Hundreds of volunteers, soldiers and police are frantically digging through ruins of a collapsed Mexico City school in hopes of finding survivors in the wake of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.
They have found the bodies of at least 25 students and teachers underneath the rubble.
Outside the school gates, rumours ran through the crowd of anxious parents that two families had received text messages from girls trapped inside, though nobody could say for sure whether it was true.
There are at least 248 confirmed fatalities so far in Mexico's deadliest earthquake since 1985.
And, in Puerto Rico, thousands are bracing for Hurricane Maria's direct hit this morning.
The record-breaking Category 4 hurricane -- with sustained winds of 155 mph (250 kph) --is the first storm of its strength to hit the US territory in nearly 80 years.
Conditions are expected to worsen between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Wednesday, when the storm's eye wall -- and the strongest winds that it will bring with it -- hits the eastern coast of the island.
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