for beach erosion as well as coastal flooding, very similar to what we have seen with hurricane jose. thank you very much. let s go to leyla in san juan, puerto rico. difficult for us to get communications even with you. you have spent your day going around, talking to people and hearing them respond to the fact it may be months before they have power and communication with the rest of the world. reporter: right, erin. we are having a hard time establishing a live report because of those issues. communication is a problem, not just power. communication is what everyone is talking about. you know, i was with the national guard and firefighters today. rescue efforts, getting to people in flooded homes. you know, you could see the frustration on people s faces as
news alert. puerto rico is waking up in total darkness after taking a direct hit from hurricane maria. monster storm 155 mile-per-hour winds tearing buildings apart and knocking out power across the entire island. steve: officials say it could take months before electricity is returned to puerto rico. on top of that, two more feet of rain. 2 feet of rain falling in some parts. turning streets into rivers. meteorologist janice dean is live in the studio right now tracking hurricane maria and hurricane jose. janice: right. jose is still throughout off the east coast. look at some of the official wind gusts, over 135 mile-per-hour winds at the u.s. virgin islands, also puerto rico and as you mentioned devastating effects across puerto rico everyone without power. the storm right now crossed over puerto rico and lost some steam. it actually kind of weakens quite a bit. and now it has strengthened again as it is over warm waters. 115 mile-per-hour sustained winds it is a category 3. a major
a lot of puerto rico impacted by this. also, the mountains over here on the southwestern side are up towards 4,500 feet. that would have ripped up the storm. it jogged around that there. that said, the storm is still very strong. the pressure came up quite a bit. good news. this is the red. we will likely see some hurricane force winds here across the north shore of the d.r. hopefully the worst of this stays to the east of turks and caicos, an area that saw a direct hit from irma a couple weeks ago. after that, most of the guidance pulls this off to the north. this gives you a sense of what we re talking about. somewhere between the east coast and bermuda. here s the area. we don t know what will happen. we have hurricane jose that we ve been dealing with there. this is tropical storm jose now stuck here across the northeast. this following a similar pattern. a lot of beach erosion in the
as to what the hurricane jose has done. pulling to the mid-atlantic and around parts of the northeast. we ll be adding impacts across parts of the northeast wednesday and thursday as the storm pulls off to the north. that said, too early to say what the impacts are. do we have a district hit somewhere? maybe on the outer banks? it s a possibility. somewhere farther in from new york city up around parts of the northeast, too early to say what we do know, environmental conditions are less favorable for a strong hurricane. the water temperatures come down as well. all guidances have a weaker storm. but tuesday, a storm off the shore of the mid-atlantic, shep. shepard: what a season, rick. can you imagine living through this thing? no lights, no way to get help, no idea whether your home will stand up or fall down around you. we ll speak with a woman riding out the storm, hiding in her
it s going to potentially devastate and even higher than that, 130 miles per hour gusts. looking at the computer models as we go for the running time, the u.s. obviously the east coast is wondering if we are going to feel the effects of maria, there is a potential, yes as we get through wednesday and thursday as it comes close and whether or not that bermuda high builds and come out will that push these storms closer to the east coast? it s still not out of the questions let s buy we re watching maria. real quick, i want to touch on hurricane jose, still off the coast of the northeast bringing high waves and some rough surf and rip currents so people need to be alert. we could get some nor easter type of wins tomorrow and through wednesday and thursday so watch hurricane rose, but julie, maria is just a disaster waiting to happen for the islands the lesser antilles and print ricoh tonight. back to you. jon: we heard