Because it moved over the mountains of puerto rico. The eye is leaving the island. Its moving to the north and northwest. Still affecting the island of hurricaneforce and Tropical Stormforce winds. Its not as large as irma was but its the tenth most intense for the atlantic on record. A central pressure of 906 millibars last night. Looking closer, you see the eye diminishing as it passes to the southwest of st. Croix. Right over the central portion of puerto rico. And now out off to the north and west of puerto rico. So lets go ahead and look at where this is headed now. It has its eyes on the turks and caicos and bahamas. This is going to restrengthen. It looks like the eye it trying to reform. Its expected to be a category 4 as it approaches the turks and ca caicos. Then out into the atlantic. It will be a 4. Its not expected to come near florida. It will diminish to a 3 and then a 2 and sail north right along the east coast but staying offshore. Thats the expected track. Lets watch it at the bottom of the screen. The time line. Here we go. Sunday, monday. Into tuesday, wednesday. Now its off the carolinas on wednesday. Theyll feel the force of this. At least Tropical Storm force winds. It passes us, and by next friday is could make landfall as a weak system up in halifax towards nova scotia. Well talk about it more in a few minutes. Many families are waiting for updates from loved ones in the path of maria and puerto rico. The entire island lost power, cutting off communications. Aaron baskerville is live here. Reporter we are inside kensington, one of the many places dealing with the issues over in puerto rico. I am talking about nearly two dozen workers here have families over there. They say the same thing. Early this morning they were able to talk to them. Since then everything has been cut off. Take a look around here. Some of the customers are dealing with the same issues. They have been watching the television. Every second they can. On the screen now is mexico and the earthquake. They have been going back and forth with whats going on over there with the hurricane. If we look at this bucket, you will see it inside this store and others in the area. Theyre asking for donations. That was for irma. Of course theyll do the same thing for maria. Like you said, the main issue today is communication. Its been a constant struggle this afternoon for eduardo begins le gonzalez. He is trying to get updates from his sister and nephew living in puerto rico. 20 minutes outside san juan. Communication is very slow as he holds on to an earlymorning text. So far we have been able to communicate for a short period of time. I know so far theyre okay, theyre scared. Reporter he is not the only one having trouble talking with family battling maria. Families tell us land lines are down and cellphone towers are having issues. Include Philadelphia Police captain javier rodriguez. When i dial out there is no ring tone at all. Reporter were told some families will try to evacuate to philadelphia, getting far away from the devastation, since it could take months to rebuild. At least one City Council Member is giving notice. Weve seen a growing migration of Puerto Ricans to philadelphia and we expect it to grow. Its important to reach out to the government and mayor about how to help american citizens in puerto rico. Reporter gonzalez already tried to get his family out of harms way but that did not work out. Actually, we thought about that. Everything was booked. There was so empty planes coming out of puerto rico. Aaron baskerville reporting. Closer to home, emergency repairs at jersey beaches are under way after taking a beating from jose. We captured massive waves crashing over the seawall on jfk beach drive in north wildwood. They caused severe damage. Part of a protective sand dune is now virtually gone after being washed away. Each of those storms has its own personality. The personality of this storm was really big waves. Theyre the biggest waves ive ever seen. How the city is eyeing a more permanent fix that would be better at manager future storms. Why has this been such an active Hurricane Season . Tammie souza answers that question in her blog. Read it right now on the nbc bay area app. Mexico is still reeling after a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake rocked its largest city yesterday killing more than 200 people. Rosemary connors is live in the breaking news center with more. Mexicos president is calling for three days of National Mourning following the killer earthquake. Here is what we know right now. Rescue crews are still sifting through the rubble of collapsed homes, schools and businesses. The death toll stands at 225 and continues to rise as crews find more bodies. This is the deadliest earthquake in mexico since 1985. Earlier today mexicos president visited a school that collapsed during yesterdays earthquake. A pile of concrete slabs is all thats left of the threestory building. Crews recovered 25 bodies from the wreckage here. 21 of them were children. All over the world people are praying for the victims. Pope francis this morning led tens of thousands of people in prayer. The pope acknowledged the mexican pilgrims who were at the vatican today. Out of our nations capitol, the white house says President Trump had a lengthy conversation today with mexicos president. Yesterday President Trump publicly offered his condolences and said the American People are with mexico. Live in the breaking news center, i am Rosemary Connors, nbc10 news. Nbc10s tim furlong spoke with people worried about their loved ones in mexico city. Hell have that story at 4 30. Were following breaking news out of salem county. You can see the water still on the road there. Police said they had to rescue someone out of the car. The water was previously up to its doors. It has since, again, gone down. Well continue to follow the breaking news, bringing you any new information as soon as we get it. Were following breaking news of a School Shooting inside a high school in illinois. One person was shot and another person is in custody. It happened just before noon at a school three hours south of chicago. Police say several shots were fired but only one person was hit. Were working to find out the condition of the victim and what started it all. