more speeches in new york, all will be keeping an eye on the conflict raging half a world away. erica fiona is wreaking havoc across the caribbean. windsor fallen 100 kilometers an hour, have left much of puerto rico without electricity and clean water. national guard troops have rescued. hundreds of people stranded by flooding. this bridge was installed in recent years at a cost of some $3000000.00 beyond widespread damaged. we infrastructure, overflowing rivers have also forced housings of people from the homes. authorities have opened more than a 100 shelters across the island. those will, haven't fled the homes, have had to travel long distances to get essential supplies. well, w, we're looking for gasoline, water ice, all the supplies necessary for getting through the storm. we were hoping it wouldn't be so big that but well it was bigger than we expected on their own. but you have to make do with what you have. oh no way i gave them over. such scenes of devastation of familiar input are equal, which never fully recovered from hurricane maria. the 2017 storm was the worst it got it on

erica hill reporting live from waterbury, connecticut. thank you very, very much. we're also keeping a close eye on hurricane fiona right now. it's churning toward canada, where it could strike as the country's strongest ever storm. tom sater is joining us now from the cnn weather center with an update. tom, just how unprecedented and devastating could this hurricane be for canada? >> the lowest pressure, wolf, ever recorded in canada, we measure it in millibars, is 940. back in 1977. this is going to get down to 925, 935. so that's equivalent to a category 4. this is a generational storm. it will become their superstorm sandy. right now at its peak category 4, staying well to the west of bermuda. they're starting to see the weather conditions deteriorate. but as it slides northward, even though you see it go from category 4 to category 3 and lose its characteristics as far as what we call a hurricane, it's still going to carry this massive amount of catastrophic energy up into canada. we have advisories along the coast easily eight, nine, ten-foot waves on the coast. but we're near the center, near bermuda. wave heights, wo