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
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 the fallout and the aftermath from fiona could be worse. now turks and caicos, possibly next in the storm s path. the first major hurricane of the year expected to become a category 4 by tomorrow. let s bring in our cnn meteorologist chad myers, where is the we see where the storm is headed but what is it bringing? how bad. it went over grand turk. that is not grace bay, that is the next kind of set of islands over. but we do know there is already damage on south caicos and east caicos. i ve been watching videos out of the some resorts, so far so good, they re getting winds of 50 to 60. they could handle that. and the hurricane hunter finding wind speeds of about 103 to 115.