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President trump points to an altered weather map to make his claim that dorian threatened alabama. Did he personal use a sharpie marker to redraw the cone of uncertainty . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The new forecast is just in as Hurricane Dorian hammers the carolinas with powerful winds and torrential downpours. Up to 15 inches could fall, while sturges driveorm surges d of water ashore. Along with that lifethreatening combination, the storm has spawned tornado...

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Are passable. we had contractors who are stationed in grand bahama who are working with the ministry of public works teams to try and clear the road, to get to east grand bahama. because that is, of course, where hurricane dorian would have made its first landfall on grand bahama. so we need to get out there to make sure, to find out what the situation is there. >> melanie, let me get your assessment right now on the death toll. i think the official death toll currently stands at 20 people who w...

International search and rescue teams. and they are doing the house-to-house assessment. so until the government gets an official count, i really would not wish to speculate on the number of persons who have perished. >> far enough. i ask the question, melanie, because, as you know, after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico, the initial death toll was relatively low for several days, but for nearly a year after the hurricane, the official death toll was only 64 before it was eventually revise...

Baseball field just so they could get helicopters in. they havent seen any government aid. everyone here is trying as hard as they can, but it is going to take a gloervebal effort, inclu the united states, the u.s. coast guard has been up and down the coast already, but it will take all of that and more to try to get these people back on their feet. >> thanks to your excellent reporting and your entire team. thank you so much, paula, for that. joining us on the phone, melanie roach, shes the dir...

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...

Operation where locals have banded together and are using whatever means necessary, jet skis, small motorboats, heavy equipment to conduct rescues. we have the defense force. we have the police force. and we are assisted by many international organizations who have experience in urban search and rescue. so there are, i would say, literally hundreds of persons on the ground doing search and rescue as we speak. >> melanie roach, good luck to you. kbluk dpl good luck to all the people in the bahama...