frustration and fatigue building as food and other supplies are running low for families trapped by as much as 12 feet of snow. the national guard going door to door, checking on residents, offering relief. demarco morgan from the san bernardino mountain and rob marciano with the forecast. the race for 2024 kicking into gear. former president donald trump making his pitch for the nomination, telling followers i am your retribution, promising to stay in the race despite multiple criminal probes. ron desantis on the road teasing a possible run, and a former republican governor who is staying out. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the battle for bakhmut intensifies. video circulating online shows a bridge being blown up. urainian troops hoping to stop the russians from taken the key city. james longman on the ground in ukraine. chris rock speaks out nearly a year later, finally responding publicly to that infamous oscars slap. and what he s now saying about the persona
states. what is a governor supposed to do? they re trying to send a message to the rest of the country. make sure that no one s homeless, no one s hungry, and make sure that we always continue to treat people like human beings. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. hurricane fiona, this massive storm, might drop 30 inches of rain on puerto rico before it moves on. and already, we are seeing scenes like this on your screen. flooded rivers tearing away bridges and making matters worse, no power. the island s entire electric grid is offline. it failed and plunged 3 million americans into darkness, hours before fiona made landfall. and puerto rico s main energy supplier says power will most likely be out for days. fema s assistant administrator for response and recovery told me just a short time ago, that more than 300 fema responders were already on the ground before the storm hit. let s bring in cnn meteorologist karen maginnis, monitoring fi
school libraries and reading lists in more districts and states, according to a new report. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. hurricane fiona wreaking havoc on several caribbean islands. the storm made landfall as a category 1, but expected to become a major hurricane after it hit puerto rico on sunday, knocking out the entire power grid there. puerto rico, still recoverining from hurricane maria in 2017, is suffering catastrophic flooding. you can see this bridge, which was rebuilt after hurricane maria, being swept away by the rushing waters. another river, rising to 29 feet, surpassing the record set in 2017. we re going to start our coverage with laila santiago, in part rico, where most communities are still struggling without power. reporter: almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slam into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastrophic mud
frustration and fatigue building as food and other supplies are running low for families trapped by as much as 12 feet of snow. the national guard going door to door, checking on residents, offering relief. demarco morgan from the san bernardino mountain and rob marciano with the forecast. the race for 2024 kicking into gear. former president donald trump making his pitch for the nomination, telling followers i am your retribution, promising to stay in the race despite multiple criminal probes. ron desantis on the road teasing a possible run, and a former republican governor who is staying out. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the battle for bakhmut intensifies. video circulating online shows a bridge being blown up. urainian troops hoping to stop the russians from taken the key city. james longman on the ground in ukraine. chris rock speaks out nearly a year later, finally responding publicly to that infamous oscars slap. and what he s now saying about
type of things happening right now because of that flooding. earlier, just within the last few hours in the central part of the island, we watched as somebody filmed a bridge being washed ed because of that risin river in the middle of the island. so we are seeing this storm take its toll on the island. and let s take into account where the island is in terms of the history. it is almost five years to the day that hurricane maria just pummeled this island, leaving people here without power for months, some nearly a year. so this is a level of frustration that many are dealing with tonight, as they go to bed with rain continuing to come down and no power. so i spoke with fema this evening, and i said, what do you say to those people? i understand you have responders ready, but what do you say to the people who have had five