{"id":7342,"date":"2017-09-20T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/20\/hurricane-maria-category-5-storm-batters-caribbean-live\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T02:04:11","slug":"hurricane-maria-category-5-storm-batters-caribbean-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7342","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Maria: category 5 storm batters Caribbean \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storm heads for Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, leaving island of Dominica devastatedWhere is Hurricane Maria heading? Mapping the path of destructionPuerto Rico braces itself for \u2018worst atmospheric event in a century\u2019If you\u2019ve been affected by the storm you can share your story here 3.04am BST A 10pm update from the US National Hurricane Center warns that \u201csustained hurricane-force winds should start on St Croix soon\u201d.St Croix is the largest of the US Virgin Islands, home to around 50,000 people. 2.58am BST Norbert Figueroa is reporting for the Guardian from San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, and sends this update:The number of displaced people has increased exponentially in the last three hours, going from less than 500 to over 4,400 and counting. Local authorities still urge everyone in danger zones to move to one of the 500 shelters immediately.Luis Mu\u00f1oz Mar\u00edn airport has already reported wind gusts of up to 42mph (68km\/h), which speak of the magnitude and strength of Hurricane Maria, considering it is still located about 160 miles (250km) south-east of San Juan. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2017\/sep\/19\/hurricane-maria-category-5-caribbean-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Maria: category 5 storm batters Caribbean \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm heads for Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, leaving island of Dominica devastatedWhere is Hurricane Maria heading? Mapping the path of destructionPuerto Rico braces itself for \u2018worst atmospheric event in a century\u2019If you\u2019ve been affected by the storm you can share your story here 3.04am BST A 10pm update from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}