Officials say they will need help from the mainland. Remember that you are part of us, even if you are not here. Dont forget us. An emotional plea. I am concerned that we may not get to everybody in time. In the face of an unforgettable tragic storm. Lets get over to nbc10 first alert meteorologist tammie souza. The storm has been downgraded to a category 2. Dont get too excited about that. It has spread out in size and the eye is moving offshore to the north and west of puerto rico trying to restrengthen. Here is a closer look. The big eye is moving right by st. Croix. We dont have pictures from there yet but i think there is probably a lot of devastation on st. Croix. As it moves across puerto rico you see the eye disappearing, it downgraded from a category 4 to a category 3 and now a category 2. It has probably another, oh, 12 hours or so before it will start to reintensify. A couple things about it. It has winds between 96 and 110 miles an hour. Its expected to restrengthen. The winds then would be maybe 130 to 156 miles an hour. Headed towards the turks and caicos. It will move along the Northern Edge of the Dominican Republic and turn north along the eastern seaboard. It should stay offshore. Its the tenth most intense atlantic hurricane in the Atlantic Basin with a central pressure of 906 and the winds were 175. This was last night. That means it is more intense than irma was. Its not as big as irma, but the intensity plays a big role. The pressure will dictate how strong this will be. 110mileanhour winds moving northwest at 12 miles an hour. Restrengthening to a 3 or 4 of the move past the turks and caicos. Move clear of the bahamas. Clear of bermuda. Off the east coast by monday and then continuing on a north and northeast track. Lets look at the european model. This is hour by hour. Look at where it goes. How does this affect us . It doesnt come on shore near us, but it could bring rain, especially to south jersey by the time we get into a week from tomorrow. So well keep an eye on that. Well probably be dealing with a lot of high surf associated with this system. Thats something well watch very closely. Here again is a look kind of at the whole wider scheme of things as it moves up the east coast. You can get a pretty good eye on whats going on. Its expected to stay offshore and make a turn then perhaps make a bee line toward halifax as a weak Tropical Storm or maybe post tropical at that point. Well keep a close eye on this. More on whats going on with that and crystal will be up with our forecast, our weekend forecast and what jose is doing off of our shoreline. Guys. Now to mexico where more than 50 people have been pulled from the rubble. Tonight residents of mexico city are recovering from the powerful earthquake that killed hundreds. Jacqueline london is live in the breaking news center with an update. Its a race against time right now after the earthquake killed at least 225 people. A survivor was pulled from the rubble at a school here in mexico city. That school collapsed during the earthquake. 25 people died in that elementary school, 21 of them were children. There are still 30 people unaccounted for in that collapsed building. Take a look at this widespread panic inside the Telemundo News room. And offices in mexico city. You are hearing the sirens going off and people scrambling to evacuate the building. Crews have been asking for silence in the streets just so they can hear anyone crying for help. Live in the breaking news center, jacqueline london, nbc10 news. Check cashing confusion. Local telemarketing employees claim they cannot cash their paychecks from a south jersey based firm. They voiced concerns on social media. Once we saw the video we went to get answers. Nbc10s reporter cydney long is live to fill us in. Reporter its been confusing and frustrating for brandnew employees. It was a mess enough for telepoint communications located just across the street in cherry hill to call on Cherry Hill Police last night to calm down some very upset workers. When we saw this video. If you have a check you have to leave. Reporter the hallway and lobby area filled with upset workers. We went to the company to find out what was going on. We spoke to people impacted like this mom of willingboro. Many people are depending on this job because we have bills, mortgages, car payments. Kids. Reporter she was here last night when other upset workers posted this cellphone video to facebook. The cops were called. The owner left because he didnt want to deal with it. Reporter the police were back again today. Ownership advised that you do not enter the building. Reporter moments after we were asked to leave, the president responded to my email with a phone call. He first advised there might have been a watermark issue on checks and then told me we hired 1,000 people and had a late payroll yesterday. It was so overwhelming that it required handwritten checks. They said theyre doing personal checks. You take them to the bank and theyre bouncing. Reporter we spoke to usa payroll which confirmed telepoint had a late payroll. They suggest telepoint whose accounts are full and checks should be honored. Were sitting on the phone for hours being cursed out by people we dont know. Reporter the glitch to an undetermined amount of brandnew employees says might be due to invalid i. D. S or checkcashing companies who decided to not honor them. Both telepoint and usa payroll consider this an isolated incident. Both took ample time with us by phone and email and promised the paychecks are valid and the funds are available. They advised those who were affected to dedeposredeposit th checks. Well follow this one. Thanks. He did not harm her. Thats what the lawyer representing the suspect charged with the murder of a Temple University student says he told him. In court today the attorney said he could not talk about what happened the night jenna bur lea burleigh