Recovery efforts are underway in Cuba after Hurricane Rafael slammed into the island, leaving millions without power. NBC News' Guad Venegas has more on how the country is reeling back from the hurricane.
Rafael was moving west across the Gulf of Mexico Friday morning as the first major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in November for almost 40 years, bringing the threat of life-threatening conditions to the southern United States coastline. Forecasters said the storm could cause dangerous surf and rip-tides across the whole Gulf region in the coming days, after causing havoc in Cuba where millions are still without power. As of 4 a.m.
The country's entire power network collapsed, the state-run operator UNE said, plunging the nation's 10 million people into darkness — the second full blackout on the island in the last month — with many areas still unconnected. More than 283,000 people were evacuated, 98,300 from the capital, authorities said. The capital Havana, with 2 million people living in densely packed and largely old buildings, is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters.
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