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View of a park in SamanĂĄ, Dominican Republic, on September 19, 2022, after the passage of Hurricane Fiona.
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2 hours ago
Bridge under repair collapses as Hurricane Fiona passes through the Dominican Republic
By Melissa Alonso
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works and Communications confirmed the collapse of a bridge in La Vega, Dominican Republic, during heavy rains left by Hurricane Fiona.
At a briefing late Monday, the official said the bridge had been out of service for two months due to "instability" repairs.
The collapse in no way affects traffic to and from the north of the country, the official clarified.
The Ministry of Public Works was aware of a failure and provided a bypass before the collapse.
No injuries reported.
The province of La Vega is located in the center of the country.
2 hours ago
More than 1 million customers are still without electricity in Puerto Rico
By Melissa Alonso
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More than a million customers remain without power in Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, after Hurricane Fiona hit the island and caused a power outage throughout the territory, according to Poweroutage.com.
LUMA Energy has restored power to more than 286,000 customers across Puerto Rico, which represents about 19%, the company said in a tweet.
LUMA, the Electric Power Authority and other electricity providers worked through the night to restore service to a critical substation in Salinas and restored the "San Juan 9 generation unit."
This allowed LUMA to restore power to more customers on the island, the tweet says.
3 hours ago
Hurricane Fiona has left at least 4 people dead in the Caribbean
By Melissa Alonso
Flooded streets in Puerto Rico.
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Hurricane Fiona leaves at least one dead in the Dominican Republic, according to Major General Juan MĂ©ndez GarcĂa, director of the country's Emergency Operations Center (COE).
During a press conference on Monday night, the official confirmed the death of a man in Nagua, in the northeast of the Dominican Republic.
"Due to the strong winds, a tree was knocked down and fell on the person, who died," explained MĂ©ndez.
At least four deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Fiona since Sunday: one in Guadeloupe, two in Puerto Rico and one in the Dominican Republic.
4 hours ago
President of the Dominican Republic suspends trip to New York after Fiona passed
By Florence Truco
Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic.
Stock image.
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The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, announced on Monday night that he had permanently suspended his trip to New York in order to attend to the needs in the country after the passage of Hurricane Fiona, which mainly impacted the provinces of La Altagracia, La Romana, El Seibo, SamanĂĄ, Hato Mayor, MarĂa Trinidad SĂĄnchez, Duarte and Monte Plata.
In a video posted on his Twitter account, the president indicated that he will supervise the relief efforts in the affected areas.
Message from the President @LuisAbinader to the Dominican people.
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â Presidency of the Dominican Republic (@PresidenciaRD) September 20, 2022
"Now, it's time to fulfill the most sacred duty that I have as president: help and establish all the necessary mechanisms to return to normality as soon as possible, repair the damage and be with my people," said Abinader.
Finally, the president indicated that this Tuesday he will visit the provinces of La Altagracia, El Seibo and Hato Mayor and during the rest of the week he will visit the rest of the places that were impacted by the hurricane.
4 hours ago
LUMA restores electricity to 19% of customers in Puerto Rico
Downed power lines on highway PR-743 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022. (Credit: Jose Jimenez/Getty Images)
Electricity service was restored for some 286,000 clients of Luma Energy, in charge of the transmission and distribution of electricity in Puerto Rico.
During the early hours of this Tuesday, the company reported on its Twitter account that this number represents approximately 19% of its clients on the island.
As part of our Hurricane Fiona response and restoration efforts, LUMA has restored power to more than 286,000 customers throughout Puerto Rico, representing more than 19% of total customers.
â LUMA Puerto Rico (@lumaenergypr) September 20, 2022
"We will continue to work to restore power across the island and encourage all customers to put their safety first and stay away from all downed power lines," the company warned.
The island's governor, Pedro Pierluisi, will meet this Tuesday with several agencies and offer a press conference at 10:30 am local time.
4 hours ago
ANALYSIS |
The White House accelerates aid to Puerto Rico in the face of Fiona's coup
By Stephen Collinson
Hurricane Fiona left streets completely flooded in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Monday, September 19.
Exactly five years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, another catastrophic storm is testing the federal government's ability to mount a rapid response on an island exposed by its rudimentary infrastructure and vulnerability to climate change.
The Biden White House is mobilizing a surge of assistance after Hurricane Fiona unleashed torrential rains, severe flooding, mudslides and power outages.
Echoes of 2017, when Maria caused more than a couple thousand deaths and left billions of dollars in damage, haunt local residents who are still in the process of rebuilding their homes.
Some whose homes have been flooded may face the prospect of having to start over.
"It's been a catastrophic rain that just won't stop," Robert Little, the coordinator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency on the island, told CNN's Erin Burnett, as the government relief effort began to ramp up.
"The FEMA team has been ramping up since we got the call to come here."
(Credit: Puerto Rico National Guard)
The effort builds on an enhanced federal presence on the island since Maria, when the Trump administration was heavily criticized for a messy response and for applauding itself despite a tragedy that unfolded for months as technicians struggled to restore the grid. electrical.
Although they often seem ignored in Washington, Puerto Ricans are US citizens who live on a US island territory and are entitled to assistance from the federal government.
Detailed storm damage assessments were still being compiled as of Tuesday morning, but some residents said the terrible flooding and mudslides were reminiscent of the devastation wrought by Maria.
