The video taken by radio station Walo Radio, shows the intensity of the storm with rain battering the building’s windows. A loud sound made by water and wind can be heard in the clip as it enters the facility in Humacao. Hurricane Maria is also expected to hit the US […]
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September 20th, 2017 TODAY’s Al Roker reports on the latest track of Hurricane Maria, saying “this is exactly what we didn’t want to happen.” All eyes are on Puerto Rico, which faces devastating winds and rain.
Hurricane Maria roared ashore in Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm, ripping roofs off buildings, flooding homes, and cutting power to millions across the U.S. territory. Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico since 1928, had maximum sustained winds of 155 mph as it made […]
BBC Europe editor Katya Adler asked the actor, who is starring as Angela Merkel in a German political comedy called ‘What to do with Mummy’, how he gets into the zone. But she would have been surprised by his answer that the German Chancellor is “like a pudding” that can’t […]
The desperate hunt for dozens of missing children at a Mexico City school partially flattened by a powerful earthquake became a race against time as dawn broke Wednesday. At least 217 people were killed by Tuesday’s magnitude-7.1 quake and scores of buildings were destroyed. Firefighters, police and local volunteers pulled […]
Puerto Rican meteorologist José García said that Hurricane Maria’s outer eyewall had “consolidated” – meaning that severe conditions could affect even more people in east Puerto Rico including San Juan. The images from the National Weather Service show the storm making its way over the US territory. The expert also […]
In the jaw-dropping clip, captured by National Geographic photographer Mike Theiss, brutal winds can be heard whistling loudly and pushing against a door. The door, bolstered with sandbags, can be heard creaking and flexing as the wind and rain rattle the building. Users on social media responding to the video […]
The magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 217 people, nearly half of them in the capital, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake and less than two weeks after a powerful tremor killed nearly 100 people in the south of the country. Among the twisted concrete and […]