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Welcome back. destruction and devastation in puerto rico internationally the u.s. territory is facing a long difficult road of recovery after hurricane maria ravaged the island. a new normal. no power and running water and could last up to six months. images coming from puerto rico shows homes, streets, highways completely flooded. and with more rain expected today that could release mud slides. now joining me now from leyla from puerto rico. they issued a dire warning to a dam in the western part of puerto rico. >> reporter: right, jake, we actually watched the helicopter, which i suspect is ...

The terrain here, remember water seeks its own levels and it almost rings out the storm system taking away the available rainfall in hurricane maria and eventually filters down to the smaller streams and ultimately the larger rivers and communities below, causing landslides and mud slides. we have seen the flooded roadway, but when you get into the more rural parts, the devastation will be fierce as we start to see first daylight and head out to assess the full extent of maria's wrath. john. >> thank you for that. derek van dam with the forecast and what the people of puerto rico can expect in...

Weather service says catastrophic flooding is still ongoing. it cameoff the coast off the co worst of the winds and storm surge and heavy rain bands in the dominican republic right now. getting it worse than they thought. fear in the dominican republic and puerto rico is mud slides. you have these mountains and get a torrential amount of rain. soak them just enough. get the terrain to give away. hurricane warning continues. turk and cakes. little sliver here. looks like the main core is going to miss. it will be close enough. here is the update as far as the

We're probably going to be seeing storm surges on the western side of the island. and river and highway flood, mud slides. we've seen video of streets turned into raging, muddy rivers. highest totals 20 to 25 inches of rain out of this. as it pushes away, the impacts for the next 48 hours, for puerto rico and also for hispaniole adamaging wind, flooding rain. it's a big storm we'll show you in a second. so that rain is still going to be hanging around. dangerous seas and large swells. destructive storm surge. and look at this. so right now we've got an -- in diameter, 300 miles, the tropical f...

Jake? >> i want to turn to puerto rico and u.s. virgin islands for a second because they are also engaged in a frantic activity. preparing for a worst case scenario as a category 5 hurricane is moving closer to them. what's the latest track? >> reporter: the latest track still puts it over portions of puerto rico. the storm has intensified. now up to 165-mile-per-hour. if it stays at this current strength, it will end up being the strongest hurricane to hit puerto rico. it's already close enough now that we can actually pick up some of these outer bands on puerto rico's actual radar. >> they a...