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Mentioned, one mile per hour. it is stuck, it is churning, it is dumping all kind of rain, creating all these flatters that you see that will potentially worsen. patrick oppmann has been in the middle of it in freeport, in the bahamas, all day. how bad is it where you are? >> reporter: well, the wind and the rain just will not stop. it has been hours of this of the late last night early this morning, first the power went out. and then it southbound -- it sounded like a jet engine near where we w...

You, erica. >> all right, patrick. we will take it. it is remarkable. glad you and the crew are staying safe there. we lost johns shot for a minute. but i think youre back with us now. there he is. >> i am back. you can imagine, erica. with the water and the rain and the sand and the wind, sometimes the equipment goes on the fritz here. but were back up and running. i have to say patrick oppmann, it was amazing to get that forecast there. i want his team to stay safe. lets bring in the captain o...

>> thats right. as you said, we will see much worse than is already happening right now. thats no matter what. thats best case scenario. the conditions will get worse than even this. and there are mandatory evacuation orders underway up and down the florida coast. in a few hours, mandatory evacuations in georgia and the carolinas as well. it is starting to come down much harder right now. but again, one of the narrow bands chad was talking about. this is nothing compared to what they are experie...

Flooding takes place in their homes. and the great concern here as the storm moves away is, of course, the storm surge. because predictions are there could be a storm surge over 20 feet. why is that so terrifying? because the bahamas are incredibly low lying. people told me they were going to ride out the storm on those islands. where we are here in freeport, the highest point of land is only 30 feet high. so a storm surge coming in 15, 20 feet high will wipe out houses, will flood whole neighbo...

Thats when the wind will pick up. when the band goes by and the sun will come out, the winds will die down again. 165 miles per hour. moving west, slightly north of west at 1 mile per hour. here is the radar. now there is freeport. our patrick oppmann is right there. this over here in marsh harbor, this is abaco. this is the area that got hit so very hard when it was 185 miles per hour. im seeing a northward drift just a little bit. maybe im being hopeful, but i do see it. it is beginning to tur...

Hurricane-force winds. if you travel west of i-95, i expect a lot of those areas to get the hurricane-force winds. wolf. >> thank you. well get back to you. for more than a day the red cross says the storm has had a catastrophic impact and locals are calling the devastation unprecedent brianna cnns patrick oppmann is in freeport in the bahamas. patrick, what are you seeing now? >> reporter: dorian is not yet done with bahamas. it is still lashing us, leveling certain areas. if i was not in this ...

Florida. so thats going to be an issue its initiated by the police and there as well. crucial day for tomorrow. 77% support when its initiated i know we say that every day by a family member. with the storm, but that turn to the north has to happen soon or and what this means in the case were going to be in a lot of florida, the police can work bigger trouble. with the courts to seize the guys? >> all right. ivan, thank you. >> thank you, appreciate it. weapon of anyone that is at risk well, h...

We have seen videos all day long coming out of marsh harbour of people who lost roofs, who have cars flipped over in the street near where they are, people who have shown us videos of communities underwater. that will repeat itself here in freeport as the winds pick up here, as the rain dumps perhaps over a foot of rain and water here. as that storm surge rises perhaps to 20 feet. were on an island where the high point isjority of the isla be underwater. surrounding islands will be completely su...

Patrick oppmann is in freeport. we have been watching conditions get worse. now its dark. this will be a very and frightening night for the people of freeport. >> reporter: probably the most terrifying night of their lives. the people who live here in freeport where we are feeling the wind slowly pick up. that will continue for hours and hours until people really will not be able to believe the strength of the winds. a strong category 5. the strongest hurricane the bahamas has ever experienced. ...

All right. welcome back. john berman here in jensen beach, florida. this is cnns special live coverage of hurricane dorian. here we go. this is the beginning of one of those outer bands passing through. just had some driving rain to go along with the steady winds we had here. a hundred mielgs that way the center of the storm continues to pass over grand bahama island. freeport getting hit very hard. well check in with our patrick oppmann who is there riding out the storm. here everyone is watchi...