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Welcome back to cnns live special coverage of hurricane dorian, now a category 4 storm with max sustained winds of 155 miles per hour. very close to a category 5 but a slight downgrade in the speed of those winds. im standing on jenson beach here under a mandatory evacuation as this storm continues to crawl across the bahamas. i have an update from florida governor ron desantis, announced that 72 nursing homes or assisted living facilities for senior citizens have evacuated along the coast of fl...

Well continue our coverage of hurricane dorian in just a few minutes but right now we want to bring you the latest on another big story. the countrys latest moose shooting that killed seven people in west texas. were learning more about the victims and the gunman. "the new york times" says the 36-year-old responsible for the ram panel was fired from his trucking job just hours before the attack. cnns scott mclain is with us from odessa, texas, where police killed the gunman after a high-speed ch...

Rosa flores is there. i understand youve been getting a little rain? >> yeah, it looks like were getting one of the outer bands, which is what we were expecting today. you can see behind me we definitely are seeing high tide and the winds have picked up. this is what the cnn weather center told us we could expect. these bands that are wet, windy and brief. the barrier island where im live right now is under a mandatory evacuation and as you can see from these boarded buildings, businesses are de...

Taking the brunt of hurricane irma right now. cnns patrick oppmann is there. patrick, what are you seeing? what are you feeling there? >> reporter: victor, very strong winds, very strong eye rain. all night long. it just screamed, the wind here. were actually in a town that is under water, if you can believe it. thankfully, were on a second story of a house. the coast which was about 50 yards away yesterday has now moved well past us in the town. the main street which we walked yesterday now has...

But right now he lives in grassy key by marathon. it took him 20 hours to go from the keys to jacksonville. 20 hours because the traffic is so bad. right now, the traffic is clear. victor. >> all right, chad myers for us there in the center weather center. a bit of the wall taking a bit from cuba. lets go cnn meteorologist derek van dam in miami beach. tell us, what makes the storm so dangerous in the latest from the advisory of the national hurricane center, people really wont feel the differen...

Several years before moving to cnn. some of my friends here have made that long drive to atlanta to get out of florida. governor rick scott is now telling people if you have not gotten on to the roads up to midnight, which is almost six hours ago now, is this not the time to get on to the roads. go to a shelter if youre on the evacuation area. this is the time to make that decision to get out of these areas where there are mandatory evacuations. we know that shelters across this area are filling...

Thankfully, i have a well stocked refrigerator. i have a huge ham i out in public. bought it out, it will last a week. >> lets hope -- the first four hours and a little more than that. hopefully, your power stays on, although the expectation from florida power and light is that up to 9 million people could be impacted by this storm. andy guerra-mondragon, thank you for spending some time on "new day." well check on you after the storm, all right. >> will do. >> andy, thank you so much. well co...

>> like a war zone. everything is blown out. >> reporter: this is the wrath of irma, now on the move. irma has shown her strength. the reason so many fear what is headed to florida. leila santiago, cnn, barbuda. >> our thanks. lets bring in reed timmer, accuweather storm chaser. reed, good morning to you. i know you were on key largo, just a few hours ago. the advice from state officials and weather experts like yourself is that it will be difficult, maybe impossible, for some people along the k...

Officials say more than 10,000 people have already lost power this morning. were expect be a new update on hurricane irma from the national hurricane center at any moment right now. it usually comes out at the top. hour. lets go to chad myers, in the cnn weather center. category 5, tell us where its expected? >> yes, the storm is just leaving the coast of cuba. and cuba did take some stuffening out of the storm. bad news for cuba, but good news that the storm has weakened right now. i dont belie...

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