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An employee working in Greensboro, NC fell straight off Ferris wheel while fixing on of the cars

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A worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, fell from a Ferris wheel when he was trying to fix one of the cars. He was not critically injured. HLN's Lynn Smith reports.

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A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Mexico City. This earthquake killed more than 200 people and left people injured, and houses destroyed.

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Mexico earthquake death toll surpasses 200

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Desperate searchers shouted “quiet” and listened for faint voices in the rubble where a Mexican school once stood, as rescuers used trained dogs and their bare hands to reach any survivors of Tuesday’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake that killed more than 200 people.

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Hurricane Maria is expected to hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm this morning. Follow here for live updates.

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A worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, fell from a Ferris wheel when he was trying to fix one of the cars.

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A worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, fell from a Ferris wheel when he was trying to fix one of the cars. He was not critically injured. HLN's Lynn Smith reports.

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After the earthquake in Mexico City, workers were looking for survivors. They found 21 dead children at a school. At least 2 children and 1 adult are still missing.

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"The priority now is continue rescuing those who are still trapped and provide medical attention to the injured," said President Enrique Peña Nieto in a video statement early Wednesday.

Dozens of buildings in Central Mexico turned into plumes of dust and debris killing at least 216 people in Mexico City -- one of the busiest cities in the world -- and the surrounding states of Puebla, Mexico and Morelos when a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday, officials said.

One of those buildings was the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City's Coapa district, where 22 bodies have been recovered.

"Unfortunately many people have lost their lives, including girls and boys in schools, buildings and houses. I want to express my condolences to those who lost a family member or a loved one. Mexico shares your grief," Peña Nieto said.

Photos of missing students circulated social media while dozens of parents waited outside the school hoping to find them. The family of 7-year-old Jose Eduardo Huerta Rodriguez looked for hours through handwritten lists with names of those who had been rescued and visited the city's hospitals.

But around 10 p.m. (local time), a family member who had stayed outside the school called Jose's mother.

"He was still inside the school, and he was dead when they rescued him," his aunt Paola Rodriguez told CNN.

About a mile away, four people were killed and 40 injured at The Monterrey Institute of Technology campus in Mexico City, the school said.

The earthquake has left a devastating impact in the region. An unaccounted number of people are staying at shelters around the city after losing their homes. Schools have closed indefinitely and millions remain without power.

Peña Nieto has asked people to stay indoors and stay away from the streets while the rescue attempts continue.

'We all need to come together'

In the upscale neighborhood of Roma, one of the hardest hit areas in the city, Violeta Gaytan, was among many who fled the area on Tuesday to get away from damaged buildings and a strong smell of gas.

"There was a lot of people screaming, children everywhere. I saw people calling out for doctors and a lot of dust," the publicist in Mexico City said.

Like others in the city, Gaytan began to walk home. She expected it would take her hours but a man was driving around offering people rides to metro stations across the city.

A couple of hours before Tuesday's earthquake, authorities held a city-wide drill in the anniversary of an earthquake that killed an estimated 9,500 people in and around Mexico City in 1985, one the country's worst natural disasters in recent memory.

"This is one of those moments where we all need to come together," said Dorothy Munoz after she grabbed her dogs and raced to the street after her apartment was shaken by the earthquake.

Less than two weeks ago, a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southern coast of the country, killing at least 90, according to the governor of the state of Oaxaca.

CNN's Jennifer Hauser, Darran Simon, Artemis Mostaghian, Gustavo Ramirez, Elwyn Lopez, Catherine E. Shoichet, Amanda Jackson and Phil Gast contributed to this report.

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"The priority now is continue rescuing those who are still trapped and provide medical attention to the injured," said President Enrique Peña Nieto in a video statement early Wednesday.

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All power has been knocked out in Puerto Rico after they were struck by the terrible storm, it was so fierce it knocked 2 weather satellites in the island down

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Hurricane Maria’s eye has left Puerto Rico, but the mammoth storm is still lashing the island with devastating winds.

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The Navy is supposedly going to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes opposed to the helicopter style stick traditionally used.

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The next time you hear "down periscope," the command may be carried out via an Xbox controller.

The U.S. Navy is going to use Microsoft Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes on its newest submarines, Virginia-class submarines, reports say. The new periscopes, which will have high-resolution cameras and large monitors ,will be steered via the video game controller, as opposed to the helicoper-style stick that has traditionally been used.

"The Navy got together and they asked a bunch of J.O.s and junior guys, 'What can we do to make your life better?' " said Lt. j.g. Kyle Leonard, the USS John Warner's assistant weapons officer, referring to junior officers and sailors, according to Military.com. "And one of the things that came out is the controls for the scope. It's kind of clunky in your hand; it's real heavy."
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Younger sailors are more familiar with the controllers, which require less training than the advanced stick. In addition, they are significantly cheaper. An Xbox 360 controller sells for around $30 on Amazon, compared to the $38,000 price tag for the photonic mast handgrip and imaging control panel.

"That joystick is by no means cheap, and it is only designed to fit on a Virginia-class submarine," said Senior Chief Mark Eichenlaub, the John Warner's assistant navigator. "I can go to any video game store and procure an Xbox controller anywhere in the world, so it makes a very easy replacement."

Neither Microsoft nor the U.S. Navy could be immediately reached for comment for this story.
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The effort to reduce the costs was the result of officials from Lockheed Martin and the Navy working together to use off-the-shelf technology, while also taking advantage of certain technological skills the sailors already possessed.

