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About to experience in this part of the world, john. raphael, thank you. and quickly back to nick valencia back in san juan. hitting with a force and violence we have not seen for generations. the infrastructure will be damaged, and of course, the power grid is very vulnerable right now. what are they looking at here in terms of how long the power could be out for, how long it could take to repair? reporter: well, the governor took to his official twitter account a couple of hours ago to say the island territory should expect to be without power for a long time. some of these buildings are only meant to withstand a category 3 type hurricane. this is expected to be as high as a category 5 hurricane. just to give you a sense of where we re at, we re at one of the hotels in swan juan. and the wind might not look as fierce right now, but that has a lot to do with this parking ....
Situation is here, we have learned in the last couple of hours or so that the local emergency management office, their employees have to evacuate because they didn t have power to begin with. and then their generator stopped working, so they had to go to the mayor s office, to the municipal building to find shelter. and just on the way here, john, we were able to see many downed trees and power lines, many damaged homes. and that s a result of a couple of weeks ago when hurricane irma hit this region. now, we re getting another hurricane. you have to go back all the way to 1928 to be able to compare another hurricane, category 4 or 5, that hit this area. so we re talking about 89 years that this island has not experienced something like we re ....
Conditions like where you are? reporter: we know people are listening to the evacuation warnings. there s very dire warnings from officials here. it was an early morning press conference where they said do not expect miracles. this is not going to change expectation it s going to make landfall as a category 4 or perhaps category 5 hurricane. you get the sense this is different from hurricane irma. the wind feels different, the atmosphere and climate feels different. usually when croyou say hurricane, you get kind of a shoulder shrug. they re used to tropical winds and conditions. this time, though, they re getting a direct hit. government officials have tried to do the best they can stressing this to the residents. it was earlier the governor did a tour telling residents let us please help you. this is not what you went through with irma. even still the devastation from ....
Say we re willing to work with this and reduce tensions and prevent a war by miscalculation. he didn t do it. campaigning again to his america first base, which is completely out of whack how the world feels and allies feel we should be coopera cooperative and reduce the tension. thank you for being with us. also ian lee who was live with us in seoul. and with that we ll take another short break. we ll have more on our breaking story hurricane maria. the category 5 storm closing in now on puerto rico. this is not a cloud. this is a tomato tracked from farm to table on a blockchain, helping keep shoppers safe. this is a financial transaction secure from hacks and threats others can t see. this is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data and ai to help thousands get to work safely and efficiently. ....