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The storm will impact Puerto Rico this weekend

>> let's go to allison chinchar. >> we're starting to see showers and thunderstorms begin to appear across several areas. really that far southeastern portion of puerto rico really starting to see a lot of that cloud cover fill back in at this point. a lot of the heavy rain showers will likely continue in the next few hours. sustained winds with fiona are 60 miles per hour, gusting up to 70. we anticipate those to get a little bit stronger. that's why you have hurricane watches. that's the pink color you see for portions of the u.s. virgin islands as well as puerto rico. the blue color indicat...

This rainfall may produce considerable flood impacts including flash and urban flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain particularly southern Puerto Rico and eastern Dominican Republic.

The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and projects Fiona to become a hurricane next week.

Tropical Storm Fiona was closing in on the Leeward Islands Friday morning, and AccuWeather forecasters warned that the storm's strong winds and heavy rains would begin impacting the northeastern Caribbean by Friday night. There is the potential for Fiona to become a hurricane after turning northward next week, and one scenario could bring the storm near the United States East Coast. As of 11 a.m., Fiona, the sixth named storm of the season, was located about 135 miles east of Guadeloupe in the L