Officials begged Puerto Ricans in the path of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm heading toward the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, to get out as fast as possible. “You have to evacuate. Otherwise, you’re going to die,” said Puerto Rico’s public safety commissioner. “I don’t know how to make this any clearer.” As of about 5 a.m. Tuesday, Maria was moving at 9 mph with sustained winds of 160 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Officials have called the storm, which had developed a “dreaded pinhole eye,” “potentially catastrophic.”

Demonstrators in St. Louis say police used excessive force and chemical spray against bystanders who were not even taking part in this weekend’s protests after the trial of a former cop who shot a black driver. Activists question whether police went overboard in trying to control the crowd, by reportedly using the controversial tactic known as “kettling” on protest groups—by surrounding them with officers and forcing them to remain in place. Pedestrians were arrested along with doctors, legal observers, a freelance photographer, and others, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. “It was the most brutal arrest I’ve ever experienced in my life,” said activist Tony Rice. “I thought I was going to die.” Meanwhile, police are investigating whether some officers were chanting “Whose streets? Our streets” during Sunday evening protests, as numerous press outlets reported. A judge found Jason Stockley not guilty of murder last Friday.

President Trump said Monday night that the U.S. is prepared to “take further action” in Venezuela if the “growing crisis” persists. Speaking at a dinner at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Trump called the situation “totally unacceptable.” He added, “The Venezuelan people are starving… The country is collapsing, their democratic institutions are being destroyed.” Trump directed blame at Venezuela’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, and said the U.S. must “take important steps to hold the regime accountable.” The president also plans to mention the crisis in Venezuela during his speech to United Nations member states Tuesday, according to senior White House officials. During the 10:30 a.m. talk, Trump will reportedly ask for increased pressure on North Korea to relinquish its nuclear arsenal.

A German court has fined three people for allegedly stepping over and around a neatly dressed unconscious elderly man in a bank to get to cash machines. It took a fifth person to arrive and call an ambulance, according to security footage from the October incident. (The fourth person was considered unfit for trial.) The 83-year-old victim, whose family asked that he not be publicly named, died in a local hospital about a week after the bank incident. “No one wanted to help,” said the district court judge, Karl-Peter Wittenberg, when he announced the verdict. The three convicted bystanders were a 39-year-old woman, a 55-year-old man, and a 61-year-old man.

Realistic costume design is always a challenge, but it proved especially tricky on “The State”—writer/director Peter Kosminsky’s four-part National Geographic series about life inside ISIS—because there’s so little reliable material about the Islamic State. “A lot of what’s out there is propaganda, so it becomes a challenge to get beyond that,” says costume designer Joanna Eatwell. “For example, everything you see is all men. You don’t see any women on the streets, and you’re not allowed to photograph women, so that made it quite difficult for us.” To overcome that hurdle, intense research was undertaken, including tracking down actual male and female ISIS garb, which was then recreated by Eatwell’s team.

Equally important was fashioning clothes that reflected something important about the characters who were wearing them—even when, in the case of female protagonists, they were often cloaked, head to toe, in identical black outfits. “We tried to create the costumes so that even though they are all dressed the same, you instantly know who’s who as they all wear it differently,” she says. “Every niqab is different, for example—so there’s lots and lots of detail in there, which people won’t necessarily pick up on immediately, but it is information which tells them who is who as they start to recognize the silhouette.”

Don’t miss a rare glimpse into the world of ISIS recruitment. The two-night miniseries event, The State, continues tonight 9/8c on National Geographic.

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Initial reports indicate Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated the small Caribbean nation of Dominica on Monday night, with 160-mph winds tearing roofs off buildings and leaving “mind-boggling” damage, in the words of Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. As the storm blew out, Skerrit took to Facebook: “So far we have lost all what money can buy and replace. My greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains.” Adding that his own roof was “gone” and his home was flooded, Skerrit said crews were standing by to go out to help trapped and injured residents. “We will need help, my friend, we will need help of all kinds,” he wrote. Maria, the strongest storm on record to hit Dominica, is expected to strike Puerto Rico on Wednesday.

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Amid mounting criticism over Burma’s crackdown on its Rohingya Muslim community, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday appeared to shrug off international concerns of ethnic cleansing. Despite the exodus of 400,000 Rohingya refugees, Suu Kyi claimed that violence against the minority group is limited and “more than half” of Rohingya villages are peaceful. Delivering a speech to foreign diplomats in Naypyidaw after skipping her planned speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Suu Kyi invited foreign diplomats to visit so they could see for themselves why residents are “not at each other’s throats in these particular areas.” Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has faced intensifying criticism amid reports that Burmese security forces are indiscriminately burning down homes and brutalizing Rohingya residents in Rakhine state. Despite warnings from a top U.N. official that the situation is a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” Suu Kyi on Monday said “solid evidence” would be required before any action is taken. “We are a young and fragile country facing many problems, but we have to cope with them all. We cannot just concentrate on the few,” she said.

Equifax learned of a major breach of its computer systems in March—five months before the date it says millions of consumers’ personal and financial data was exposed, Bloomberg News reports. Citing three sources familiar with the situation, the report said the March cyberattack was thought to have involved the same culprits behind the more recent breach, even though the company has said the two attacks were not related. The company hired a security firm in both cases and may have thought the first breach was under control when it learned of the second one, two sources cited in the report said. The credit-reporting agency disclosed this month that some 143 million U.S. consumers were affected by a data breach between mid-May and late July. News of the prior breach comes as federal prosecutors announced they are working with the FBI to investigate the incident. The actions taken by Equifax executives in response to the breaches are also expected to face scrutiny by federal prosecutors, The New York Times reported.

Authorities at Georgia Tech advised students to stay indoors Monday night, warning of violent protests at which at least three people were arrested following the fatal police shooting of a student over the weekend. Georgia Tech spokesman Lance Wallace said in a statement that about 50 protesters marched to the campus police department late Monday, where one police car was damaged and two police officers suffered minor injuries. The protests came shortly after a vigil for 21-year-old Scout Schultz, a campus Pride leader who was shot and killed by police Saturday night after allegedly refusing to put down a knife. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is probing Schultz’s death, said Monday that the 911 call that led police to the university campus on Saturday night came from Schultz. Three suicide notes were found in his dorm room, investigators said.

Toys “R” Us filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, saying “financial constraints” have been holding the toy chain back. With much of the company’s debt stemming from its $7.5 billion leveraged buyout in 2005, the toy retailer said it plans to “restructure its outstanding debt and establish a sustainable capital structure that will enable it to invest in long-term growth.” The toy chain secured $3 billion in debtor-in-possession financing to remain open while it restructures. The toy chain, which hasn’t shown an annual profit since 2013, said business will continue as usual at its 1,600 stores worldwide during the Chapter 11 process.