And a mission of mercy to a Remote Island cut off by dorian. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting tonight from myrtle beach, South Carolina. Odonnell and good evening. This is our western edition. We are really beginning to feel dorians fury here in the united states. This is the fourth straight night weve been covering this hurricane, but this is the first time we were nearly blown over by its winds. The Hurricane Center is less than 50 miles from where we are standing. The storm now stretches 690 miles from top to bottom. That is bigger than north and South Carolina combined. Now, along with the wind and the rain, dorian is now spinning off tornadoes, about 15 so far, including one in North Carolina that wiped out an r. V. Park. Electrical wires have been snapping and transformers glowing. Nearly 250,000 homes and businesses have lost their power alone here in South Carolina. And charlestons lost about 150 trees. The most immediate danger here in the carolinas is flooding from the storm surge, and potentially more than a foot of rain. Today in the bahamas, the official death toll was raised to 23, but, again, that number is expected to rise dramatically. By one early estimate, damage tops 7 billion. Tonight Hurricane Dorian is headed slowly up the coast, top winds at the center about 105 miles an hour. The forecast has it moving near or over the North Carolina coast early tomorrow in what could be its first landfall on the u. S. Mainland. We have a team of correspondents following dorian and were going to begin with jamie yuccas, who is about 100 miles south of here in charleston. And jamie, charleston has really been right in the thick of it. Reporter they have. Conditions are starting to improve. Thats the good news. The bad news were getting our first look at the damage. And you can see theres a lot of debris, including trees that have toppled into roadways. You can hear saws up and down the streets working to clear this as fast as possible. Dorians eye closed within 55 miles of charleston, bringing with it gusts of more than 70 miles an hour and almost a foot of rain. Most businesses boarded up downtown, except for coffee shop one broad street, where employees took refuge on the second floor of this concrete, civil warera building. So you stayed here last night. Yeah, tent city. Reporter why . The storm was looking kind of rough, and didnt want to drive back over the bridge last night. Reporter this was always the greatest concern in charleston flash flooding. You can see the waters are above my knee. And while we may have gotten a break from storm surge, its still raining and has been for quite some time. Downed power lines and exploding transformers left almost 200,000 residents without power in South Carolina. The governor urged people to stay home. Fallen trees and debris littered much of charleston, but there were those who refused to hunker down. What possessed you guys to grab your fishing pole and come out . My love for fishing, i guess. Its been my dream to do it in a hurricane. Reporter i just talked to power crews here on scene. They tell me that they will be working 24 hours a day to get power restored, but with 200,000 people without, thats going to take some time. Norah. Odonnell all right, jamie, thank you so much. Dorians winds and rain are damaging enough, but its outer bands are also spinning off tornadoes. Jonathan vigliotti is in emerald isle, North Carolina. Jonathan, one of those twisters i understand caused a lot of damage. Reporter norah, all of this wind whipping up one strong tornado, powerful enough to flip over mobile homes, completely damage vehicles and toss around all of the belongings that were inside. All of this as residents were actually here preparing their homes for the hurricane. A monster before the storm. The tornado in emerald isle started as a water spout but came ashore leaving a path of destruction. The damage is extensive, permanent mobile homes ripped through and gutted, belongings scattered on the street. The boardwalk r. V. Park was boarded up ahead of dorian, but plywood and sandbags was no match for what struck hours earlier. John flick and his wife were in their home finishing up storm prep when the twister hit. So we took shelter. Reporter you and your wife. Me and my wife and the cat, took shelter. We went into the bathroom. Power went out. We were there less than a minute. Reporter roofs of homes ripped off, others tossed like toys. Tornado sirens echoed throughout the carolinas, tornadoes touching down from North Myrtle Beach to pender county. At least 15 tornadoes in all. No calm before the storm here. Im damn lucky. Reporter and flick tells me amazingly nobody was majorly injured in this tornado. But now all of this debris, norah, could become projectiles as dorian closes in. Norah. Odonnell all right, jonathan, thank you. The damage here pales in comparison to what we saw when we flew in a coast guard plane over grand bahamas and abaco islands. 180mileanhour winds tore through neighborhoods like a buzz saw. We also met people like sandra cooke, who was just learning the fate of one of her relatives. What are you most worried about . Well, i actually have a lot to be grateful for right now. My family was flown in this morning. My brothers roof collapsed on my sisterinlaw. She was trapped underneath the roof for 17 hours. He couldnt find her. The dog found her. But he couldnt get her out. So it was 17 hours later that neighbors were able to come and help. Odonnell just terrifying, and many hurricane survivors have been flown out of the hurricane zone to nassau, which was spared. Our Nikki Battiste is also in nassau and has heard some incredible stories from those who made it out. Glad to be alive. This is the second time in my life. It should ended reporter but 75yearold doug lived to tell a harrowing story of survival after his home, a boat, was swept away, leaving him in debrisfilled water. I spent hours like this. Reporter water up to here . Yeah. Reporter he was rescued from abaco island yesterday, and flown to princess et hospital, he says just in time to save his legs from amputation. Believe in god. Reporter about 13 miles from the