pictures of and the storm is still going strong. chad meyers is standing by with the latest on the track but we begin with laila santd ysantiag on the scene for us. reporter: on the southwest part of the island hurricane fiona made landfall. we are dealing with rains and wind gusts and flash flooding right now on the ground. but the big story in terms of impacts to the u.s. citizens on the island is there is an island wide power outage going on for an hour and they don t expect that power as this natural disaster comes in. the timing here is part of the story. remember nearly five years ago to the day i stood here as hurricane maria left the island without power for months. the video is dark because there s no power but listen to the exchange. [ speaking nonenglish ] she says when the power goes out she gets real anxious and tense and worried. she is worried what she will find at her house. reporter: the governor saying that mud slides are part of the concern and urging
our hearts go out to you. i think it is such a beautiful way for it to be sent off with people around and people here for days and days. that is exactly what she wanted. and this is a humanitarian crisis created by human hands. it is an all hands on deck moment. they re coming into southern states. what is a governor supposed to do. they re trying to send a message to the rest of the country. to make sure that no one is homeless and hungry and that we always continue to treat people like human beings. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and we begin hurricane fiona is punishing puerto rico the entire island now completely without power. the category 1 storm made landfall this afternoon and is wreaking havoc with heavy winds an rainment and look at this video showing what some of the flash flooding has already done in some areas. we have layla santiago in san juan and first to you, what is the situation there on the ground? well we
amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
we ll hear from one investigator in kyiv about building a war crimes case. and one republican governor says he s just beginning when it comes to sending migrants like these to other states. we ll hear how the white house is responding. it s now 8:00 a.m. in london, the furd full day of lying in state for queen elizabeth. the flood of people hoping to pass by her coffin before monday s state funeral has exceeded expectations with up to 2 million now predicted. authorities warn the miles long queue is at or near capacity and have shut it down multiple times. inside westminster hall the queen s four children led by king charles held a silent vigil. in the coming hours they ll hold the own vigil. we ve been keeping tabs of the government s live tracker with people waiting to get into westminster hall. the site continues to warn people not to join the queue. the wait currently so long people in the back of the line may not get to view the queen s coffin until some time tomorro
taken in on custody by the morality police triggers outrage. florida governor ron desantis had dozens of venezuelan migrants flown to martha s vineyard apparently without notifying officials there. similar to the move started by tooebs g texas governor abbott. they say they are protesting the immigration policies that fail to secure the border and they are vowing to step up the plan. the president has criticized republican officials for, quote, playing politics with human beings and the white house press sent is comparing them to human smugglers. here she is. these were children. they were moms. they were fleeing comcommunism. and they were used as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now, there will be a lot more that is happening. i got 12 million for us to use and so we are going to use it and you are going to see more and more. migrants septemb