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Worst case scenario as the storm moves through the caribbean. it's battering st. croix with wind gusts and heavy rain. maria is a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 281 kilometers per hour. at least one person has been killed in guadeloupe and there's widespread damage in dominique. and now puerto rico just hours away from what could be a direct hit from mae roria. right now, meteorologist derek vandam in san juan, puerto rico joins us live. expecting this storm to make landfall as a category 5. is there any expectation that maybe the intensity will weaken a little? >> reporter: well, jo...

Good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. and as we begin another week together here, two hurricanes we are watching very closely at this hour. the first one, hitting right now. you can see there jose, hugging the u.s. coastline. dangerous winds, rip currents. and then look there over the caribbean. that's hurricane maria. potentially catastrophic. late today, bearing down on some of the same islands just now recovering from irma. the outer bands already battering st. lucia. puerto rico bracing for a direct hit. in some places, so much destruction already from ir...