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school libraries and reading lists in more districts and states, according to a new report. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. hurricane fiona wreaking havoc on several caribbean islands. the storm made landfall as a category 1, but expected to become a major hurricane after it hit puerto rico on sunday, knocking out the entire power grid there. puerto rico, still recoverining from hurricane maria in 2017, is suffering catastrophic flooding. you can see this bridge, which was rebuilt after hurricane maria, being swept away by the rushing waters. another river, rising to 29 feet, surpassing the record set in 2017. we re going to start our coverage with laila santiago, in part rico, where most communities are still struggling without power. reporter: almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slam into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastroph ....
Stayed behind? and what s the terrain like in morgan city? will emergency crews, first responders be able to get to your residents who did stay behind? yeah, we re not worried. we have a good levee system and a really good pumping system. we re not worried about that. first responders might have to cut their way through to them through the trees if too many trees have fallen. what are you telling your residents if they call for an emergency, call 911. do they have to wait it out or can your crews still get out at this point? what is the guidance you re giving residents? it s completely up to the fire department. if the fire department says they can go and they want to go they ll go. right now, they ll go. but if it gets much worse, they ll not be able to go. you can t put all of our equipment and all of our people in harm s way, you know. we re not going to do that. if the fire chief says no, it s ....
Crews, emergency responders are not out right now because they re trying to keep themselves safe and then they ll go out and help people when they can. jim? and what can you tell us about the can you tell us more about that building just to the side of you where you can see the awning. the awning or umbrellas have been ripped off of that rooftop restaurant there? did that just happen in the last couple of minutes? does that go to how serious this is becoming? yeah, this is something that has only gotten worse. when we arrived maybe 20 minutes ago, still portions of the awning were attached to the building. now you can see it s all the way ripped off and lying on the side of that railing there. the railing isn t going to hold it up forever, right? especially knowing that the worst of ida is yet to come. so that will likely come down. this part of town is used to having those power outages because it s an older part of town, because they have large trees. some of these buildings, t ....