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Bearing down on port roek oe. as you mentioned massive category 5 storm, sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. already the wind has picked up here in san juan. we're getting some of the outer rain bands. this is expected to get worse throughout tomorrow morning we're expecting the height of it tomorrow. it can be a catastrophic storm. the mayor in san juan told us she did not want the u.s. mainland to forget about puerto rico. irma just grazed the island, 60,000 people are still without power. the power grid they fear could fail. there could be a massive collapse of communications, of cell ph...

Of the storm said, quote, this is about as bad as you can get. we have two reports on this storm night. one from san juan and one from the studyio. gabe i see it's hitting you with rain and wind bands. >> reporter: yeah. seems just a few days ago i was talking to you about hurricane irmaa, now hurricane maria bearing down on port roek oe. as you mentioned massive category 5 storm, sustained winds of 175 miles per hour. already the wind has picked up here in san juan. we're getting some of the outer rain bands. this is expected to get worse throughout tomorrow morning we're expecting the height...

On board a hurricane hunter aircraft traveling over the top of the storm said, quote, this is about as bad as you can get. we have two reports on this storm tonight. dave gutierrez is in san juan and our meteorologist here in the studio. gabe, you're still hours away from this, from being in the teeth of this storm. and i see it's already hitting you with rain and wind bands. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, brian. seems just a few days ago i was talking to you about hurricane irma, now hurricane maria bearing down on puerto rico. as you mentioned massive category 5 storm, sustained winds of 1...

Dominica and taking aim at puerto rico and the virgin islands. >> this is not looking like a good situation for puerto rico and our friends in the virgin islands. the storm has remained a category 5 as of the last advisory at 8:00 a.m. and the strongest winds, the storm surge are going to impact the virgin islands, british and u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico could take a direct hit. the outer rain bands moving across the caribbean with wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour and the worst will come overnight tonight. we have hurricane warnings up in the red here especially for puerto ric...

Out. and we expect a larger system by the time it impacts the new england coastline. that's for the middle of the workweek. you can see in our wind field here stretch ago good 400 to 500 miles easily. so that means cape hatteras into new jersey, boston, perhaps even new york city feeling strong, gusty winds, perhaps outer rain bands as the system finally moves in. so with ta constant flow of energy around our tropical system here, we have the potential for strom rip currents across the coast, a lot of the famous beaches there, we do expect hazardous swimming conditions over the next several da...