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PORT AU PRINCE (Reuters) - Thousands in Haiti faced water shortages after days of protest virtually halted distribution, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, as an approaching storm caused more worry in the reeling country.
Days of protests over fuel prices and crime have slowed or halted water distribution in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.Thousands in Haiti faced water
Category i before it potentially makes landfall over puerto rico this afternoon or this evening before continuing off to the northwest toward hispaniola. rain will be one of the biggest factors with this particular storm. a lot of heavier bands starting to push out, power outages up to 100,000. you're talking 15 to 20 inches of potential rainfall. >> wow, that's a lot of rain. keep us posted. thank you very much. >> up next, a go fund me page steps in to help an iowa teen-ager who has to payay the family of an a alleged rapist. we'll have more on that coming up.
That fwf us a lod of iran -- >> eventually over areas of hispaniola, that's where we want the storm to go. it expected to become a cot degree in and you've got some pruty heavy ran wm even on the northern half of the i land where it at it frm and now you're talking about 10, 2520 inches of rain and the weather service is not even ruling out 25 inches of rain in some extremely isolated spots and the dominican republic looking at 6 to 8, maybe 10 ines of rain there. in addition you also have the
Track. you can see it makes its way along the southern edge of puerto rico, then before moving to hispaniola. by that point we anticipate this will be a category 1 hurricane and then it continues to make more of that right turn towards the north, steering it away from the u.s. mainland. now, with that said i want to caution it will still get close enough that we are likely going to have a threat for rip currents and some pretty high surf along the east coast of florida. in the short term, however, the main concern is going to be all the heavy rain across puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands...