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Tropical storm winds extend some 180 miles away from the center. youre going to feel tropical storm force winds within the next few hours. notice how close the storm gets towards charleston. city well known here for being surrounded by three bodies of water, two rivers and also, of course, the ocean just in front of town here, really going to want to see all the water want to surge into charleston harbor. making the landfall potentially into the outer banks of the carolinas before it really move...

View of some of the damage there in the abacos, miles and miles of what was a tropical paradise has been reduced to rubble. incredible aerial shots there. and the airport in freeport is still closed. just one look at damage there, of course, explains why. the death toll in the bahamas now stands at 20 and that is expected to rise. well, cnns patrick oppmann has an exclusive report from freeport. coming up, our paula newton is on the island of abaco and our derek van dam is standing by in charles...

Flooding a major, major concern. the forecast totals among the highest weve seen. can pick up as much as 10 to 15 inches of rainfall. you factor in the water being pushed in on shore from the charles ton harbor area, significant storm surge across this region. heres the area of sustained hurricane forced winds. notice the time stamp over the next few minutes into the next couple of hours. charleston pushes in. wilmington, myrtle beach and it will be here for seven to eight hours. it makes landfa...

Grueling next 12 to 24 hours as hurricane dorian scrapes the coast. >> the wind gusts flapping. sheet metal is a dangerous situation thats why the authorities are saying shelter in place. dont be out there trying to take a look. >> yes. >> thank you so much, derek, for that. meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. derek showed us whats there. what are you sneeg. >> absolutely. between right now and 7 to 8 in the morning, thats when the heaviest rain is ...

Tremendous amount of rainfall in the past several hours. were beginning to see really heavier bands to push toward this region in the next few hours. some of the models indicating potentially 15-plus inches of rainfall in charleston and places like isle of palms. all of this could be a catastrophic sort of scenario for places such as charleston with a storm such as this, category 3 parked just offshore. landfall potential here going to be most likely thursday overnight and into early friday morn...

You see the debris and you witness that for yourself, you realize how lucky people felt to come out of this storm alive. when you look at the devastation and you see the amount of people that are missing, it was traumatizing just listening to people talk about all of the people they could not account for, and that is the terrifying thing for everyone here right now. and in the middle of all of that theyre trying to put together their lives. theyre doing the best they can. today was a good day at...

Coming up. our paula newton is on the island of abaco and our derek van dam is standing by in charleston, south carolina. but first we want to go to our meteorologist pedram javaheri, who is tracking the storm. he joins us now from the international weather center. so, of course, were hearing about this flooding in charleston and were worried about this 1:00 p.m. high tide that is a few hours away now. >> thats right. yeah, we had a 1:00 a.m. high tide and a 1:00 p.m. one going to be coming here...

Land and was just once a marshy landscape sitting right at sea level. so youre going to bring in a lot of water to the city when youre talking about 5, 6, 7 feet of storm surge will cause significant damage. beyond that the storm skirts up the north carolina coastline and we think landfall will happen between, say, thursday night into friday morning. on the outer banks of the carolinas. thats the highest likelihood for the storm to cross over lapped. beyond that, it quickly skirts away from the ...

Eastern-southeastern seaboard. once we get in say thursday morning well begin to see a pinch impact period there from charleston on into myrtle peach, potentially wilmington and the hatteras region for the highest likelihood of areas for the category 2 system. watches have been issued across this region. model guidance pretty consistent on trying to skirt the storm away from the state of georgia, potentially away from south carolina, but it looks like north carolina has the highest likelihood he...

Thursday morning. so we think this is going to be the most likely scenario for this storm when it comes to thursday across that region. >> pedram, thanks so much for keeping a very close eye on that. were going to check back in with you again very soon within this hour. appreciate it. well, cnns patrick oppmann and his crew have been riding out the storm in one of the hardest-hit areas, freeport, bahamas. entire neighborhoods are inundated, homes, buildings, and cars are destroyed. and many ar...