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That and the glass house. count on it. >> heres the storm now. really close to the coast. i think the worst of the winds on the u.s. and the bahamas and about to see it across areas of north carolina, this is the trajectory of the storm in the short term that is tomorrow morning. by tomorrow afternoon, its offshore. you think oh, thats good. you look at this. you see cape cod and the islands, youre fine. but we think the hurricane force winds here. thats the red. now take a look at this. it just...

George h.w. bush. a treat there. thanks for joining us on "the daily briefing." im dana perino. up next, shepard smith. >> shepard: 3:00 in the east, noon in the west. reporting begins with hurricane dorian. it spins up the east coast. right now the carolinas are in the crosshairs of this deadly category two storm. hundreds of thousands of people are right now without power from georgia to north carolina. the historic port city of charleston is getting the worst at the moment. city officials say...

Jacqui? >> shep, the western eye wall of the storm is about 10 to 15 miles off the coast of here. the eye of the storm is about 35 miles to the east of the bay to our north. were really feeling the wind. if you look in the harbor, you can see the sail boats are bobbing around. at one point we couldnt see to the other side of that bridge. there was a lull between the winds. gusts around 110 miles an hour. the national hurricane center measured -- weve been getting gusts at 80 miles an hour, a buo...

Mandatory evacuation order for three counties to our south. that being said, the final say is in the hands of local officials as to when they open up the roads. so as the storm tracks northward, we can expect conditions to improve. the tropical storm force winds are going to linger in the next several hours, shep. >> jacqui heinrich. lets go to elliot semey. how are you? >> thanks, shepard. >> neil: how is everybody? >> everybody is tired. we think the worst is behind us. we have a couple of hou...

You can see the eye. the closer it gets to land, that interaction messes it up and well see that the next couple hours, a lot of wind with this. on the coast, the winds are in the 60 miles an hour range, this buoy offshore had a wind of 98 miles an hour. thats at the center of the storm. well have those winds translating along the coast. weve had a lot of flooding and a lot of tornadoes. wove had ten reports of tornadoes, significant damage in north carolina. so watch that throughout the reminde...

The outer banks. this is the future radar. probably sometime tomorrow morning, a landfall around cape lookout. that is the center of what we talked about, as if its a single point. obviously its a big storm. its going to bring a lot of rain in norfolk, virginia. a little rain coming towards cape cod and the islands eventually from this. the storm will expand in its size as it moves north. while the center winds will go down, that expanse will go out quite a bit. take a look at this. this is the ...

Storm surge. waveland, the whole coast just rubble. thats what it looks like where that eye came ashore in abaco. this is what is left after the flood waters rose 23 feet. the winds were 185 miles an hour sustained, 220 miles an hour gusts and went on and on and on. like a tornado that beats you up for days. the bahamian prime minister that says that the abaco islands suffered generational damage. this woman is standing on a concrete slap. it is the slab which once held her home in marsh harbor ...

Ms we are taking the brunt of hirk irm and for more than 100 miles from the center winds blowing about 50 miles an hour with hurricane force gusts ripping through the city. >> do not leave your home. in dade brower county orney else. the only vehicle we have seen out here, a lone police cruiser. they tell us that they are not responding to emergency calls because its simply going to become too dangerous for first responders to go out. >> yrn if yi dont know if you out the sand that has made it...