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They are in the bulls eye for that weather today. we are going to see the battering winds, the dangerous rain, and also the push of water on to the islands. winds at 165 miles per hour, still a very powerful storm. but keep this in mind. it was as high as 185 miles per hour. so we are seeing a little bit lessening, maybe a little land friction brought it down. maybe a little wind shear. that is the good news. with every advisory yesterday we saw it going up. we finally are seeing it stabilized a...

Georgia and south carolina under mandatory evacuation orders. >> and for the very latest lets bring in meteorologist janessa webb. you have been watching this storm since the weekend. how do things look right through? >> i wish i had better news for the bahamas here. it continues to get worse as this storm system has started to stall out right now its out of the west at 1 miles per hour. throughout the weekend we saw about 8 miles per hour yesterday, it diminished to 5 miles per hour. this is sl...

Lauderdale or palm beach are closing or will shut down later today. and the u.s. geological service said dorian can cause beach erosion all the way from florida to north carolina. and now a director of meteorology for underground weather.com. thank you for being with us. youre more familiar than most people about hurricanes. what stands out to you as the most unusual about this one? >> this storm was the strongest category 5 we had ever seen make landfall. 185 miles per hour winds is very rare i...

Major cat 4 potentially hitting that area. so really too close for comfort. i do want to show you with the wind speeds were talking about sustained winds of 165 miles per hour, with gusts. even if we do not see the landfall at west palm theyre dealing with over 185 miles an hour. this is the big difference, geoff and yas mine here look at wilmington. we have a potential landfall now for friday, gusts up to 120 miles per hour. so lots of changes. >> how confident are we in the current path, becau...

Somebody shooting from the restaurant, the bar of the restaurant? whats going on? >> and you can catch much more of that tomorrow morning on the today show and here on msnbc. last look now with bill. what do you got? >> steve, freeport is starting to get into the heart of the storm. wind gusts and eventually tonight the hurricane will move in. that will be the next area that will see the destruction of a category five hurricane. one of the strongest storms weve recorded in our history. its reall...

Next time on "american swamp." >> i never thought at election school one day id be talking about the worlds greatest democracy, vietnam. low voter turnout, voter suppression tactics and accusations of election fraud. >> is americas election system rigged? >> im nbc news meteorologist, bill karins, news from the national hurricane system. dorian has peaked in intensity during the day with 185 miles an hour winds, down a smidge, 180 miles an hour winds still extremely catastrophic with one of th...

All right. as the top -- its the top of the hour on september 2nd, labor day, im yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett and susan del percio will be with us all hour. hurricane dorian is a category 5 storm and right now the bahamas is getting pounded as the storm heads to the united states. this is video from the abacos where dorian made two landfalls. we are getting reports of widespread damage across the islands from ripped off rooftops to overturned cars and who knows what else with maxim...

Of the west here. we need it to shift here well to the north and east. until we see that, you can see that little bit of a wobble. if you come closer here you can see the eye trying to shift a little bit here. but until we get an update when we see a potential north-northwest shift were not out of the clear yet for west palm beach. >> then also i visited a lot of those amazing beautiful islands in the bahamas over the years and a lot of low-lying areas there, 185 miles an hour max sustained wind...

So the florida is waiting for this storm as it barrels across the bahamas. of course, earlier this afternoon the bahamian prime minister confirmed that at least five people have been killed in the bahamas has at category 5 storm rolled through. now its a category 4 and were waiting to see what the impacts will be here on the florida coast, chris. >> thank you, gabe gutierrez, in cocoa beach, florida for us. now we turn to msnbc meteorologist bill karins who has the latest on the path of the hurr...

Jeff master is the director of meteorology and co-founder of weather underground. jeff, appreciate your voice in this situation. as a former hurricane hunter you have an incredible understanding of the power of this storm. what is your major takeaway from the updates we have been getting so far as dorian progresses towards the east coast of florida? >> you dont see many storms like this. i mean 185-mile-per-hour winds at landfall in the bahamas. they took an unprecedented pounding there. i mean,...