The Xbox controller will be included as part of the integrated imaging system for the aforementioned Virginia-class subs, starting with the USS Colorado, which will be commissioned by November.

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The next time you hear "down periscope," the command may be carried out via an Xbox controller. The U.S. Navy is going to use Microsoft Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes on its newest submarines, Virginia-class submarines, reports say.

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A two employees  at Naval Hospital Jacksonville were removed from a patient care due to them mistreating a newborn baby and put disturbing videos & picture of it online.http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2017/09/20/navy-hospital-mishandled-babies-hln.hln.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani fired back at President Trump on Tuesday, saying his country would “respond decisively” if the United States violated the nuclear agreement signed during the Obama administration.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani fired back at President Trump on Tuesday, saying his country would "respond decisively" if the United States violated the nuclear agreement signed during the Obama administration.

Rouhani's comments came a day after Trump's speech to the United National General Assembly, in which he castigated the Iranian government for masking "a corrupt dictatorship behind false guise of a democracy." Rouhani told the UNGA he wouldn't "threaten anyone" and would "not tolerate threats from anyone."

"I declare before you that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be the first country to violate the agreement; but it will respond decisively and resolutely to its violation by any party," Rouhani said. "It will be a great pity if this agreement were to be destroyed by 'rogue' newcomers to the world of politics: the world will have lost a great opportunity."

The Islamic Republic's leader took multiple rhetorical swipes at Trump, who has vowed on several occasions to pull out of the Iran deal -- but has so far held off from doing do.

"The ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric, filled with ridiculously baseless allegations, that was uttered before this august body yesterday, was not only unfit to be heard at the United Nations - which was established to promote peace and respect between nations - but indeed contradicted the demands of our nations from this world body to bring governments together to combat war and terror," Rouhani said.

The president also warned the U.S. risks its credibility if it withdraws from the nuke deal.

"By violating its international commitments, the new U.S. administration only destroys its own credibility for future negotiations," the Iranian leader said, perhaps referencing diplomatic efforts to tame North Korea's own nuclear ambitions.

In his Tuesday speech, Trump issued a scalding takedown of the Iranian leaders, calling Rouhani's government a "murderous regime" that shouldn't be allowed to have missiles.

"We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles," Trump said.

The president's critique added weight for those who believe the U.S. will walk away from the nuclear deal created under former President Barack Obama. Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia are also part of the pact. On Wednesday, Trump said he has "decided" whether the U.S. will stay in the nuclear deal, but he did not reveal his final answer, Reuters reported.

Under U.S. law, the president must certify to Congress every 90 days whether Iran is adhering to the agreement. If the president doesn't certify compliance, Congress has 60 days to decide whether to re-impose sanctions lifted under the agreement.

The next certification deadline is Oct. 15, and several officials and people close to the matter have described Trump as determined to "decertify" Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal at that point.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani fired back at President Trump on Tuesday, saying his country would "respond decisively" if the United States violated the nuclear agreement signed during the Obama administration. Rouhani's comments came a day after Trump's speech to the United National General Assembly, in which he castigated the Iranian government for masking "a corrupt dictatorship behind false guise of a democracy."

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Puerto Rico is 100% out of power after hurricane Maria goes right over the island. All of the palm trees do not have any leaves on them, they are just the trunks. Most of the residents on the island have been with out power after Irma

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Hurricane Maria is expected to hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm this morning. Follow here for live updates.

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A fair worker is seen falling from a Ferris wheel

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A worker in Greensboro, North Carolina, fell from a Ferris wheel when he was trying to fix one of the cars. He was not critically injured. HLN's Lynn Smith reports.

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Desperate searchers shouted “quiet” and listened for faint voices in the rubble where a Mexican school once stood, as rescuers used trained dogs and their bare hands to reach any survivors of Tuesday’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake that killed more than 200 people.

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Puerto Rico is years into an economic crisis. Now it's facing a natural disaster.

Hurricane Maria hit the island on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, threatening lives and promising potentially devastating economic damage.

The island is already deep in a years-long debt debacle spurred by mismanaged funds, archaic energy policies and a struggling economy.

Puerto Rico's government owes $74 billion to bondholders, and an additional $50 billion in pension obligations to teachers and almost all other government employees. In May, it filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico faces another long-term problem: Many residents are moving from the island for the mainland United States, leaving it with few skilled workers to handle the rebuilding and development process.

The territory's population was down to 3.4 million residents last year from 3.8 million in 2004. Persistently high unemployment, along with better job opportunities in the mainland U.S., have pushed Puerto Ricans to pick up their bags and move, mainly to Florida and Texas, according to the Pew Research Center.

Related: How to rebuild an island after Hurricane Irma

The pace is picking up, too. In 2005, nearly 47,000 Puerto Ricans left the U.S. territory for the mainland. Last year: 89,000 left, Pew reports. Puerto Rico's economy has been in a recession since 2006. It's unemployment rate in August was 10.1%, more than double the national average, according to Labor Department figures.

Puerto Rico's government has tried to lure investors and businesses to the island to boost its tax base. It offers major tax incentives to wealthy individuals who own property or start a business on the island. Its current administration is trying to cut red tape to make it easier for investors to buy Puerto Rican debt with fewer hurdles. It also agreed to be subject to a financial oversight board to help ensure it starts to pay down its debts.

However, the oversight board has criticized Rossello's administration this year for its lack of progress on creating a sustainable debt-payment plan. Rossello argues that the criticisms are unfair and that the island's government is making progress.

Puerto Rico was spared a direct hit by Hurricane Irma, though hundreds of thousands of people lost power and some structures were badly damaged, officials said.

