raining. the outer band still lashing puerto rico. t a least four deaths reported so far. emergency crews have rescued more than 1,000 people. the efforts are still ongoing as responders try to get to people in hard to reach areas. parts of puerto rico are still recovering from hurricane maria that made landfall there five years ago today. cnn s leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you hearing? brianna and john, as i checked in with families this morning, if you were in san juan, the metropolitan area, there is a small portion of areas that have had power restored. they are getting water back this morning. but if you are in the interior, if you were on the southern coast, really hit hard by hurricane fiona, there is still no power, no water. there are still people at shelters, and there are still crews trying to get access to some areas because of that flooding. i know you went over a lot of the numbers in terms of how much water has come down, the deaths
vehicle later. one of the two later convicted of serial rape and sexual assault. one of the two had threatened to kill lee around the time of her murder. that ms. lee s car was discovered directly behind the house of a family member of one of these potential suspects. was that all news to her family? i have to walk a little bit of a line here because we don t want to get into the substance. what we can say into the merits of the state s motion, what we can say is that there was not enough information provided either in court or in the motion to determine whether these people were new. in fact, the information just based on a cursory review of the motion is was the information new? even if the people weren t new, was the information new? which information are you talking about? in terms of her car being found behind the suspect s house?
hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected it s first socialist president in two decades, we re looking at what it means for the united states. i m wolf blitzer, you re still in the situation room. the vice president joe biden said over the weekend he s fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is working the story for us. jessica, causing quite an uproar there, what s going on? reporter: this is clearly an unwelcome topic for a white house that pronounces to make all decisions based on principle not on politics. it certainly looks as if the vice president supports gay marriage. who do you love? the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable that the fact that men marrying wo i and women marrying women, are entitled to all the civil rights and the civil liberties. report