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a truck stuck on the borard walk at the jersey shore. Crews had to step in. The truck driver drove more than two miles down the board walk from Atlantic City to ventner before the truck got truck. Ted greenberg found out how it ended up on the boardwalk in the first place. Reporter a very bizarre site. I have never seen anything like that. Its crazy. Reporter that made many do a double take. I had to start asking questions. What the heck is going on here . Reporter an 18,000 pound tractortrailer stuck on the wooden way early this morning after driving nearly the entire length of the citys boardwalk. The truck, way too big to then get off. The driver, in his words, made a wrong turn. Reporter Police Believe the big rig came onto the boardwalk on albany avenue in Atlantic City. It kept rolling that way, a total of two and a half miles. We thought, well, maybe their gps told them to go the wrong way. Reporter how did this happen . No comment. Reporter why did you drive on the boardwalk . No comment, please. Reporter public works crews were busy for three hours dismantling railings. Piling up sand and putting down planks to create a wider exit, first for the cab and then the trailer with the help of a towing company. The driver, whose destination was unclear, is being ticketed. He. Just a bad judgment call. He let it get carried away. Reporter Authorities Say it left no visible damage. A Structural Engineer will check to make sure. A boardwalk with pieces now put back together after a drivers heavyduty mistake. Ted greenberg, nbc10 news. 12 workers were hospitalized after a hazmat situation at a Chester County mushroom facility. The building was evacuated. The source of the spill was quickly contained. Just in to nbc10 the fan convicted of sexually assault. Lee kaplan was convicted and according to prosecutors the girls parents gifted their daughters to kaplan because he helped the family out of financial ruin. The parents were each sentenced to up to seven years in prison for child endangerment. Lee kaplan will spend the next 30 to 87 years in prison. President trump is meeting with british Prime Minister theresa may in new york a week after the london subway explosion. Meantime, during a meeting with palestinian authorities president mahmoud abbas. The president said he has reached a decision on whether to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal but wont say what it is. Trump said he is hoping to reach a deal for peace in the middle east. I think we have a very, very good chance, and i certainly will devote everything within within my heart and within my soul to get that deal made. President trump has until october 15th to certify that iran is complying with the deal. Under the agreement, iran has halted Nuclear Development in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. Earlier President Trump met with King Abdullah of jordan. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley defended the u. S. Policy on north korea and the president s comments about the kim regime. The defense came in an appearance on nbcs today show this morning. We have lots of military options. Its not to go straight to destruction of north korea but we will not be intimidated. We will not be threatened, and we have to protect the American People. President trump spoke to the General Assembly yesterday and vowed that he would totally destroy north korea if forced to defend the u. S. Or its allies. The attorney for the man charged with killing a Temple University student earlier this month says his client didnt cause the victim any harm. Jenna burleigh vanished at the end of august, last seen leaving a bar near the campus with the 29yearold. Her body found on property belonging to his grandmother. He was due in court for a preliminary hearing but the case was continued until late november. Still no classes for 5,000 students in Montgomery County school district. Teachers walked off the job monday. The school board asked Union Officials to join them in arbitration to hopefully quickly work out an agreement. The district has the day off for the jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah tomorrow. Prosecutors are trying to prove the democrat tried to hide free flights and other gifts from a wealthy donor. They showed a clip of an interview menendez gave as well as a news release from his office. Menendez said he only took a few flights on the donors plane but prosecutors say he took many more. Menendez is charged with accepting favors in exchange for political influence. Black eye for pennsylvania as the nearly threemonth budget stealmate between lawmakers and the off governor drags on. The downgrade of the debt means the state about pay more to borrow money. The house and senate are divided over whether to raise taxes as lawmakers look to borrow money to help to bail the state out of a more than 2 billion deficit. The number of opioid induced deaths in philadelphia is skyrocketing. The city is offering free training to anyone interested in learning how to properly use the lifesaving overdose antidote narcan. Training will happen once a month through the end of the year. The city is on pace to record more than 