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helping a woman in the floodwaters. an official says 1,000 people have been rescued so far, and more resources are on their way from the u.s. mainland into puerto rico. an official now saying that some areas have seen record levels of water. more rainfall and rivers even higher than after hurricane maria. jennifer gray is standing by in the weather center for us, but first, let s go live to puerto rico and cnn s leyla santiago, and you re there on the ground. what are you seeing? well, we re in the northeastern part of the island, but i just got back from the southern part of the island, which was really hit hard, and i guess the story right now is that there are catastrophic floods. this has already taken an impact. and it is not over yet. i want to show you video and talk to you about what i saw. this was an area where the national guard had to rescue people overnight. i talked to the mayor. she said they have more than 2,000 families that have been impacted by this, and
day the side of the plane blew off is the cockpit door would blow open. they didn t know that it hit the lavatory so hard and apparently knocked the first officer s headset off. when they looked at the both headsets were missing. these are vital things people should have known fly flying the plane. this is i would say, when you think about all the information the pilot needs, having been a long time airline pilot, carpet myself. these are the kind of things you want to know. this is an opportunity for boeing to know it s provided that criminal information, right? typically you have what is called a blow-out section of the cockpit door so in the event of a rapid depressionization that panel will blow out. in this case you have got you know, a fort find door and so this is an additional feature. it s an opportunity to make sure we have got all the information out there. steve: one of the problems for the ntsb is because the way
this just in to cnn. the faa just rejected a controversial request from an airline to slash pilot hiring standards to tackle the pilot shortage. cnn s pete muntean joins us. what can you tell us. reporter: we ve been talking about the pilot shortage for months. all the flights cancelled or delayed, 50,000 this summer alone. the gold standard that airlines say is keeping them from hiring more people is what s known as the 1,500-hour rule. that is how much flying time a new pilot needs before going to the airlines, and what happened back in april is that one of these regional airlines where most new pilots for the airlines start out republic airways, it flight about 1,000 flights a day for american, united and delta, it said that its pilot that
plane that had 150 people onboard is due to appear in federal court. he tried to disable the aircraft s navigation system before takeoff at miami international airport. we have cnn aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh here with us. luckily the pilots caught this issue but it was just before takeoff, right? yeah. it s very scary. what happened? let s set the scene. this plane is actually on the runway. it s traveling down the runway. you have 150 people onboard. and then an error message. the pilots realize that something is wrong. fast forward to once this plane is back in the hangar, they re able to figure out that someone tampered with a critical component on the plane. without getting too in the weeds, essentially this is a part of the plane s navigational system that gives pilots critical data, like how fast they re going. a pilot needs to know how fast