Dramatic rescue of mom, 2 children from capsized boat near Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria maintained a category 3 status Saturday morning, slowly moving north and away from the Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. Global flights will not resume until Monday.

Maria was the second major hurricane to hit the Caribbean this month and the strongest storm to hit the US territory of Puerto Rico in almost 90 years.

The dam failure happened after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico, leaving the island possibly without power for several months. But some of the problems in Puerto Rico at the moment are more basic – and they have a way of piling up. “This is an event without precedent”.

And now in northwest Puerto Rico, 70,000 people were hurried to evacuate because a dam there is at risk of failing.

That is because Hurricane Maria has demolished the country’s power system, which the governor warned could take months to fix, and ruined telecommunications systems.

A dam has failed and caused “extremely dangerous” flooding on Puerto Rico’s Guajataca river in the wake of Hurricane Maria, authorities say.

The death toll from Maria in Puerto Rico stood at seven after a body found in a river was reported Saturday, and the toll was likely to rise.

“I want every New Yorker to know that anything this state can do for Puerto Rico we will do”, he said before boarding the first available flight to the island.

On Tuesday, Mexico City was rocked by a 7.1-magnitude quake, while Puerto Rico was slammed by Hurricane Maria. President Donald Trump has declared a federal disaster, making the island eligible for more assistance.

Gov. Cuomo boarded a plane to Puerto Rico Friday morning with a raft of aid workers on a mission to assess the damage wreaked by Hurricane Maria and help the devastated island. The flight is due to land early Friday afternoon.

Risky surf and rip currents driven by the storm were expected along the southeastern coast of the U.S mainland for several days, the National Hurricane Center said.

The hurricane traveled directly over the island of Dominica, while also almost making landfall in Guadeloupe.

Everyday American Airlines Cargo Supervisor Israel Pacheco has a mission: get the supplies out of his warehouse and on the American jets and to their destination.

“I need to get there today”, Mayor Oscar Santiago told The Associated Press.

“This was no average storm”, Gutierrez said as he released a letter calling on Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to organize a bipartisan delegation to see the damage.

Roosevelt Skerrit, premier of Dominica, wept as he spoke to a reporter on the nearby island of Antigua, saying: “It is a miracle there were not hundreds of deaths”.