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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar.
This is the Daily.
Today, as Hurricane Maria tears apart the Caribbean,
island leaders, still reeling from Hurricane Irma,
are going before the U.N.
to say that these storms are not just devastating.
They're a humanitarian crisis.
And that humans are to blame for the storm's getting worse.
It's Friday, September 22nd.
Senior meteorologist Janiceen is live in the Fox Extreme Weather Center.
Boy, the Caribbean has just been getting hammered.
And the fact that we're dealing with another category five in just a matter of weeks,
we haven't seen two category fives in a row since 2007.