--Jill Disis contributed reporting to this article.

A version of this article was published on September 18.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 20, 2017: 7:41 AM ET

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Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria hammers an economy that can't take much more

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Hurricane Maria hit the island on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, threatening lives and promising potentially devastating economic damage. The island is already deep in a years-long debt debacle spurred by mismanaged funds, archaic energy policies and a struggling economy.

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86 year old jewelry hief was released from jail.

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A recidivist jewel thief who became famous for her decades-long international crime spree is out of jail after her latest sentence.

Doris Payne, 86, has a long rap sheet of robberies to her name, but most recently was arrested at a Walmart in July when she allegedly violated the terms of her probation from an earlier sentence.

At a hearing on Friday, DeKalb Superior Court Judge Linda Hunter revoked Payne's probation, sentenced her to time served and released her.

Payne had been charged with a misdemeanor for violating the terms of her three-year probation and ban from any mall in DeKalb County for admittedly stealing a $2,000 necklace, when she was arrested on July 18 at a Walmart in Chamblee, Georgia. She allegedly had stolen $86.22 worth of items from the store's pharmacy, grocery and electronics departments, ABC affiliate WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The misdemeanor shoplifting charge from that alleged incident is still pending and Payne is due to appear in court October 16, according to her attorney.

"She has a misdemeanor shoplifting charge from Chamblee, Georgia, that is currently pending and we will be aggressively defending her on that case," Marissa Goldberg, one of Payne's attorneys, told ABC News.

Payne has previously gotten out of jail early on good behavior.

Cynthia Williams, a public information officer for the Dekalb County Sheriff's office confirmed to ABC News that Payne was released from custody before the end of the day Friday.

She was the subject of a 2013 documentary, "The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne," which described her as "a poor, single, African-American mother from segregated 1930s America" who became "one of the world's most notorious and successful jewel thieves."

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A recidivist jewel thief who became famous for her decades-long international crime spree is out of jail after her latest sentence. Doris Payne, 86, has a long rap sheet of robberies to her name, but most recently was arrested at a Walmart in July when she allegedly violated the terms of her...

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The government is making Andrew Weiner suffer prison time due to his ¨sexting case¨.

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Federal prosecutors says former Congressman Anthony Weiner should go to prison for about two years for engaging in sexting with a 15-year-old girl.

Prosecutors filed papers in Manhattan federal court Wednesday urging a judge to send a message at sentencing Monday.

The 53-year-old New York Democrat said in a submission last week that he is undergoing treatment and was profoundly sorry for subjecting the North Carolina high school student to what his lawyers called his "deep sickness."

Defense lawyers had portrayed the girl as an aggressor, saying she wanted to generate material for a book and possibly influence the presidential election.

As part of a plea bargain, Weiner has agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months.

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Federal prosecutors says former Congressman Anthony Weiner should go to prison for about two years for engaging in sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Prosecutors filed papers in Manhattan federal court Wednesday urging a judge to send a message at sentencing Monday. The 53-year-old New...

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"The priority now is continue rescuing those who are still trapped and provide medical attention to the injured," said President Enrique Peña Nieto in a video statement early Wednesday.

Dozens of buildings in Central Mexico turned into plumes of dust and debris killing at least 216 people in Mexico City -- one of the busiest cities in the world -- and the surrounding states of Puebla, Mexico and Morelos when a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday, officials said.

One of those buildings was the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City's Coapa district, where 22 bodies have been recovered.

"Unfortunately many people have lost their lives, including girls and boys in schools, buildings and houses. I want to express my condolences to those who lost a family member or a loved one. Mexico shares your grief," Peña Nieto said.

Photos of missing students circulated social media while dozens of parents waited outside the school hoping to find them. The family of 7-year-old Jose Eduardo Huerta Rodriguez looked for hours through handwritten lists with names of those who had been rescued and visited the city's hospitals.

But around 10 p.m. (local time), a family member who had stayed outside the school called Jose's mother.

"He was still inside the school, and he was dead when they rescued him," his aunt Paola Rodriguez told CNN.

About a mile away, four people were killed and 40 injured at The Monterrey Institute of Technology campus in Mexico City, the school said.

The earthquake has left a devastating impact in the region. An unaccounted number of people are staying at shelters around the city after losing their homes. Schools have closed indefinitely and millions remain without power.

Peña Nieto has asked people to stay indoors and stay away from the streets while the rescue attempts continue.

'We all need to come together'

In the upscale neighborhood of Roma, one of the hardest hit areas in the city, Violeta Gaytan, was among many who fled the area on Tuesday to get away from damaged buildings and a strong smell of gas.

"There was a lot of people screaming, children everywhere. I saw people calling out for doctors and a lot of dust," the publicist in Mexico City said.

Like others in the city, Gaytan began to walk home. She expected it would take her hours but a man was driving around offering people rides to metro stations across the city.

A couple of hours before Tuesday's earthquake, authorities held a city-wide drill in the anniversary of an earthquake that killed an estimated 9,500 people in and around Mexico City in 1985, one the country's worst natural disasters in recent memory.

"This is one of those moments where we all need to come together," said Dorothy Munoz after she grabbed her dogs and raced to the street after her apartment was shaken by the earthquake.

Less than two weeks ago, a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southern coast of the country, killing at least 90, according to the governor of the state of Oaxaca.

CNN's Jennifer Hauser, Darran Simon, Artemis Mostaghian, Gustavo Ramirez, Elwyn Lopez, Catherine E. Shoichet, Amanda Jackson and Phil Gast contributed to this report.

