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helping a woman in the floodwaters. an official says 1,000 people have been rescued so far, and more resources are on their way from the u.s. mainland into puerto rico. an official now saying that some areas have seen record levels of water. more rainfall and rivers even higher than after hurricane maria. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather center for us, but first, let's go live to puerto rico and cnn's leyla santiago, and you're there on the ground. what are you seeing? >> well, we're in the northeastern part of the island, but i just got back from the southern part of the ...

Flooding and the landslides, the power. the power outages. nearly this entire island is without power. 66% of water customers, according to government website, without water. so once again, they are reliving much of what was lived through after hurricane maria, and the issue many of it -- much of it, is it's not over yet. if you think about this historically as i have covered storms here before, another problem that's going to happen is you're going to start to see the runoff from the mountains also impacting the people that rim pacted by the coast, by swelling rivers, by mudslides, by landsli...

>> once you get started with the celebrations on the street and activities, then it's going to bring foot traffic in, and then these businesses are going to flourish. >> reporter: here's one idea. let those privately owned restaurants stay on this public land but make them pay a fee. some industry folks think that might work because they know even for restaurant owners there's no free lunch. pam. >> >> there's no free lunch. don't we know that, but it's not just impacts that rim pacted. >> they have opened up spaces all over the country for all sorts of things, museums and park space and peopl...

Sitting on quite a bit of carry forward funds, and they could go out longer without being impacted and some have none, so they rim pacted immediately. so there is no real individual answer to that. >> and the president still going to davos if monday morning the government is shutdown? >> we talked about this beforehand that the president will not be going to florida now sh now, and we are taking davos from the president's perspective and the cabinet perspective on a day by day basis. >> and obviously, the democrats, if you are not going to be talking about immigration now, but after the govern...

To the south is the arkansas river, and 230 t nnd to the nor east are fields, but as i say, faulkner county is the most unlu unluckiest place right now with two towns sadly suffering. >> and charles, looking at the damage in this video, what are they doing as far as people in shelter, and accommodations, and this is still early, and it is still sinking in the reality of what is happening there, and the children and the other folks who rim pacted and what is the shelter right now? >> well, the operation right now is search and rescue, and even the residents who live there cannot get in, because...