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Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN

Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN

Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed.

CNN's Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.

"From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done," he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.

The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.

Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.

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Hurricane Irma batters northern Caribbean islands

-- Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. "(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes -- we cannot rebuild your family," he said.

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Hurricane Irma - storm tracker

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Irma's magnitude never seen before

Late Tuesday, Hurricane Irma was churning toward the northeastern Caribbean at 185 miles an hour. The forecast had it hitting around Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, before impacting the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico later that afternoon.

With Harvey's havoc on their minds, Floridians brace for Irma

The storm's path is uncertain but Florida was also bracing for Irma's impact, possibly this weekend.

"The magnitude of this storm ... has never been seen before in Puerto Rico," Rosselló said, WAPA reported. "Although we hope that this hurricane will not greatly impact Puerto Rico, we are bracing for what could be a very catastrophic event."

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