PBS高端访谈:飓风玛丽亚袭击加勒比海地区
时间：2017-11-07 00:53:12
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And now to Hurricane Maria. The confirmed death toll1 across the Caribbean rose to 19 today, nearly all of them on the island of Dominica.
Reports also began coming in of widespread damage on Puerto Rico, after it took an all-day pounding on Wednesday. John Yang has that story.
Across Puerto Rico today, more rain. In some spots, as much as three feet is forecast to fall by Friday. Flood warnings cover the entire island.
Parts of San Juan were under several feet of water after the storm surge rushed in.
Residents emerged from an overnight curfew to face the first clear view of the
devastation2:
clothes and
belongings3 strewn about, trees and power lines downed, red tile roofs splayed across streets.
Eighty-five percent of the houses are gone in the neighborhood.
Hardest hit, Puerto Rico's smaller
coastal4 towns, like Guayama, near where Maria made landfall. It's lost all communications.
Puerto Rico is in very, very, very tough shape. Their electrical
grid8 is destroyed.
So we're starting the process now, and we will work with the governor and the people of Puerto Rico.
Governor Ricardo Rossello met with FEMA officials, already spread thin by a series of powerful storms, to discuss a recovery plan.
He warned it will take months to repair the island's long-neglected electrical grid and restore power.
To the east, word of even worse devastation on tiny Dominica, where British aid and military teams landed today.
Officials say 95 percent of the buildings are damaged.
Every village in Dominica, every street, every cranny, every person in Dominica was impacted by the hurricane.
We have no running water now. We have no electricity, no power.
St. Croix, in the U.S.
Virgin9 Islands, also reported near-total communications and power outages; 65 percent of the buildings suffered damage.
Today, Maria
lashed10 the Dominican Republic with heavy wind and rain.
The storm is forecast to reach Turks and Caicos overnight, then pass the Eastern Bahamas by Saturday morning.
But a sharp turn to the north will take it toward the open Atlantic by Monday.
As of now, Maria is not expected to pose a direct threat to the U.S. mainland, having already
ravaged11 U.S. territories in the Caribbean.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm John Yang. undefined
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