we have a beautiful shoreline. jesse: desantis isn t going to delaware. it s not a swing state. but every news camera in the country went. have you ever seen this many reporters at the southern border? no. the flight is too far and it s dusty. you don t win pulitzers at the border plus the humidity messes up your hair. trust me, i know. the only way you can get the media to cover the border is to bring the border to the northeast where it s a short drive from all their bureaus and the journalists, quote, unquote. can be back home that night for dinner. ron desantis called them out for it earlier today. i haven t heard a peep about all the people that have been told by biden you can just come in and they are going they are being abused by the cartels, they are drowning in the rio grande. you had 50 that died in some shed in texas. i heard no outrage about any of that. i haven t heard outrage about all the fentanyl that s come across the border that killing americans in r
the country s longest serving monarch. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. it is tuesday, september 20th, 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the united states where we are tracking hurricane fiona as the storm gains strength in the atlantic. fiona is now a category 3 hurricane barrelling closer to the turks and caicos islands after tearing through the dominican republic on monday. heavy rains and strong winds ripped through cities destroying buildings and homes. more than 1 million people are without running water in the dominican republic and officials say it s too soon to know the exact number of power outages. it s only a glimpse of the power of this storm, and that s expected to get even stronger through the weeks. let s turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s keeping a close eye on the storm. all eyes on the storm. it is a major hurricane, category 3. possibly up to a category 4. the turks and caicos, home to 5,000 pe
fiona dealt a devastating blow to puerto rico. most of puerto rico without power this morning. it could be days before it is restored. many people there also have no running water. at least two deaths have been reported from the hurricane which dumped up to 30 inches of rain. emergency crews have rescued well over a thousand people including this woman who had to be carried to safety. many more may still be trapped in the flood waters. parts of the island, puerto rico we re talking about, are still struggling to recover from maria that made landfall five years ago today. let s go to layla santiago. what can you tell us? brianna, john, it has been continuing to rain this morning. these are the outer bands of fiona. we are in the northeastern part of the island, san juan. where a small portion of customers have actually had their power restored, but in the interior, in the southern part where we spent most of our time it s a different story. they are waking up without pow
intensefying to a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mile-per-hours. the mayor called it catastrophic. some seeing three feet of rain. look at this. most of the island remains without power and a electrical grid with a checkered past and a bad history. it could be a while before it is restored. two deaths have been reported so far in puerto rico which is still struggling to rebuild after hurricane maria hit five years ago today. crews have rescued more than a thousand people but more could be trapped by the floodwaters. the storm killed at least one person in the dominican republic. cnn meteorologist chad myers is tracking this storm for us. and chad, the latest update just came in from the national hurricane center. what is it showing? it does show one good thing for bermuda. the storm turned a little bit left. you re out of the cone for now. not every storm stays in the cone but one-third could sneak out. that is good news for the people of bermuda.
very good tuesday mornm jim and i m poppy harlow. right now hurricane fiona strengthening as it sets its sights on another batch of islands. but as it moves past puerto rico and the dominican republic, the damage is devastating. look at those images. in puerto rico two people are dead this morning after most of the power on the island is out. it could be days before it is restored. we re looking for gasoline, water, ice. all of the supplies necessary for getting through this. we were hoping it wouldn t be so big. but, well, it was bigger than we expected. and you have to make do with what you have. been through this before. rescuers have saved more than a thousand people from the floodwaters. as much as 30 inches of rain fell on the eiisland. that is like two and a half feet. they try to get to people in more hard to reach areas. this comes five years, to the day after hurricane maria made landfall on the u.s. island. many people who lived through that catastrophe fear