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&#151; -- At least 230 people, including 21 schoolchildren, are dead after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon, hitting on the 32nd anniversary of the biggest quake to strike the country's capital.

Rescuers worked tirelessly on Wednesday night as reports surfaced of at least one girl -- and possibly other children -- who have been located alive beneath the rubble of the Enrique Rebsamen school.

Yesterday's earthquake was centered about 75 miles southeast of Mexico City and caused extensive damage, leveling at least 44 buildings, including homes, schools and office buildings, according to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who did a flyover of the city Tuesday afternoon.

Among the dead are at least 25 people - 21 students and four teachers - at a collapsed primary school in the south of the capital. So far, 11 people have been rescued, but two students and one teacher remain missing, according to Education Minister Aurelio Nuno.

In Mexico City alone, 52 people have been rescued from damaged buildings, according to city officials.

President Donald Trump spoke with Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday to extend condolences for the lives lost and the damage caused by the earthquake, the White House said in a statement. Trump also offered assistance and search and rescue teams, which are being deployed now.

Rescuers continued to comb through the wreckage, looking for survivors Wednesday, pausing to listen for voices. Relatives told The Associated Press they received WhatsApp messages from two girls inside.

"Children are often the most vulnerable in emergencies such as this, and we are particularly concerned because schools across the region were in session and filled with students," said Jorge Vidal, the director of operations at Save the Children in Mexico.

Hanna Monsivais, the programs coordinator for Save the Children in Mexico, said she has been out on the streets in Mexico City with hundreds of other people trying to help their neighbors. But entire streets have been cordoned off, and numerous buildings are still too dangerous to enter because of damage.

"Volunteers are bringing water, food, clothes and face masks so that they can help the official authorities move all the debris and rocks, because there are still people trapped under buildings," she said.

She added, "Every once in a while, authorities ask for silence so they can hear the people who are still trapped. It's amazing what people are doing for others, but some people are clearly still in complete shock."

Many areas were still without power today, and communications remained limited, Monsivais said.

"This night is going to be tough," she said. "For sure, tomorrow the death toll will rise."

Mexico City's airport descended into chaos as the ground rippled and chunks of plaster fell from walls when the earthquake hit, Dallas resident George Smallwood told ABC News.

"I felt the ground shaking, and I heard everyone screaming and starting to run," he said, adding that he initially thought he was in the middle of a terrorist attack.

Smallwood stopped in Mexico City for a long layover after a vacation in Medellin, Colombia, and spent the day exploring the capital. He was getting ready to go through security at Mexico City International Airport for his 3:35 p.m. flight back to Dallas when the earthquake struck.

Parts of the ceiling were "swinging back and forth," he said, and the panicked crowd took off "running in every different direction."

The tremors lasted for six to seven minutes, he estimated. After the shaking subsided, first responders swooped in to help the injured, and a fleet of military and police helicopters buzzed overhead, he said.

Smallwood's flight was rescheduled for 8:30 a.m. today, so he needed to find somewhere to stay for the night, he said.

Tuesday's earthquake - which hit around 1:14 p.m. local time near the town of Raboso in Puebla state, according to the United States Geological Survey - came 12 days after a magnitude 8.1 quake struck off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, killing dozens of people.

The Sept. 7 earthquake devastated Juchitan in Oaxaca, where at least 36 people died and one-third of the city's homes collapsed or were rendered uninhabitable, according to Mexico's president.

Residents there were still reeling from that quake when they were rattled again Tuesday.

"People, rightfully so, were already sleeping outside because of fear for aftershocks, and then comes this big earthquake," said Eduardo Mendoza, a senior program manager for Southern California-based medical supplier Direct Relief.

Mendoza, who was in the Oaxaca region mobilizing disaster relief, said Hurricane Katia and now two devastating earthquakes have taken a psychological toll on residents, who are too afraid to sleep inside their adobe homes.

Shelters in Juchitan are still filled with children and the elderly, he said.

First responders there have been in a rush to return to Mexico City to help and "focus on what's coming next," he added.

Pena Nieto was supposed to be en route to Juchitan to commemorate the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake of 1985 when Tuesday's quake sent ruinous ripples through Mexico City.

"It was like a kick in the gut for everybody," Mendoza told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "The emergency response teams were here, and a good number of them for two hours were just trying to find their family members."

Thousands of people on Mexico City's main boulevard streamed out of buildings and into the streets in panic when the quake struck.

"I was just paying at the supermarket, and suddenly the floor went boom, boom," Mexico City resident Lara Rodriguez told ABC News on Tuesday. "People were obviously panicking."

She added, "So I rushed out, and I went to get my kid from school to make sure he was OK. Luckily, everything was fine, but on the way there was a lot of debris. There were clouds of sort of dust flowing up as if a bomb had hit or something."

Dramatic photos and video depicted the destruction in Mexico City.

Flames and a large explosion could be seen in a video posted on Twitter, and a window panel was spotted falling from an office building in Mexico City in a video posted on Instagram.

Video recorded inside an office building showed the overhead lights swinging wildly as the ground shook.

Meanwhile, chaos broke out in the newsroom of Milenio, a Mexican news site.

Several cars were damaged by falling debris.

Mexico City, built on a former lake bed, is one of the worst possible places for an earthquake to strike because of its soil, which can amplify shaking by factors of 100 or more, California-based seismologist Lucy Jones told ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. By comparison, in Los Angeles the worst earthquake amplification is fivefold, Jones said.

Earlier in the day, earthquake drills were held in Mexico City to mark the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake, which caused widespread deaths and injuries as well as catastrophic damage in Mexico City.

