Puerto Rico officials continue to work to help more than one million people affected by a blackout ahead of Easter weekend festivities. The massive power outage started at about 12:40 p.m. on April 16, when the Puerto Rico Governor's Office said a failure in the transmission of the electrical system plunged 1.4 million customers into darkness.

More than 400,000 Puerto Ricans left without water service as power company scrambles to restore critical facilities.

A major power outage hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday after all of the island’s power plants went offline, according to Genera Puerto Rico.