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By Don Burgess and Ivelisse Rivera HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) -Bermudians boarded up windows and stocked up on groceries and flashlight batteries as
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -Hurricane Fiona strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday as it headed toward Bermuda after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where the storm left most people without power and up to eight dead.
Hurricane Fiona has been elevated to a Category 4 storm after it tore through the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where 3.2 million are still without power.
National Guard troops have rescued more than 900 people, some from the roofs of their home in Puerto Rico. Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Dominican Republican on Monday.
The Dominican Republic will be battered with 'extremely heavy rainfall' today, in addition to winds as high as 90 mph, according to Eric Blake of the U.S. National Hurricane Center.