hospital, helicopters continue to fly in survivors, like oneyearold reign and her mother ostina dean. What kept me going was the child. That was it. I looked at her and i was like, nope, my baby is not going out like this. Reporter her entire family was rescued from abaco island today, including 11yearold zion. My heart just stopped. Like, i stopped. Like, i was panicking. I couldnt i opened my eyes wide. I couldnt believe what i was seeing. Everything gone. People going into the water with dead bodies. All over, dead bodies. Reporter for now, ostina says theyre heading to stay with family in nassau. Were alive. Reporter but their future is still unclear. Do you have any idea where youll be in a month, two months . No. Hopefully still alive and were here. So were hopeful, and were going to we made it through that, so were going to do our best to make it through this. Reporter hospital staffers here at the airport are ready to get more wounded survivors off planes and into ambulances. Norah, a hospital representative told me some patients are so distraught after losing their family members, theyre saying they want to die. Odonnell oh nikki, that is unimaginable. Thank you. Tonight, Errol Barnett is getting on a supply ship out of nassau. It is loaded with desperately needed supplies and headed for grand bahama island. Reporter supplies cant be loaded fast enough. Bahamaians at the capitals Ferry Terminal are anxious to send essentials to family and friends in freeport. They dont have no foodstuff, nowhere to buy it because the food stores overflowed. Reporter this ferry will make its first trip to grand bahama island since Hurricane Dorian devastated it over the weekend. This shows you the scale of the effort to get to the hardest hit areas. Behind me, folks lined up to buy a ticket to get on the ferry to freeport. These supplies will sit along 16,000 pounds of goods sent by American Airlines for said staffers. Operations agent darcel radon says her family is stranded. Its so terrifying. Its really hard, you know. Reporter we will be aboard this vessel and be a part of its ninehour, overnight journey to freeport. But there has been a further delay. The captains assistant tells us theyre still cleaning up the main port there on grand bahama island, so it can receive this aid. Norah. Odonnell all right, errol. Thank you. Hopefully that gets there soon. Meteorologist megan glaros from our chicago station wbbm is tracking dorian. And megan, i understand these next few hours are going to be very critical. Absolutely, norah. Because not only are we looking at potential storm surge for parts of the carolina coastline. Were also looking at fresh water flooding, tornadoes, and the hurricane itself. All these things come together. And what were dealing with at the moment here you are in myrtle beach. And just offshore is that center of circulation. Now the eye is becoming a little more ragged at this point. Interestingly enough, its not necessarily right by the eye where we have the concerns over potential tornado activity. Thats essentially in what we call the rightfront quadrant. So thats right here. And its been parts of North Carolina where tornadoes have been the highest threat today. Now, where does the storm go from here . First of all, we know it is a category 2. It is weakening. Running into cooler water, more sheer, friction from land. All of these things are serving to weaken it a bit. Its moving northnortheast at eight, and lets take a look at that track which essentially has it gone pretty much 24 hours from now. Now while the storm may leave by the weekend, norah, i can guarantee you the national Hurricane Center is going to retire the name dorian. Norah. Odonnell no doubt, megan. Thank you so much. President trump now claims he has further proof that he was right when he said on sunday that alabama would be impacted by hurrican dorian. Yesterday he held up a forecast map which showed alabama in dorians path. But it appeared to be doctored. Late today he tweeted four National Weather service maps showing the state with a 5 to 10 chance of tropicalstorm force winds. The maps were from last thursday and friday and were out of date by the time he made the claim. There is breaking news from southern california, where a wildfire is now threatening 2,000 homes. Its burning near the city of murrieta. Thats about 75 miles southeast of los angeles. Fire Officials Say it may have been sparked by lightning yesterday. Strong winds caused it to flare up today. And late today, federal investigators revealed a possible cause of mondays dive boat disaster. 34 people were killed when the boat caught fire and sank off Santa Cruz Island in southern california. Kris van cleave has our update. Reporter investigators tell cbs news they increasingly believe the fire started on the ships second level, known as the galley, trapping 34 people below deck, their only two exits blocked by fire, including a small escape hatch above a bunk bed. Did it surprise you how small the second exit was . It did. It surprised me how small it was. It surprised me how difficult it was to access. Reporter in lengthy interviews with n. T. S. B. Investigators, the surviving crew members described harrowing moments after the fire started. They tried to enter through the double doors and couldnt get in because of the flames. They tried to access the galley from the front, through the windows, but the windows wouldnt open. And at some point, because of heat and smoke and fire, they had jumped from the boat. Reporter among the possible causes the n. T. S. B. Is considering, did lithium ion batteries used to power the passengers underwater cameras or lights malfunction during charging and overheat . It can take the n. T. S. B. A year or more to determine if those batteries or Something Else started this fire. To do that, theyve got to raise the boat, and the effort to raise it is being stalled by increasingly strong winds here over the next few days. Also, the n. T. S. B. Is trying to figure out which crew member acted as the night watchman and what that person may have seen. Norah. Odonnell all right, kris, thank you so much. 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