At the Instituto Morelos secondary school, which partly collapsed, school director Adelina Anzures told The Associated Press that the school conducted an earthquake drill in the morning, just two hours before the quake struck.

"I told them that it was not a game, that we should be prepared," she said of the drill.

When the quake came, she said, the children and teachers rapidly filed out.

"It fell, and everything inside was damaged," Anzures said, adding that nobody there was hurt.

Narciso Suarez of Mexico City said he was attending a meeting on the ninth floor of a high-rise building when he first felt the quake. He said authorities in the building ordered those inside to shelter in place, "at least until the shaking passed."

Suarez, who was also in the area Sept. 7 when the last earthquake struck, said Tuesday's temblor was "a lot worse."

With the previous earthquake, "we immediately evacuated the building, and we saw no damage," he said. "But today ... there are a lot of buildings that have collapsed in this neighborhood. It's really sad."

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon, "God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you."

Vice President Mike Pence echoed those comments, tweeting, "Our hearts are with the people of Mexico City. We're thinking of you and, as @POTUS said, we are with you."

The State Department said in a statement, "We stand ready to provide assistance should our neighbors request our help. Our embassy in Mexico City has sent out public messages to U.S. citizens in Mexico, and the embassy stands ready to provide consular assistance to any U.S. citizens who may have been affected. We offer our condolences to any who were injured or lost loved ones."
ABC News' Fergal Gallagher, Benjamin Gittleson, Matt Gutman, Joshua Hoyos, Bonnie Mclean, Kirit Radia and Robert Zepeda contributed to this report.

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Imprisoned women in the communist nation of North Korea serving time for political crimes are raped at the hands of the security guards, then later executed in a brutal fashion,  and  their babies, if they have any, are fed to dogs. One of the escaped prisoners stated that a common execution was for the other prisoners of the camp to throw rocks at the person that was to be executed, and if they didn't obey they were threatened with execution themselves. "People would throw their rocks hard. Each time a rock would hit the victim, their bodies would burst with blood," said escaped prisoner Park Ju-yong "Their flesh would fall off until you could see their bones. And they would die without execution by gun."

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Imprisoned women in the communist nation of North Korea serving time for political crimes are raped, then later executed in a brutal fashion, according to a new report.

Defectors of North Korea provided graphic testimony to South Korean media about what prisoners face during their sentence, UPI reported Tuesday.

The women are victims of sexual assault in prison camps at the hands of security guards who reportedly often trade sexual favors for less work while in camps.
NORTH KOREAN PRISONERS LOOK LIKE 'WALKING SKELETONS' IN KIM JONG UN'S LABOR CAMPS, OFFICIALS SAY
One particular allegation from a defector "who grew up in a North Korean prison camp for more than two decades" said that women who become pregnant as a result of being raped by guards are removed from the camp and "secretly killed by guards," according to UPI.

The defector, 29-year-old Park Ju-yong, said that after childbirth, the mothers are executed and their newborn babies are provided as food to guard dogs.

Park said the guards are then simply removed from their positions in the prison camps as punishment for their actions.

The executions, according to Park, were gruesome in nature and involved "thousands of stones" in which prisoners had to stone other prisoners, and would be threatened with executions themselves if they didn't participate.

"People would throw their rocks hard. Each time the rock would hit the victim, their bodies would burst with blood," Park said. "Their flesh would fall off until you could see their bones, and they would die without execution by gun."
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A former North Korea prison guard who also defected reportedly confirmed that the prison camps have executions, both publicly and secretly, and said women who engaged in sexual acts with the guards would get "easier jobs" as a result.

The testimony came after a report released in August by the U.S. State Department which revealed that prisoners in North Korean prison camps are beaten to death and starved to the point they resemble "walking skeletons," "dwarfs," and "cripples."

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Imprisoned women in the communist nation of North Korea serving time for political crimes are raped, then later executed in a brutal fashion, according to a new report. Defectors of North Korea provided graphic testimony to South Korean media about what prisoners face during their sentence, UPI reported Tuesday.

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That'll make Maria the first Category 4 or 5 hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years.

In 1932, the San Ciprián hurricane made landfall in late September, pummeling the island for eight long hours.

At the time, the population of Puerto Rico was a little over 1.5 million.

Today, more than 3.3 million people call the US territory home.

San Ciprián, with winds of 145 mph, ripped across the entire island moving from east to west. More than 3,000 people suffered injuries and 225 died.

Another 250,000 had no homes to go back to.

Structural damages totaled more than $1.5 million, according to records kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Now Puerto Rico is bracing for the worst -- barely two weeks after Hurricane Irma destroyed buildings and caused an ongoing mass loss of electricity.

Both President Trump and Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló have issued emergency declarations.

Rosselló urged Puerto Ricans to find safe shelters immediately. Emergency workers, he said, won't be around to help once winds reach 50 mph.

"This is an unprecedented atmospheric system," he said Tuesday.

And it's one that Puerto Rico hopes doesn't leave it in ruins like San Ciprián did.

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That'll make Maria the first Category 4 or 5 hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. In 1932, the San Ciprián hurricane made landfall in late September, pummeling the island for eight long hours. At the time, the population of Puerto Rico was a little over 1.5 million.

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&#151; -- At least 230 people, including 21 schoolchildren, are dead after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon, hitting on the 32nd anniversary of the biggest quake to strike the country's capital.

Rescuers worked tirelessly on Wednesday night as reports surfaced of at least one girl -- and possibly other children -- who have been located alive beneath the rubble of the Enrique Rebsamen school.

