very slowly. that s what happened to puerto rico. this storm was moving at 8 miles per hour. that is in the bottom 10% of forward speed of any hurricane ever as we list them out and that s why they picked up so much rain. that s why there was so much flooding. 32 inches. that s just one town on the south shore where you get the word san juan and it was less than 10. that s the north side. still more rain to come but probably less than a couple of inches. the storm now taking aim at the turks and caicos battering that island nation and on up towards bermuda as we work our way into the rest of the week. it s going to get stronger. this is going to be 140 mile per hour storm. right now the storm surge in the turks and caicos. up towards nova scotia. it won t be that strong. 5 to 8 feet in the low lying islands. they re only 10 feet tall. we ll be watching that. chad, thank you. hurricane fiona gathering speed as you heard chad there. it s climbing over the warm atlantic wa
raining. the outer band still lashing puerto rico. t a least four deaths reported so far. emergency crews have rescued more than 1,000 people. the efforts are still ongoing as responders try to get to people in hard to reach areas. parts of puerto rico are still recovering from hurricane maria that made landfall there five years ago today. cnn s leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you hearing? brianna and john, as i checked in with families this morning, if you were in san juan, the metropolitan area, there is a small portion of areas that have had power restored. they are getting water back this morning. but if you are in the interior, if you were on the southern coast, really hit hard by hurricane fiona, there is still no power, no water. there are still people at shelters, and there are still crews trying to get access to some areas because of that flooding. i know you went over a lot of the numbers in terms of how much water has come down, the deaths
rain on me in the rain, but what s more worth it to me is life. hurricane fiona growing even more dangerous overnight. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it s tuesday, september 20th, and i m brianna keilar with john berman. fiona is a major category 3 hurricane with 115-mile-per-hour winds. it s taken aim at turks and caicos after devastating puerto rico and the dominican republic. much of puerto rico is in the dark this morning. in the dr, more than 1 million people have no running water. the storm dumped as much as 30 inches of rain on parts of puerto rico and that triggered catastrophic flooding and mudslides and it hasn t stopped
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