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Also, we have new information about the man charged with murdering a Temple University student. But the big story on action news is Hurricane Maria making landfall in puerto rico. The island is getting pummeled with lifethreatening winds and widespread flooding. As maria slowly crosses the u. S. Territory its toppling cell phone towers and snapping trees and tearing off rooftops. Thousands of residents fled their homes for the safety of shelters. And hotel guests were forced into hallways to stay safe from the storm. Reporter sara, Hurricane Maria is blamed for death and destruction in the car...

It is still several hours from high tide and water is lapping against the mounding of sand that bulldozers pushed up here to reenforce what is left of the dunes behind me where you see those big cliffs, joses gone but the storm left lots to clean up. Nature made a withdraw in a North Wildwood man was working to redeposit sand that erode add way while remnants of jose passed off shore this week. Is what left of the beach is same but probably dropped down. Sand is hard now. Reporter at tenth street in avalon it created mounds and gully close to the slow water lied. Storm surge pushed it back a f...

This storm is smaller in size but its based on the central pressure. I have to tell you it was st. Croix and the islands around and puerto rico itself that bore the brunt of this huge storm. Look at the eye. It falls apart as it moves across the mountains. On the other side of puerto rico there it is. The eye is trying to reform. That means this storm is trying to restrengthen. Lets look at maria. It will be expected to restrengthen to 130 to 156mileanhour winds. Its headed toward the turks and caicos. It will graze the northern side of the Dominican Republic and then north along the eastern c...

About their loved ones stuck in this storm. Reporter that is right brian. Before this well thing is over at least a foot of rainfall will be dumped on puerto rico and that is after this hurricane devastated other smaller islands including dominica. Melissa is from allentown but attending medical school on the island of dominica. And the last time she spoke with her daughter was monday night a short time before the storm made landfall. Now that she is out of the way she is stressful not knowing what the situation it like. Nor is she safe or any of the kids safe . Of course Hurricane Maria set i...

, going to be very hard. Reporter evacuees at this help tell had to move down stores in the lobby, and then an emergency stairwell. Powers out across the island and there is no timetable forgetting lights back on. Maria have been final blow to the power companys already crumbling infrastructure. We are getting our first look at island of dominica1 of the first stops in the caribbean. The storm turned deadly there and knock out communications the to entire island. People are cleaning up on the island of quadloop where maria also claim lives and damaged home. David begnoit, cbs news, san juan, p...