died. His attorney asked for more time to investigate the case. A 21yearold man accused of robbing his former nextdoor neighbor is behind bars. He is charged with several offenses including robbery. Police say he entered the home of his former roxborough neighbors and tied up and beat a 75yearold man and stole a womans purse and car keys while she slept. The mans injuries landed him in the icu. Violence on a septa train. Philly Police Looking for a group of women who punched another and robbed another of her iphone. The suspect left the exit around 3 30 in the afternoon. So far no arrests. The number of opioid deaths in philadelphia is sky rocketing. The city is offering free training to anyone interested in learning how to properly use the antidote narcan. Training kicked after at Community Behavioral health in center city and it will continue once a month through the end of the year. The city is on pace to record more than 1200 Overdose Deaths this year. A Jewelry Store thief is on the run. Police say the man robbed gallagher jewelers in newark around noon yesterday. He made off with jewelry and cash. Investigators have a vague description of the suspect. They say he is missing some teeth. Witnesses saw him getting away in a silver suv. Another black eye for pennsylvania as the nearly threemonth budget stalemate between lawmakers and the governor pours on. Standard poors has lowered its rating on pennsylvanias date. The state house and senate are divided over whether to raise taxes. Lawmakers are looking to borrow money to help bail the state out of a more than 2 billion deficit. An abandoned building that used to be a hat factory gets new life in center city. A developer plans to restore the former frank p. Heid and company hat factory. It will become a 96unit apartment building. The nearly centuryold building will feature a ground floor restaurant, a roof deck and a hammock lounge. The developer is offering internships to Benjamin FranklinSchool Students to learn more about real estate development. This afternoon we continue to follow the latest developments out of mexico following the deadly earthquake. We take you to one of the hardest hit areas where rescuers are digging through the rubble right now to find survivors. Plus, cleanup along the jersey shore. How one area is planning to bounce back after hurricane joee left a mess behind. Then, lost and found. How a Police Officer reunited a woman with her last wedding ring. Next at 5 00. Day 13. If only this were as easy as saving 600 when you switch to progressive. Winds stirring. Too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, ive taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. But the prize at the top is worth every last breath. Here we go. [ grunts ] got em. Ahh. Wait a minute. Whole wheat waffles . [ crying ] why on his second day at the united nations, President Donald Trump focused on terrorism and middle east peace. Today the president said peace between israelis and palestinians is the toughest deal he has ever had to negotiate but said there is a pretty good shot it could happen. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said it would be the, quote, deal of the century. There can be no promises. So many people have talked about it, and its never happened. Afterward the president met african leaders. Englands Prime Minister and the president of egypt. Tonight Hurricane Maria is moving away from the island of puerto rico, and people are starting to post videos of the damage to social media. Maria hit puerto rico as a category 4 storm. Right now the entire island is without power. Here are some of the video clips that weve been keeping an eye on online. You can see how powerful the winds are. Over 150 miles an hour. Residents have been warned that these winds will continue for the next 12 to 24 hours. You can see, again, damage, destruction, debris flying around. There is also a curfew in effect running from 6 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. Officials in puerto rico want to make sure that any residents who are riding out the storm stay inside in the overnight hours because of the debris that could be picking up. The flooding. This is going to be a concern for the next days, weeks to come. As we mentioned earlier in the news cast today, the governor of puerto rico asked President Trump to declare the area a disaster zone. That way they can get federal aid sooner rather than later. Were keeping an eye on other tropical activity. Turning now to hurricane jose. You probably wouldnt know it by stepping outside today, but the storm is still churning off the east coast. Along the jersey shore, the sun, it is shining again. This video into the nbc10 newsroom from North Wildwood where jose caused beach erosion. Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg will explain how bad it is. Thats coming up at 5 30. Lets like a live look at the beach in avalon toward the pier at 30th street. A different picture from this time yesterday. Still some clouds out there, but this time 24 hours ago it was gray and dark. Were getting a bit of sunshine. Nbc10 meteorologist crystal cline joins us with how long the summer weather will last. Fall officially starts on friday and it wont feel like fall. Radar and satellite. This is the center of whats left of jose a Tropical Storm churning out to sea. We have gotten some of the clouds throughout today but no rain in our forecast. Still a bit of rough seas along the shoreline. There is still a high rip current risk thats likely to stick for the next few days. Tonight as we hit the high tide between 8 30 and 9 00 p. M. Along the shore points we still could see minor coastal flooding. But thats it for jose. Looking at jose here through tomorrow evening, it will start to move farther to the east. This is the latest updated track from the National Hurricane center. Watch what happens. It starts to loop back around over