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The #patricia. you're looking at images of that right there. and then, you know, john, one of the most touching parts of the storm is watching all of this support. you're seeing people use t the #prayformexico. one tweet that's particularly interesting. astronaut scott kelly, he's tweeting from space as you guys have probably mentioned earlier, showing images. he says patricia's force isn't lost on me. my thoughts are with friends and all in mexico and he's signing off from space saying good night. you also have relief here. they're putting out video, shocking shid owe saying this is right as ...

guadalajara which is about a four-hour drive from here. since then we've had inclement weather, lots of rain. thankfully in this part of the region, john, not much damage. we're hoping within the next 24 to 48 hours to return to the property, but that's about an update down here. >> you say the guests made the trip to safety but i guess the staff stayed behind along with yourself. can you explain what it was like? i imagine you're expecting the worst and when that didn't happen, clearly there must have been a huge amount of relief. >> yeah. it was hearing all the forecasts and what was pot...

I'm john voros. patricia has now weakened to a category 2 storm with sustained winds of up to 165 kilometers per hour and earlier nasa released these still shots of patricia as it closed in on mexico as a record-breaking category 5 storm. you u can see the eye with the intense rain wrapped around it. earlier we heard from a u.s. air force pilot who flew inside the hurricane to report its wind speed. >> there's a lot of rain associated with the storm obviously. the eye was very well defined and very well wrapped around, i guess you could say.

Welcome back, everyone, to our special coverage of hurricane patricia, which has now been downgraded to a category 1 hurricane as the storm loses steam over mexico's mountainous regions. it hit the country's pacific coast on friday without much warning as a category 5 storm, which, of course, is the fierce effort category. thousands of people have been forced from their homes. others decided to wait it out. mexico's president says so far damage has been much less than feared. mudslides are a main concern as heavy rain continues to fall. let's bring in our own john vause once more for the lates...

Disaster, social media has been really important in getting word out, tweeting maps of shelters o so people have an idea where to go. oftentimes when people don't know where to turn, they go to their devices, facebook and twitter and that's where the messages are getting out, john. >> reporter: it's become so important, so much more so than you could have imagined a few years ago. laurie, thanks so much for that. of course, we'll have much more coverage of patricia in the coming hours. in the meantime let's go back to our london studios and fred. >> thank you so much, john voros, in mexico. th...