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helping a woman in the floodwaters. an official says 1,000 people have been rescued so far, and more resources are on their way from the u.s. mainland into puerto rico. an official now saying that some areas have seen record levels of water. more rainfall and rivers even higher than after hurricane maria. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather center for us, but first, lets go live to puerto rico and cnns leyla santiago, and youre there on the ground. what are you seeing? >> well,...

Flooding and the landslides, the power. the power outages. nearly this entire island is without power. 66% of water customers, according to government website, without water. so once again, they are reliving much of what was lived through after hurricane maria, and the issue many of it -- much of it, is its not over yet. if you think about this historically as i have covered storms here before, another problem thats going to happen is youre going to start to see the runoff from the mountains als...

>> once you get started with the celebrations on the street and activities, then its going to bring foot traffic in, and then these businesses are going to flourish. >> reporter: heres one idea. let those privately owned restaurants stay on this public land but make them pay a fee. some industry folks think that might work because they know even for restaurant owners theres no free lunch. pam. >> >> theres no free lunch. dont we know that, but its not just impacts that rim pacted. >> they have o...

Sitting on quite a bit of carry forward funds, and they could go out longer without being impacted and some have none, so they rim pacted immediately. so there is no real individual answer to that. >> and the president still going to davos if monday morning the government is shutdown? >> we talked about this beforehand that the president will not be going to florida now sh now, and we are taking davos from the presidents perspective and the cabinet perspective on a day by day basis. >> and obvio...

To the south is the arkansas river, and 230 t nnd to the nor east are fields, but as i say, faulkner county is the most unlu unluckiest place right now with two towns sadly suffering. >> and charles, looking at the damage in this video, what are they doing as far as people in shelter, and accommodations, and this is still early, and it is still sinking in the reality of what is happening there, and the children and the other folks who rim pacted and what is the shelter right now? >> well, the op...