Light. Hello. Youre watching special coverage of Hurricane Dorian. Dorian is weaker this morning but packing a powerful punch moving along the carolina coast. The National Weather service is recording sustained winds up to 90 miles an hour. And as dorian inches closer, almost 290,000 homes are in the dark with transformers blowing out. This is new video youre seeing here from thursday night. As you can sea, sudden loss of power. This was in wilmington, virginia. Now up to 20 suspected tornadoes left trails of destruction tossing around mobile homes in emerald aisle. And we have video of another suspected tornado moving across white oak, North Carolina. The other big story today, the rising death toll in the bahamas now at least 30 people are dead. Officials expect that number to go significantly higher in the coming days as more rescue workers are trying to reach as many victims as possible. All right. We have extensive teach coverage on the ground. But first lets begin with meteorolog
rescue helicopters. the national guard has obviously got a long history in helping communities across the united states. in the state of north carolina, what is the specific concern for you and what are the biggest factors impacting the response so far? what lessons have you guys learned from the past that you are applying this time around? well, the experience that our soldiers have with six hurricanes, joaquin, maher vee, matthew, michael, florence, and maria. all of our soldiers and airmen have been involved with just the wealth of experience in terms of dealing with mainly floodwaters has been our main impact. with this storm it is more wind than we ve dealt with with the past few storms. but we re waiting to see what kind of damage we ve got out there in terms of that. the floodwaters has been something we ve worked with. and making sure that our soldiers are protected with the right protective equipment as they go into the floodwaters and