This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tropical storm erika is dumping five inches of rain on puerto rico, as it continues its path through the caribbean. Four were killed as erika dumped 15 inches of rain on that small island nation. Twenty people are missing there. Fastflowing rivers swept up cars, landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies knocked out. The storm now heading towards florida. Kevin joins us with details. This storm has been inconsistent and hasnt gotten its act together. Since yesterday, taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can see the rain showers in puerto rico. The radar ends here, but the satellite as you can see, the Actual Center of the storm is not here, its here towards the west. We do think that as randall said, puerto rico will be getting up to about five inches of rain over the next several hours, but my concern as we go through the rest of the morning into the afternoon is the Dominican Repub
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Floridas governor declared a state of emergency as erika heads towards the sunshine state. And the white house says president obama has been briefed on storm preparations. The Tropical Storm has plowed a path of death and destruction through the caribbean. [ screaming ] a church in dominica collapsed under the fury of the wind and rain. The island nation so far the hardest hit. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies were knocked out. The storm is right now delivering another punch to puerto rico. As much as eight inches of rain are expected before erika moves over the Dominican Republic towards florida by monday morning. George w. Bush has been in new orleans today visiting a school hard hit by Hurricane Katrina ten years ago. The slogan that guided the school when we first visited is true today. We believe in success. And because of that success, that school
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