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All five crew members, somehow made it off that boat safely, and now there are questions about all of those passengers and how they became trapped below deck. so we have a live report with the investigation coming up for you. but for now, we want to go right back to john in florida. >> reporter: all right. and we are getting new information about the track of this storm, and the forecast. so lets go right to chad myers in the weather center, and chad, hurricane dorian has continued to surprise, ...

Chad indicated, the internal structure of the storm at its core is not nearly as organized as it was when it was at its cat 5 peak intensity. when it was at peak intensity, we had a 12 mile diameter eye that was like a buzz saw. it was almost like a, if you can imagine, a 12 mile wide tornado with winds of 185 miles per hour. that no longer exists. its a 35 mile diameter eye thats very ragged on radar. a lot of it has opened up to the south and southwest of the center. so its lost about 40 milli...

>> good evening, shannon. the outer band of this storm are absolutely here. we have seen gusting wind, pelting rain as intermittent bands pass through, but the storm surge is really the story. im going to step out of the way so you can just see how violent the surf is. look at those huge swells just pressing that retaining wall. weve lost about 20, 30 feet of beach in the last couple of hours and the waves have really begun to kick up. so for the coastline here has largely escaped 185-mile-an-ho...

Dorian was at its peak intensity at category 5 storm, we had an eye wall that was about 12 miles in diameter that was like the best way to describe it was a buzz saw. just incredibly intense contact eye wall. and we do not have that any longer. its expanded out to about 35 miles in diameter now. its rather ragged and poorly organized. and so, as a result, the pressure inside the eye right now is about 40 millibars higher than when it was at peak intensity. its gone from about 910 millibars to 95...

Kissimmee and other places across the state of florida today. lot of older folks willing moved out of their homes to safer ground. lot of them said they wanted to stay put but they started watching the forecast and heres what they said. >> well, i was all set to stay home until they had to turn the water off. i would have done fine. i had plenty of food there that i could eat cold or, you know f the power went off. >> im more scared about this one than i have ever been in one in florida before. ...

With 185 mile-an-hour sustained winds so that story is still unfolding unfortunately for our friends in the bahamas. and as that southern eyewall continues to bring all of the storm surge, all of the heavy rain and unfortunately those major hurricane-force winds. lets look at it. 8:00 a.m. advisory came out. it is moving to the northwest at one mile-per-hour. were going to start to see that influence of the trough. it is weakening. it is going through an eyewall replacement cycle which the storm...

>> you can see it is setting over the eel isles. marsh half borrow, bakers bay, there is no video coming out of there because it is still under a hurricane for lack of a better term, so the couple of pictures you have seen sees every tree stripped bare, entire parts of that eel eel leveled -- that island leveled to the ground. >> you would think a tornado came through. >> you were talking roughly about 200-mile per hour gusts, sustained winds at 185 miles per hour. that san and f-3, f-4 tornado ...

The bahamas, i think if we can share some more of, this it takes a while to get in there after a storm goes through like this. but they are still getting impacts from the storm. the storm still bringing a lot of rain. but look at this ariel video coming out. i believe this is from the abaco islands, marsh harbor the damage is extensive. you can still see places flooded. the storm surge comes. in doesnt go out right away. they probably got about 30 inches of rain. and when this came on land right...

Bahamas for two days. river. officials say damage to the islands is unprecedented. the number of dead is expected this is freeport on grand bahama to rise. idea. this is far from the worst of the u.s. coast guard helping it. that will likely be where the rescue-stranded people in the bahamas. storm came ashore on marsh helicopter crews shot this photo of a marina, dozens of boats on harbor and great abaco island. top of each other. precious little reporting from we have team fox coverage. abaco ...

Together what happened. they will try to identify the victims, possibly with dna, and notify the families. >> sandra: more details coming on that. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> bill: back here at atlantic beach, hurricane dorian on the move after bettering the bahamas. still moving so slowly. 1 mile per hour to the north and northwest. in its wake, five dead, causing historic damage, more on the preparations here in florida. a player bracing for impact. the former fema director, brock long,...