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Warning and getting ready? hurricane dorian, catastrophic >> chris, good morning to you. that mandatory evacuation order category 5 hurricane continues for the barrier islands here in to move slowly across the bahamas lashing the island chain brevard county, coco beach where i am now, merritt island, indian with 200-mile-per-hour wind harbor beach, that went in effect about an hour ago. you can see it is pretty much a ghost town here behind me but firsts and inundating storm surge 23 feet above ...

Make. now, as we go to the north and also the east, the cone of concern does include the coast at this point by wednesday, thursday, friday. so now by thursday were getting into south carolina, category 2 storm, right off the coast. i mean, painfully off the coast. and, you know, with this storm its been very inconsistent. the consistent thing about it is that its been so inconsistent. so they wobble back and forth. and we do need to have those players in place thats going to steer it and they c...

Certainly its a terrible night and has been a horrible day in the bahamas. unofficially reports. thats what we feared. unfortunately the catastrophic conditions will continue because its such a slow moving storm. unfortunately a prolonged period of activity of really intense weather and storm surge, up to 20 feet. it will delay any kind of recovery or relief that the area will get. >> i know we dont like to focus on the central like, but two of the hurricanes-specific model, have it landle near ...

Strongest most destructive winds are. you dont want to be outside of forecast, old timers, ive been this thing. through category 1s and category >> which is where freeport 2s. they need to leave? was -- >> freeport, all of grand bahamas. watch the last couple frames. right there. >> the emergency managers it inched north ward. responsible for people in their for the first time in 24 hours counties, as a rule of them from we finally are watching this go most ive talked to, they assume north. come...

The strong winds. as a precaution, airports in weeks, we have been fortunate fort lauderdale and palm beach that we seem to be out of the cone and can breathe a sigh of have shut down and mandatory evacuations are under way in at relief. although, anytime you have a least nine counties. seven others have issued monster storm such as this, sitting off of your coast, its voluntary evacuation orders. now, despite the uncertainty of important that you maintain v where and when the storm might hit, s...

So lets take a look, 155 miles per hour, thats a very powerful storm still, wind and rain machine, seeing that still over the next five days. moving still at 1 mile per hour, moving very, very slowly. i want to talk about the movement. its terrible for the bahamas. its a nightmare situation. its a better situation, though, that is moving slowly for florida because that allows the players to get in place. the steering mechanisms that will hopefully turn it off to the north and also the west. lets...

North of freeport. if its over on freeport or west of it, then were on this side of the cone. we had it to take a turn as early as possible. thats what well be watching tomorrow. that would be the million dollar question. just how close does it get to the east coast? some of our computers do take it an landfall here, so well wait to see how it plays out. once again, we still have the chance of a major hurricane maybe to jacksonville, is a vsa. a number of commercial airlines, theyre waiving ca...

This data thats has it coming in tuesday a.m. with 150-mile-an-hour winds. im really still uncomfortable from west palm with this major hurricane we are seeing. even though we dont have land fall in that area, still very significant. this continues to go on. we talked about this storm last saturday. well be talking about this [ growl ] storm this saturday at 2:00 a.m. good boy. now it is starting to hit the hey. hey. northeast. jersey with the potential cone you must be stevens phone. here. wilm...

Of the northern bahamas, or the extreme damage was in the eye of the storm. those people had only gone through half of the storm. we have yet to see what the pictures like look towards the second half of the storm after the back went through, which is typically sometimes the strongest part of the storm. dont think that the pictures youre seeing now really tell the story. it will probably be two times as bad, if not worse. all of our friends from the georgia coastline through south carolina, nort...

For days now. from the standpoint of fema, trying to muster some kind of response for this, to be prepared for contingencies, how do you handle that uncertainty. >> fema has had folks in florida, theyve got foelks in georgia, north carolina, south carolina. the way they approach this is they assume the worse case. they didnt just immediately shut down florida and move north. they have resources in florida. they are moving resources to other states. the real focus is on the evacuations. go back t...