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helping a woman in the floodwaters. an official says 1,000 people have been rescued so far, and more resources are on their way from the u.s. mainland into puerto rico. an official now saying that some areas have seen record levels of water. more rainfall and rivers even higher than after hurricane maria. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather center for us, but first, let s go live to puerto rico and cnn s leyla santiago, and you re there on the ground. what are you seeing? well, we re in the northeastern part of the island, but i just got back from the southern part of the island, which was really hit hard, and i guess the story right now is that there are catastrophic floods. this has already taken an impact. and it is not over yet. i want to show you video and talk to you about what i saw. this was an area where the national guard had to rescue people overnight. i talked to the mayor. she said they have more than 2,000 families that have been impacted by this ....
Infrastructure that you talked about being impacted by this storm. leyla will continue to do her work. we ll check back as she continues to gather news from puerto rico and fiona that s continuing to wreak havoc there. let s go to jennifer gray in our weather center to get a better sense of how long puerto rico is going to feel the impact and where fiona is right now. well, ana, puerto rico is positioned in the most unfortunate part of the storm because we re seeing fiona drift away from puerto rico. it s actually north of the dominican republic right now, but where these outer rain bands of the storm have set up are basically right over puerto rico. and have been over the last day or so. now, we re seeing rainfall rates at 2 to 3 inches an hour. you can see those bands of the rain that s just going from south to north. some of these areas have already received more than two feet of water and more rain is on the way. so we do have these flash flood warnings in place near ponce, 27 ....