Puerto Rico Could Be Without Power for Months

People walk across a flooded street in Juana Matos, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017 as the country faced dangerous flooding and an island-wide power outage following Hurricane Maria.  (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Hurricane Maria moved toward the Turks and Caicos islands early Friday as a weakened but still extremely dangerous Category 3 hurricane. The storm has left a trail of devastation behind it and caused at least 32 deaths on Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico, where the entire electrical grid was knocked out and it could take up to 6 months to restore power to all of the island's 3.5 million people. In the capital, San Juan, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz says she hasn't seen devastation like it before. "The San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer there," Cruz...

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