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A powerful storm threatening the northeast tonight churning up the coast where 45 million people across new york and new england are under a flash flood watch and the storm comes on the fifth anniversary of super storm sandy. we're tracking this storm with cnn's polo sandoval in long beach, new york and cnn meteorologist tom sader in the weather center. po polo, what kind of conditions are you experiencing? >> reporter: well, rain mainly, a little bit of wind earlier. let me fill you in what officials are saying to expect particularly into tonight. heavy rains could possibly lead to isolated f...

Will start to churn those winds, we're talking gusts 50 to 60 to 70, maybe 75 miles per hour in higher elevations, again, not just travel problems but the warnings are out for the winds. this is going to be everiy from long island into parts of new england where again those leaves are still on the trees. thousands could lose power in addition flash flooding, 4 to 6 inches and heaviest wind is off the coast but come in tonight and overnight it is really going to start to blow. don't be surprised, the lights start to flicker if you lose power, most likely be out by morning for many locations but...

Presence there, the massive wicked waves off the coast here. that's really reminder of the potential flooding threat that we expect later today as a high tide approaches. officials saying that, yes, the wind concern is something that they worry about here t potential wind damage, but what they are especially worried about is the potential for devastating flooding, wolf, they have seen plenty of rain, particularly with irma, so the ground is definitely saturated so as we see the outer bands sweep across here then that threat of flooding is there. and as a result the entire northern coast of the...

Republic. puerto rico governor has issued a mandatory cure few from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. starting tonight. and until saturday morning. wolf, back to you. >> all right, rafael, thank you, he's in puerto rico for us. even thou even though the center of the storm, winds and rains are already lashing dominican republic. what are most at risk. >> reporter: there are many here, wolf, in the dominican republic tried to evacuate but will to come back because airports were closed. they say they will be hunkering down. they have left no choice but to ride out outer bands of the storm. meteorologist no...

Working okay. there are signals. spotty at times, but you are able to connect. the internet comes and goes, but in a city of 24 million people, this happens, and everybody is trying to do the same thing, just communicate to their family members that they are okay. >> which is totally understandable. good luck, manny, good luck to you and your family, everybody el else in your family. we'll stay on top of this earthquake, another horrendous earthquake in mexico. we are also following another major disaster, hurricane maria, now category 5 storm taking direct aim at the u.s. virgin islands and p...