Yesterday's earthquake was centered about 75 miles southeast of Mexico City and caused extensive damage, leveling at least 44 buildings, including homes, schools and office buildings, according to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who did a flyover of the city Tuesday afternoon.

Among the dead are at least 25 people - 21 students and four teachers - at a collapsed primary school in the south of the capital. So far, 11 people have been rescued, but two students and one teacher remain missing, according to Education Minister Aurelio Nuno.

In Mexico City alone, 52 people have been rescued from damaged buildings, according to city officials.

President Donald Trump spoke with Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday to extend condolences for the lives lost and the damage caused by the earthquake, the White House said in a statement. Trump also offered assistance and search and rescue teams, which are being deployed now.

Rescuers continued to comb through the wreckage, looking for survivors Wednesday, pausing to listen for voices. Relatives told The Associated Press they received WhatsApp messages from two girls inside.

"Children are often the most vulnerable in emergencies such as this, and we are particularly concerned because schools across the region were in session and filled with students," said Jorge Vidal, the director of operations at Save the Children in Mexico.

Hanna Monsivais, the programs coordinator for Save the Children in Mexico, said she has been out on the streets in Mexico City with hundreds of other people trying to help their neighbors. But entire streets have been cordoned off, and numerous buildings are still too dangerous to enter because of damage.

"Volunteers are bringing water, food, clothes and face masks so that they can help the official authorities move all the debris and rocks, because there are still people trapped under buildings," she said.

She added, "Every once in a while, authorities ask for silence so they can hear the people who are still trapped. It's amazing what people are doing for others, but some people are clearly still in complete shock."

Many areas were still without power today, and communications remained limited, Monsivais said.

"This night is going to be tough," she said. "For sure, tomorrow the death toll will rise."

Mexico City's airport descended into chaos as the ground rippled and chunks of plaster fell from walls when the earthquake hit, Dallas resident George Smallwood told ABC News.

"I felt the ground shaking, and I heard everyone screaming and starting to run," he said, adding that he initially thought he was in the middle of a terrorist attack.

Smallwood stopped in Mexico City for a long layover after a vacation in Medellin, Colombia, and spent the day exploring the capital. He was getting ready to go through security at Mexico City International Airport for his 3:35 p.m. flight back to Dallas when the earthquake struck.

Parts of the ceiling were "swinging back and forth," he said, and the panicked crowd took off "running in every different direction."

The tremors lasted for six to seven minutes, he estimated. After the shaking subsided, first responders swooped in to help the injured, and a fleet of military and police helicopters buzzed overhead, he said.

Smallwood's flight was rescheduled for 8:30 a.m. today, so he needed to find somewhere to stay for the night, he said.

Tuesday's earthquake - which hit around 1:14 p.m. local time near the town of Raboso in Puebla state, according to the United States Geological Survey - came 12 days after a magnitude 8.1 quake struck off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, killing dozens of people.

The Sept. 7 earthquake devastated Juchitan in Oaxaca, where at least 36 people died and one-third of the city's homes collapsed or were rendered uninhabitable, according to Mexico's president.

Residents there were still reeling from that quake when they were rattled again Tuesday.

"People, rightfully so, were already sleeping outside because of fear for aftershocks, and then comes this big earthquake," said Eduardo Mendoza, a senior program manager for Southern California-based medical supplier Direct Relief.

Mendoza, who was in the Oaxaca region mobilizing disaster relief, said Hurricane Katia and now two devastating earthquakes have taken a psychological toll on residents, who are too afraid to sleep inside their adobe homes.

Shelters in Juchitan are still filled with children and the elderly, he said.

First responders there have been in a rush to return to Mexico City to help and "focus on what's coming next," he added.

Pena Nieto was supposed to be en route to Juchitan to commemorate the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake of 1985 when Tuesday's quake sent ruinous ripples through Mexico City.

"It was like a kick in the gut for everybody," Mendoza told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "The emergency response teams were here, and a good number of them for two hours were just trying to find their family members."

Thousands of people on Mexico City's main boulevard streamed out of buildings and into the streets in panic when the quake struck.

"I was just paying at the supermarket, and suddenly the floor went boom, boom," Mexico City resident Lara Rodriguez told ABC News on Tuesday. "People were obviously panicking."

She added, "So I rushed out, and I went to get my kid from school to make sure he was OK. Luckily, everything was fine, but on the way there was a lot of debris. There were clouds of sort of dust flowing up as if a bomb had hit or something."

Dramatic photos and video depicted the destruction in Mexico City.

Flames and a large explosion could be seen in a video posted on Twitter, and a window panel was spotted falling from an office building in Mexico City in a video posted on Instagram.

Video recorded inside an office building showed the overhead lights swinging wildly as the ground shook.

Meanwhile, chaos broke out in the newsroom of Milenio, a Mexican news site.

Several cars were damaged by falling debris.

Mexico City, built on a former lake bed, is one of the worst possible places for an earthquake to strike because of its soil, which can amplify shaking by factors of 100 or more, California-based seismologist Lucy Jones told ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. By comparison, in Los Angeles the worst earthquake amplification is fivefold, Jones said.

Earlier in the day, earthquake drills were held in Mexico City to mark the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake, which caused widespread deaths and injuries as well as catastrophic damage in Mexico City.

At the Instituto Morelos secondary school, which partly collapsed, school director Adelina Anzures told The Associated Press that the school conducted an earthquake drill in the morning, just two hours before the quake struck.

"I told them that it was not a game, that we should be prepared," she said of the drill.

