Puerto Rico faces what officials say could be the strongest hurricane to ever hit the U-S territory as they warned it would decimate already crumbling infrastructure and force the government to rebuild dozens of communities.
Forecasters expect hurricane Maria to make landfall this morning along Puerto Rico's southeast coast as a Category 5 storm, punishing the island with life-threatening winds for 12 to 24 hours.
Power outages spiked as Maria approached the island.