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    Hurricane Maria rips through eastern Caribbean on its way to Puerto Rico

    by By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2017 4 minutes

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were bracing for possible catastrophe as they remained locked in the cross hairs of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that has already devastated the Caribbean island of Dominica and on Tuesday was continuing to gain strength.

    "Now is not the time to wait," San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said in a televised plea for people in high-risk areas or rickety homes to evacuate to government-run shelters. "Now is the time to accept the reality of what's going to happen."

    Speaking from the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where more than 500 evacuees were hunkering down, she warned that the storm would likely shut down

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