When the quake came, she said, the children and teachers rapidly filed out.

"It fell, and everything inside was damaged," Anzures said, adding that nobody there was hurt.

Narciso Suarez of Mexico City said he was attending a meeting on the ninth floor of a high-rise building when he first felt the quake. He said authorities in the building ordered those inside to shelter in place, "at least until the shaking passed."

Suarez, who was also in the area Sept. 7 when the last earthquake struck, said Tuesday's temblor was "a lot worse."

With the previous earthquake, "we immediately evacuated the building, and we saw no damage," he said. "But today ... there are a lot of buildings that have collapsed in this neighborhood. It's really sad."

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon, "God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you."

Vice President Mike Pence echoed those comments, tweeting, "Our hearts are with the people of Mexico City. We're thinking of you and, as @POTUS said, we are with you."

The State Department said in a statement, "We stand ready to provide assistance should our neighbors request our help. Our embassy in Mexico City has sent out public messages to U.S. citizens in Mexico, and the embassy stands ready to provide consular assistance to any U.S. citizens who may have been affected. We offer our condolences to any who were injured or lost loved ones."
ABC News' Fergal Gallagher, Benjamin Gittleson, Matt Gutman, Joshua Hoyos, Bonnie Mclean, Kirit Radia and Robert Zepeda contributed to this report.

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For the second time in two weeks, a powerful earthquake struck Mexico, toppling buildings, cracking highways and killing hundreds of people.

Just like the deadly earthquake earlier this month Tuesday's temblor caused heavy and prolonged rattling in the capital. Although the two earthquakes struck hundreds of miles apart, they have some similarities, experts say.

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&#151; -- At least 230 people, including 21 schoolchildren, are dead after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon, hitting on the 32nd anniversary of the biggest quake to strike the country's capital.

Rescuers worked tirelessly on Wednesday night as reports surfaced of at least one girl -- and possibly other children -- who have been located alive beneath the rubble of the Enrique Rebsamen school.

Yesterday's earthquake was centered about 75 miles southeast of Mexico City and caused extensive damage, leveling at least 44 buildings, including homes, schools and office buildings, according to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who did a flyover of the city Tuesday afternoon.

Among the dead are at least 25 people - 21 students and four teachers - at a collapsed primary school in the south of the capital. So far, 11 people have been rescued, but two students and one teacher remain missing, according to Education Minister Aurelio Nuno.

In Mexico City alone, 52 people have been rescued from damaged buildings, according to city officials.

President Donald Trump spoke with Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto Wednesday to extend condolences for the lives lost and the damage caused by the earthquake, the White House said in a statement. Trump also offered assistance and search and rescue teams, which are being deployed now.

Rescuers continued to comb through the wreckage, looking for survivors Wednesday, pausing to listen for voices. Relatives told The Associated Press they received WhatsApp messages from two girls inside.

"Children are often the most vulnerable in emergencies such as this, and we are particularly concerned because schools across the region were in session and filled with students," said Jorge Vidal, the director of operations at Save the Children in Mexico.

Hanna Monsivais, the programs coordinator for Save the Children in Mexico, said she has been out on the streets in Mexico City with hundreds of other people trying to help their neighbors. But entire streets have been cordoned off, and numerous buildings are still too dangerous to enter because of damage.

"Volunteers are bringing water, food, clothes and face masks so that they can help the official authorities move all the debris and rocks, because there are still people trapped under buildings," she said.

She added, "Every once in a while, authorities ask for silence so they can hear the people who are still trapped. It's amazing what people are doing for others, but some people are clearly still in complete shock."

Many areas were still without power today, and communications remained limited, Monsivais said.

"This night is going to be tough," she said. "For sure, tomorrow the death toll will rise."

Mexico City's airport descended into chaos as the ground rippled and chunks of plaster fell from walls when the earthquake hit, Dallas resident George Smallwood told ABC News.

"I felt the ground shaking, and I heard everyone screaming and starting to run," he said, adding that he initially thought he was in the middle of a terrorist attack.

Smallwood stopped in Mexico City for a long layover after a vacation in Medellin, Colombia, and spent the day exploring the capital. He was getting ready to go through security at Mexico City International Airport for his 3:35 p.m. flight back to Dallas when the earthquake struck.

Parts of the ceiling were "swinging back and forth," he said, and the panicked crowd took off "running in every different direction."

The tremors lasted for six to seven minutes, he estimated. After the shaking subsided, first responders swooped in to help the injured, and a fleet of military and police helicopters buzzed overhead, he said.

Smallwood's flight was rescheduled for 8:30 a.m. today, so he needed to find somewhere to stay for the night, he said.

Tuesday's earthquake - which hit around 1:14 p.m. local time near the town of Raboso in Puebla state, according to the United States Geological Survey - came 12 days after a magnitude 8.1 quake struck off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, killing dozens of people.

The Sept. 7 earthquake devastated Juchitan in Oaxaca, where at least 36 people died and one-third of the city's homes collapsed or were rendered uninhabitable, according to Mexico's president.

Residents there were still reeling from that quake when they were rattled again Tuesday.

"People, rightfully so, were already sleeping outside because of fear for aftershocks, and then comes this big earthquake," said Eduardo Mendoza, a senior program manager for Southern California-based medical supplier Direct Relief.

Mendoza, who was in the Oaxaca region mobilizing disaster relief, said Hurricane Katia and now two devastating earthquakes have taken a psychological toll on residents, who are too afraid to sleep inside their adobe homes.

Shelters in Juchitan are still filled with children and the elderly, he said.

