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These vessels sank on St. John, US Virgin Islands, during Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Maria could bring 20 inches of rain to the US and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, leading to flooding and mudslides. And Guadaloupe, a key staging ground for post-

Hurricane Maria bears down on battered Caribbean

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Hurricane Maria strengthened to a Category 3 storm on Monday as it bore down on Caribbean islands still recovering from megastorm Irma.

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