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In this Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, photo, damage is left after Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda. Hurricane Irma battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday as the fearsome Category 5 storm continued a rampage through the Caribbean that has killed a number of people, with Florida in its sights. (AP Photo/Anika E. Kentish)

Irma’s victims in the Caribbean brace for another hurricane

By ANIKA KENTISH and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

A man surveys the wreckage on his property after the passing of Hurricane Irma, in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Heavy rain and 185-mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's northeast coast as Irma, the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever measured, roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible hit on South Florida. (AP Photo/Johnny Jno-Baptiste)

Hurricane Irma brings death, destruction to the Caribbean

By Danica Coto and Anika Kentish - Associated Press

Men load recently purchased wood panels to be used for boarding up windows in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

The Latest: Puerto Ricans lose power; Barbuda devastated

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Vehicles line up to get fuel at a Tom Thumb gas station in Shalimar, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, ahead of a possible strike by Hurricane Irma. (Michael Snyder/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

The Latest: Florida AG fighting price-gouging as Irma looms

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After loading the back of her vehicle with food Maria Minier loads a recently purchased wood panel to be used in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Hurricane Irma hits first Caribbean islands

By Anika Kentish and Danica Coto - Associated Press

This Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Irma nearing the eastern Caribbean. Hurricane Irma grew into a powerful Category 4 storm Monday. (NOAA via AP)

Powerful Hurricane Irma bears down on Caribbean islands

By ANIKA KENTISH and DANICA COTO - Associated Press

People put up a steel sheet over a window in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Fort Road, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that could eventually take it to the United States. (AP Photo/Johnny Jno-Baptiste)

Hurricane Irma takes aim for Puerto Rico, Florida

By Anika Kentish and Danica Coto - Associated Press

Trump declares emergencies as Hurricane Irma intensifies

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This Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Irma nearing the eastern Caribbean. Hurricane Irma grew into a powerful Category 4 storm Monday. (NOAA via AP)

The Latest: Bahamas to evacuate islands in path of ‘Irma’

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in all of the state's 67 counties in advance of Hurricane Irma. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it nears Caribbean

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Fans wave flags of Puerto Rico as compatriot Ivan Rodriguez speaks during his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Sunday, July 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

EDITORIAL: Cleaning up Puerto Rico’s mess

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this July 24, 2017 photo, Noel Sola, a cultivation worker at Natural Ventures carries marijuana plants in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Medical marijuana is legal in 29 U.S. states, but legislators in the largely conservative island of Puerto Rico had been reluctant to embrace an industry that the island’s treasury secretary says could generate up to $100 million a year in part through a sales and use tax, as well as help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent, the highest compared with any U.S. state. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Puerto Rico betting on medical marijuana to help ease crisis

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

Man linked to Puerto Rico drug ring arrested in North Dakota

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In this July 7, 2017 photo, a monkey stares out from its enclosure at the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The economic crisis afflicting Puerto Rico for the last decade has also taken a toll on the island’s only zoo, with critics saying it is sorely understaffed and struggling to care for its animals on a limited budget. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Rico economic crisis hits island’s only zoo

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

In this Monday, June 26, 2017 photo, Ricardo Negron works at his office in Orlando, Fla., where he runs a community center. Negron, who trained as a lawyer in Puerto Rico, said he doesn't have the time or the money to take off three months to study for the Florida bar exam to practice law. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Some Puerto Ricans struggle to find careers in Florida

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 8, 2014 file photo, the photos of slain police officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, right, are displayed at a news conference in Las Vegas. Earlier in the day a man and a woman ambushed the wo police officers while they were eating lunch at a Las Vegas pizza restaurant, fatally shooting them before fleeing to a nearby Wal-Mart, where they killed a third person and then themselves in an apparent suicide pact.(AP Photo/John Locher, File)

A list of police ambush killings in the US, its territories

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2017 photo, a no parking and one way sign stand next to the deteriorating wall of an abandoned building in the historic area of Puerto Rico's capital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nearly 40 key buildings in San Juan's metropolitan area are in danger of being lost, according to Andy Rivera, an architect who founded the Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawing Society. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Rico struggles to save historic buildings amid crisis

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

Illustration on the fiscal plight of Puerto Rico by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Puerto Rico statehood may buoy island’s fortunes

By Cal Thomas

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, left, greets former Major League Baseball player Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, in his hometown Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) ** FILE **

Puerto Rico upholds statehood demand in contentious vote

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2016 file photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her two-month-old son, Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. According to a report released Thursday, June 8, 2017, on the impact of Zika virus in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, about 1 in 20 Zika-infected pregnant women had babies with birth defects. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Zika birth defects in US territories similar to other places

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press