First responders there have been in a rush to return to Mexico City to help and "focus on what's coming next," he added.

Pena Nieto was supposed to be en route to Juchitan to commemorate the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake of 1985 when Tuesday's quake sent ruinous ripples through Mexico City.

"It was like a kick in the gut for everybody," Mendoza told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "The emergency response teams were here, and a good number of them for two hours were just trying to find their family members."

Thousands of people on Mexico City's main boulevard streamed out of buildings and into the streets in panic when the quake struck.

"I was just paying at the supermarket, and suddenly the floor went boom, boom," Mexico City resident Lara Rodriguez told ABC News on Tuesday. "People were obviously panicking."

She added, "So I rushed out, and I went to get my kid from school to make sure he was OK. Luckily, everything was fine, but on the way there was a lot of debris. There were clouds of sort of dust flowing up as if a bomb had hit or something."

Dramatic photos and video depicted the destruction in Mexico City.

Flames and a large explosion could be seen in a video posted on Twitter, and a window panel was spotted falling from an office building in Mexico City in a video posted on Instagram.

Video recorded inside an office building showed the overhead lights swinging wildly as the ground shook.

Meanwhile, chaos broke out in the newsroom of Milenio, a Mexican news site.

Several cars were damaged by falling debris.

Mexico City, built on a former lake bed, is one of the worst possible places for an earthquake to strike because of its soil, which can amplify shaking by factors of 100 or more, California-based seismologist Lucy Jones told ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. By comparison, in Los Angeles the worst earthquake amplification is fivefold, Jones said.

Earlier in the day, earthquake drills were held in Mexico City to mark the anniversary of the Michoacan earthquake, which caused widespread deaths and injuries as well as catastrophic damage in Mexico City.

At the Instituto Morelos secondary school, which partly collapsed, school director Adelina Anzures told The Associated Press that the school conducted an earthquake drill in the morning, just two hours before the quake struck.

"I told them that it was not a game, that we should be prepared," she said of the drill.

When the quake came, she said, the children and teachers rapidly filed out.

"It fell, and everything inside was damaged," Anzures said, adding that nobody there was hurt.

Narciso Suarez of Mexico City said he was attending a meeting on the ninth floor of a high-rise building when he first felt the quake. He said authorities in the building ordered those inside to shelter in place, "at least until the shaking passed."

Suarez, who was also in the area Sept. 7 when the last earthquake struck, said Tuesday's temblor was "a lot worse."

With the previous earthquake, "we immediately evacuated the building, and we saw no damage," he said. "But today ... there are a lot of buildings that have collapsed in this neighborhood. It's really sad."

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon, "God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you."

Vice President Mike Pence echoed those comments, tweeting, "Our hearts are with the people of Mexico City. We're thinking of you and, as @POTUS said, we are with you."

The State Department said in a statement, "We stand ready to provide assistance should our neighbors request our help. Our embassy in Mexico City has sent out public messages to U.S. citizens in Mexico, and the embassy stands ready to provide consular assistance to any U.S. citizens who may have been affected. We offer our condolences to any who were injured or lost loved ones."
ABC News' Fergal Gallagher, Benjamin Gittleson, Matt Gutman, Joshua Hoyos, Bonnie Mclean, Kirit Radia and Robert Zepeda contributed to this report.

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Hurricane Maria hammers an economy that can't take much more.Hurricane Maria hit the islands on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, threatening lives and promising potentially devastating economic damage.

The island is already deep in a years-long debt debacle spurred by mismanaged funds, archaic energy policies and a struggling economy.

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Puerto Rico is years into an economic crisis. Now it's facing a natural disaster.

Hurricane Maria hit the island on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, threatening lives and promising potentially devastating economic damage.

The island is already deep in a years-long debt debacle spurred by mismanaged funds, archaic energy policies and a struggling economy.

Puerto Rico's government owes $74 billion to bondholders, and an additional $50 billion in pension obligations to teachers and almost all other government employees. In May, it filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico faces another long-term problem: Many residents are moving from the island for the mainland United States, leaving it with few skilled workers to handle the rebuilding and development process.

The territory's population was down to 3.4 million residents last year from 3.8 million in 2004. Persistently high unemployment, along with better job opportunities in the mainland U.S., have pushed Puerto Ricans to pick up their bags and move, mainly to Florida and Texas, according to the Pew Research Center.

Related: How to rebuild an island after Hurricane Irma

The pace is picking up, too. In 2005, nearly 47,000 Puerto Ricans left the U.S. territory for the mainland. Last year: 89,000 left, Pew reports. Puerto Rico's economy has been in a recession since 2006. It's unemployment rate in August was 10.1%, more than double the national average, according to Labor Department figures.

Puerto Rico's government has tried to lure investors and businesses to the island to boost its tax base. It offers major tax incentives to wealthy individuals who own property or start a business on the island. Its current administration is trying to cut red tape to make it easier for investors to buy Puerto Rican debt with fewer hurdles. It also agreed to be subject to a financial oversight board to help ensure it starts to pay down its debts.

However, the oversight board has criticized Rossello's administration this year for its lack of progress on creating a sustainable debt-payment plan. Rossello argues that the criticisms are unfair and that the island's government is making progress.

Puerto Rico was spared a direct hit by Hurricane Irma, though hundreds of thousands of people lost power and some structures were badly damaged, officials said.

--Jill Disis contributed reporting to this article.

A version of this article was published on September 18.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 20, 2017: 7:41 AM ET

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Hurricane Maria’s eye has left Puerto Rico, but the mammoth storm is still lashing the island with devastating winds.