More than a million people were left without running water after Hurricane Fiona hit the Dominican Republic.
expected to get stronger
The arrival of the latest hurricane was especially cruel as many Puerto Ricans have fallen on hard times since 2017, struggling through dark chapters of storms, earthquakes, the pandemic and political turmoil.
"This is devastation upon devastation," former San Juan mayor Carmen YulĂn Cruz told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."
Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night that while most of the damage five years ago was caused by hurricane-force winds, the problem this time is the volume of rain.
But while the power grid was repaired after Maria, it hasn't really improved, he said.
Still, Pierluisi added, "We are much better prepared now than Puerto Rico was five years ago when Hurricane Maria hit us. Just to give you an example, FEMA now has four warehouses located throughout Puerto Rico instead of one."
Read more here.
4 hours ago
This was the devastation of Fiona in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
View of a park in SamanĂĄ, Dominican Republic, on September 19, 2022, after the passage of Hurricane Fiona.
(Credit: ERIKA SANTELICES/afp/AFP via Getty Images)
Hurricane Fiona continues its ruinous trajectory on Tuesday after devastating Puerto Rico with torrential rains and then devastating the Dominican Republic, where more than a million people were left without running water and dozens of houses were destroyed.
Nearly 800 people were brought to safety by emergency workers in the Dominican Republic, according to the country's director of emergency management operations, Juan Manuel MĂ©ndez.
At least 519 people took refuge in the country's 29 shelters on Monday, he said.
The eye of the hurricane hit the country early Monday, lashing communities with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour), the National Hurricane Center said.
That's after the storm wreaked havoc across Puerto Rico on Sunday and Monday, leaving the US territory in a blackout and bringing destruction not seen on the island since Hurricane Maria in 2017, officials said.
At least three people were killed by bad weather, including one in the French territory of Guadeloupe and two in Puerto Rico, according to authorities.
In Puerto Rico, a 58-year-old man was swept away by a swollen river behind his home in ComerĂo and another man in his 30s died in a fire that occurred while trying to put gasoline in his generator while it was running, authorities said.
As of this Monday afternoon, at least 1,018,564 clients throughout the Dominican Republic did not have access to running water, as 59 aqueducts were out of service and several others were only partially working, according to JosĂ© Luis GermĂĄn MejĂa, a national management official. of emergencies.
Some also lost power on Monday as 10 electrical circuits went out of service, emergency management officials said.
The number of people affected by the outages is unclear.
Read more here.
9 hours ago
Hurricane Fiona approaches Grand Turk Island
By Monica Garrett
Hurricane Fiona remains a major Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds and even higher gusts, according to the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. ET update.
The center of the storm is now just 40 kilometers southeast of Grand Turk Island.
The only major change with this hurricane update is that the hurricane watch for the Dominican Republic has been discontinued.
A hurricane warning is in effect for the Turks and Caicos Islands and a tropical storm warning is in effect for the southeastern Bahamas.
Fiona's outer bands will continue to produce heavy rains over most of the eastern and coastal sections of the Dominican Republic and into local parts of southern Puerto Rico over the next 24 hours as Fiona moves north-northwestward over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Additional localized flash and urban flooding is possible in the southern part of Puerto Rico.
Fiona is expected to continue to strengthen, reaching a Category 4 on Wednesday and will move away from the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.
Fiona is forecast to be near or west of Bermuda Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Fiona is the first major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.
9 hours ago
The most shocking images of Hurricane Fiona passing through Puerto Rico
By Fernando del Rincon
The best images of Fiona's visit to Puerto Rico 0:57
Torrential rains, floods, power outages and at least two deaths are some of the catastrophic consequences of Hurricane Fiona passing through Puerto Rico.
We show you a compilation of the most impressive images of the fury of this meteorological phenomenon.
10 hours ago
Fiona leaves record rains in Puerto Rico: they already reach 76 centimeters
By Fernando del Rincon
Fiona causes about 76 centimeters of rain in Puerto Rico 1:54
Hurricane Fiona has caused record rainfall in Puerto Rico with rainfall already reaching 76 centimeters (30 inches), as confirmed in "Conclusions" by Nino Correa, commissioner of the Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration.
11 hours ago
Fiona is already a big hurricane
By Robert Shackelford
Hurricane Fiona has strengthened to a major hurricane, according to the 2 am update from the US National Hurricane Center.
Fiona is now a category 3 hurricane with winds of 185 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 210 kilometers per hour.
The center of the storm is now just 72 kilometers south-southeast of Grand Turk Island and it is moving in a north-northwest direction at 16 kilometers per hour.
No more changes with notice.
11 hours ago
Two dead in Puerto Rico after the passage of Hurricane Fiona
By Rafy Rivera
Activate emergency plan to help Puerto Rico 4:23
After Hurricane Fiona passed through Puerto Rico, at least one million LUMA Energy customers still do not have the electrical system enabled.
Governor Pedro Pierluisi confirmed two deaths this Monday, and said that he has already had conversations with President Biden to activate an emergency plan to help the island with funds.
12 hours ago
Hurricane Fiona strengthens slightly
By Robert Shackelford
According to the 11:00 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center, Fiona has strengthened slightly with sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour, making it a Category 3 hurricane.
Heavy rains continue in the eastern parts of the Dominican Republic, while conditions are gradually improving in Puerto Rico.
A storm surge of 1.5 to 2.4 meters above normal tide is expected for the Turks and Caicos Islands through Tuesday, which is higher than the previous update.
Fiona is still expected to continue to strengthen into a major hurricane in the next few hours.
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