1200 Drug Overdose deaths this year. In Montgomery County the frontier bus depot is getting a 12 million facelift. The hub will get a number of upgrades designed to make it safer and more energy efficient. Act 89 which uses Capital Funds for transportation improvements throughout the state is funding the project. The Community College of philadelphia and cookstown university are joining forces. The schools signed a deal to enter into a dual admissions transfer partnership. That means cooks town agrees to streamline the transfer process and accept Community College students. Ccp has partnerships with 14 colleges and universities across the region. The jewish new year Rosh Hashanah at sundown tonight. The high holiday starts a tenday period of prayer and personal reflection. This Rosh Hashanah marks the year 5778 on the hebrew calendar. Many jews celebrate with traditional food including apples dipped in honey for a sweet year. We continue to get new information on hurricane maria. Right now the storm is battering puerto rico. People took cover wherever they could as winds topped 155 Miles Per Hour today. In one town 80 of the homes are damaged. Even Emergency Centers were not spared. A hospital lost its roof. In some area communication with First Responders is down. Brian mendosa from our sister station is in san juan. He and his photographer have been taking shelter but were able to file this report moments ago. Reporter we have been driving around san juan and we have been seeing a lot of damage. I want to show you some of what weve seen so far. This metal door was yanked away. You see the damage there. I want to show you this window on this building. Broken away. Water has gone inside the building. There is a metal tube that seems to have went through the windowo and broken it. Power lines are dangling. Tree limbs on the ground. Those are just a few of the damages here in san juan, puerto rico. Well continue driving around the area. We want to get to residents and see what they have gone through, speak to them, hear their stories, and we will bring that over to you once we have that coverage. Now, look at this car just going through the water. Power lines on the floor, a very dangerous situation for the people here in san juan, but thats just going to be some of the things that well continue seeing throughout the days to come. Now, were going to bring you the latest. Well keep driving around and bring you the latest from san juan in puerto rico. Brian mendosa, nbc news. We know well see more damage as a the dies go on. 100 of the island without power. So many people from the Virgin Islands fled to puerto rico. Now Puerto Rico Needs water and they gave it to the Virgin Islands last week. They have not had a double hit by a major hurricane in about 118 years. Many records are being shattered or pushed to the limits. It was so good to see brian standing there and that he was doing well, i have to to tell you, the major part of this storm is moving to the north and west offshore. Still, there are hurricaneforce winds. Its like standing in an ef4 tornado for hour after hour. Thats why you see so much damage and its so widespread. This is moving to the north and west. The eye is starting to reform. The eye disappears as it moves across the mountains. Its starting to reintensify. Its expected to become a category 4 storm again with winds as high as 156 miles an hour. It could even surpass that. 115mileanhour winds now. Pressure up to 961 from 906 making it the tenth most intense storm ever in the atlantic basin. A 4 as it would cross the turks and caicos tomorrow. Off the east coast by monday. It looks like it will head toward our area by perhaps tuesday. Lets look at the spaghetti models. You can see, there they go. They bring it in consensus. A few want to turn it inland. The cone is not having to do with that at this point. Hurricane maria, 111, 129mileanhour winds, cat 3. Second to be up between 130 and 156mileanhour winds. Its headed north along the u. S. East coast. The tenth most intense hurricane on record in the atlantic as of now. There is still a problem off our coast, thats jose. Jose will be lurking off the east coast for the next several days straight. You see an the radar and satellite right now, as weve been seeing through much of the day, clouds overhead along the coastline. Some of us are looking at nice, sunny conditions. Pulling this out wider, there is the center of jose. Still some rain through the radar mostly outside of cape cod but everyone else has really been dry today. Thats going to be the case for the next several days. High pressure will start to build in from the west, and that will dry us up. Lets track jose. This is a very interesting cone. Through thursday so from today to tomorrow afternoon. It will hook farther east and then wrap back around and move back in our direction. It will weaken as well. You see the l, indicating weakening. As it does well see the High Pressure building over our area. Which will start bumping up our temperatures in the next few days. Keeping us dry. 87. Mid 80s over the Lehigh Valley and burks county. New jersey, mix of clouds and sunshine. The shore low 80s. Looks better but still likely a high rip current risk. Delaware, mid to upper 80s too. Looking at nice temperatures tomorrow. In the next half hour well see how long the long stretch lasts. The flyers take the ice tonight to start the preseason but not at the wells fargo center. The games strategic location is part of a business boom in the Lehigh Valley. A completely different world than it was five years ago. Still ahead at 4 00. How the ppl center is bringing in big names and events and changing the economic landscape of the Lehigh Valley. Plus, communication cut off. Local Families Watch