the weekend into monday. It looks like its heading our direction. Here is the thing. It will weaken considerably as it starts to track our way. High pressure over the weekend will actually build over us, which means well start warming up and well see more sunshine making it feel summerlike instead of fallike. Tomorrow a high of 87 in fairmount. Langhorne, high of 85. East end, high of 86. Were not going to be feeling jose tomorrow. Sunny conditions. Low 80s. While it might look inviting at the shore, well still have the moderate to high rip current risk due to the fact that jose is lurking to the east. Delaware, dover, your high 85 degrees for tomorrow. Then lets jump to your weekend. Still very warm. Slightly cooler on friday. Low 80s across the board. Partly cloudy conditionsme. Saturday and sunday. With the high building in, it wont let jose move in at all. Were looking at temperatures to warm up to 87 saturday and 88 on sunday. Thats way warmer than average. About 10 degrees so. Areas like the suburbs. 88. Lehigh valley 86. At the shore well stay right in the low 80s. Mostly sunny. On the tropical satellite view. Maria again. Maria is lifting off the land over puerto rico and will start to make the drive along the Northern Edge of hispaniola before it edges north. Lets look at the spaghetti plots. The computer models indicating where the projected path is for maria. By friday it may be over turks and caicos. Remember turks and caicos was destroyed by irma, so this is a terrible situation for some of these smaller islands. It takes a similar track to joee where it hooks to the north and begins to run parallel to the east coast. Sunday through monday and tuesday. Now, remember, i said jose would be trying to move our way by monday, tuesday as well. Now we have maria coming this way and jose going this way. Jose will considerably weaken. The question is where will maria go. Its a little too far out to pinpoint for sure if we could see some of the showers. We do know the temperatures are very warm for this time of year. In the 80s. Though fall officially starts friday. The eagles game, it will be a dry one, near 90. Still 80s near next week. Slightens cha of a shower monday thanks to the lingering moisture from jose. Your next pair of glasses could soon let you order stuff online or control your music. Amazon is reportedly working on smart glasses with the alexa Voice Assistant built in. The glasses would not need a pair of headphones or speakers to hear alexa. The Voice Assistant controls amazons popular echo device. The Ridesharing Service lyft is teaming up with budweiser to help combat drunk driving. Starting tomorrow lyft drivers over the age of 21 can redeem a ride credit worth 20 through the lyft app. The companies will provide 150,000 free rides across americas largest cities including philadelphia. A Music Festival is canceled. Its canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Folks who planned to go will get a refund and a discount voucher. The festival was scheduled for september 30 this. Heading to north jersey where a Police Officer saved the day after literally finding a diamond in the rough. The Police Officer found kimberly garcias Engagement Ring on the side of route 4. Garcia lost her ring yesterday while she was changing a tire on the side of the road. She went back with police later in the day. They couldnt find it. Officer john henderson, you see him right here, he spent his free patrol time looking for the ring and finally found it. I think weve all been in that situation where weve lost our wedding ring. Going above and beyond, though. Yeah. He did. Good for him. New information tonight about a nursing home where Hurricane Irma knocked out power. We have been following this story now for the past few weeks. The Police Department is calling it a criminal investigation. Well explain why. Surviving the storm. Next at 5 00. Back to puerto rico where people are working to dig through the mess Hurricane Maria is leaving behind. Today, we spend a whole lot of time like this. So at citizens bank, weve created banking tools that fit how youre living today. From advanced atms. To online banking. To our Award Winning mobile app. And if you prefer facetoface, we have that too. Ask me, terry goggans, how our balance of technology and people can help you. Hurricane maria slammed into puerto rico today as a category 4 storm. Nbc news Gabe Gutierrez is on the island showing us the deteriorated conditions. Reporter puerto rico is suffering a direct hit from Hurricane Maria. Here in san juan we have seen torrential rain and pounding winds throughout the morning. Already now for several hours. The full extent of the damage has yet to be known, but san juans mayor is painting a dire picture. She says half of the city of san juan is flooded, that there have been gas stations ripped apart. We have seen debris throughout the streets, trees toppled and parts of buildings blown off. The concern right now is the storm surge here but also the effect on this islands power grid. Much of the island is without power, virtually all of it at this point, and this comes just days after Hurricane Irma delivered a glancing blow here but cut off power to about 75 of the island. You can see behind me that the winds are still heavy at this point. We are being spared the worst of it because of a concrete structure right here thats blocking the worst of these winds. But this is expected to continue for several more hours. Maria making landfall here in puerto rico as a category 4 storm in the southeast part of the island. Now working its way past this island. But again, the governor here says that this could be a catastrophic event. More than 10,000 people are in shelters. At least thats the reported number. But its expected by authorities that the real number is much higher. The concern now is for those people who lived in wooden structures and in floodprone are