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Of 110, 115. were finally moving this thing. northeast at 13 miles per hour. its going to begin to accelerate toward morehead city and outer banks. in about 12 hours it will be past cape hatteras. in the hurricane center, had it making landfall morehead city to cape lookout, beaufort area. now theyve shifted it a little offshore. were not even guaranteed that were definitely going to get that landfall. doesnt matter as much. only reason to be concerned about that is some of the strongest winds a...

Devastation thats there. >> you know, were in the living through the front edge of an era of increasingly extreme weather and climate disaster and climate crisis. are we getting better as a sort of civilization at dealing with disaster preparedness and rescue and rebuilding? >> nope. >> were not? >> no. we tend to build back the way it was. we tend to plan for what were capable of and then we hope its not that bad. climate change, you can talk about it all you want to. i think we need to be talk...

Going to hear from senator cory booker, but we want to get more of your questions now for former congressman beto orourke. so lets bring in now -- i want to bring in peggy shepherd, congressman. bring her into the conversation. she is a co-founder and executive director of we act for environmental justice, based in new york. >> right on. >> new york city. getting lots of applause. a group that fights for equal environmental protections for people of color and low-income residents. peggy, whats y...

Melanie roach, the director of public works for the bahamas national emergency management agency. thank you once again. lets get some more on whats going on in the bahamas. joining us now, storm chaser brandon clemente who shot extraordinary images of the devastation in the bahamas. hes joining us live from boca raton in florida. thanks so much, brandon, for joining us. thanks once again for all the good work youre doing. tell us about the destruction you personally saw. >> well, when i first fl...

We have very substantial building codes in the bahamas, but i dont think anything could have prepared us for hurricane dorian and the tremendous wind and surge that the island was subjected to. we have just about every building has suffered some sort of damage. the majority of buildings have suffered extensive damage. and there are quite a large number of buildings that have been totally destroyed. with regards to the roads, they have seemed to have held up pretty well. we are in the process of ...

It doesnt feel that serious here at the moment. you can see there is clearly wind blowing, but there are some vehicles out here. they tend to be work vehicles and official vehicles. the problem here is its going to be a lot of flooding. its going to be a category 2 hurricane by the time it gets as close to charleston as its going to getably be tens of mileses off the shore. its going to be east of where we are, but this place floods at the best of times. im in the historic city. ruth chris here ...

To nova scotia but not as a hurricane. rest of today in wilmington, were targeting you from 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. its really going to be about 10:00 p.m. to about 3:00 a.m. thats the peak of the storm for you. if we get 80 to 100-mile-per-hour gusts on shore it would be in the wilmington area. last high tide cycle that we have a chance for significant storm surge flooding. hurricane center had said a potential for five to eight feet. myrtle beach had a storm surge of two feet. tide level up to ...

Party. it doesnt feel that serious here at the moment. you can see there is clearly wind blowing, but there are some vehicles out here. they tend to be work vehicles and official vehicles. the problem here is its going to be a lot of flooding. its going to be a category 2 hurricane by the time it gets as close to charleston as its going to getably be tens of mileses off the shore. its going to be east of where we are, but this place floods at the best of times. im in the historic city. ruth chri...

Of the wind. it was unlike anything id ever seen. this thing was off the charts. >> you used the eye of the storm to relocate. tell me about that. >> when we raeltzed when the calm came and we came out and looked at how bad the building was, rerealized we had to relocate. we piled into the few cars still functioning and we got to a government complex nearby. and residents from every direction were rushing to this building from the poorer low lying neighborhoods that had been swept by a tremendou...

And newer construction with the 150 miles per hour building codes. didnt farewell. some had slight damage. many had complete roofs missing and significant damage. even though its homes that were made to with stand the worst probability. not the worst possibility. but the probability. we had 185 miles per hour cat 5. sit on the island for 18 hours. >> you shot this earlier today. by the time you shot this, im wondering where there people on the roof or waiting to be rescued? had that part played ...