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
places lost in the past weeks. so this is about vengeance and spite. this prisoner, this claimed to be local but they think he s a russian soldier deserting or left behind. what else moscow left behind is far uglier. these tiny rooms in their detention center where as many as 400 prisoners were held at one time we were told. eight or nine prisoners per cell. booby traps now in their place, a warning written next to this room. so he s writing grenade there on the wall. as they move through these cells, they re finding booby traps left, it seems, by the occupying forces. that one in there, a grenade left under a tray of half-eaten food. and it just shows you the hazards that ordinary people are going to find coming back. a place like this, sure, used as a key detention center by the russians, but across this town, the damage is extraordinary but also too is the risk of unexploded o rcrdnance and boob traps. they re discovering two other scars from torture. he says he was impr
Tonight, breaking news. As we come on the air in the west tonight. The states of emergency. A major hurricane moving in. Hurricane michael rapidly gaining strength at this hour. The new track just in tonight. Racing toward the american coast. The fastmoving storm could make landfall as a category 3 hurricane. Mandatory evacuations coming. Long lines for gas already. Tonight, cruise ships out at sea changing course. Meteorologist ginger zee has the hour by hour when this hits. Also tonight, we have new reporting here after that deadly limousine crash. 20 people killed. Among them, four sisters. What authorities have just revealed about the driver tonight. And about the limo itself. And tonight, what weve learned about the owner of the company. You will see the undercover video of him as an fbi informant. Also breaking tonight, the new Supreme Court justice, brett kavanaugh, at the white house this evening. The ceremony with the president. What the president said to his new Supreme Court
Graduate when its own training program don t need to be under the is a hundred-hour rule. they argued to the faa they should only have to have 5750 hours of flight time, but now we re hearing from the faa that it is soundly rejecting that saying that the graduates of republic airways own flight training program essentially don t meet the same level of safety that the airlines and the faa would like to see. this is a pretty big shift here, and this was a huge controversy. remember, that unions, pilots unions were pretty against this even though some trade associations were pushing for this. the airlines say one of the biggest issues right now is simply hiring people. they just need to get people in the door, and sometimes regulations can get in the way. remember, back in 2009 this all changed after this colgan air crash in buffalo when families of those killed in the crash asked the federal government to
York, tonight. reporter: tonight, investigators of this accident that took 20 lives are concentrating on the limousine, the driver and the small company called prestige. the owner of the company had no business putting a failed vehicle on the road. the owner of prestige has a lot of questions to answer. reporter: the governor revealing the driver was not properly licensed. the limo failed inspection just a month ago. and the company has been told to cease operations for now. the 2001 stretched ford excursion blew through a stop sign at a t intersection, impacting with such force, the engine block ended up in the driver s compartment, with no signs of skid marks. considering the impact and the speed limit, it seems obvious this vehicle was speeding. well, i can t argue with that, but i can t agree with it, either, because we don t have the actual evidence for that. but i can tell you, this was a high energy crash. reporter: the ntsb chair pointing out that this is the deadli