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Tracking dorian for us at this hour, nbcs david guerra joins us from naggs head and morgan chesky is joining us from the bahamas. morgan, well go to you first. the rescue efforts, daunting to say the least. >> reporter: yeah, alex, good afternoon. sorry. we are having some interference issues because of the active rescue efforts that are ongoing behind me. we have military helicopters that have been flying out as of first light going to abaco island which took the brunt of dorians power when tha...

There are generations before them, grandparents, great grandparents and parents themselves. they still put and are hard convinced to leave. they are hurricane and weather savi. so im sure they are prepared. we all need help every once in a while. >> this is for sure. mayor jerry jones in morehead city, south carolina. thanks for being on the show to give us that update. appreciate it. bill keurpbs is tracking dorian from our nbc news weather center in new york. you tweeted an hour ago that doria...

Thats where we always see the greatest danger. until this pulls out, look at the winds coming in and around dorian. stumpy point, a wind gust of 69. elizabeth city, 43. buford 27, 28 in washington. this wind wrapping all around dorian is going to have to then pull up and out. and well still have windy conditions behind it as well. heres the track we see right now. it is just about parallel to new jersey by later this evening. then it makes its way further out. the thing is right now tropical for...

Help. andrea snu. >> thank you, stay safe. al roker, what is the storm track right now? youve been tracking dorian all week. back in the weather center in new york. what are we seeing going up the coast? >> were seeing this behaving more like a traditional hurricane. its been defying conventions over the last several weeks. and basically it was where it made landfall, you can see cape hatteras. a little further to the south, this thing would have hugged the coast and then gone out into the atlan...

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Forces with the bahamian officials in getting much needed water and food to those people. upon driving through marsh harbour with our crew yesterday, we encountered several hundred people outside of a clinic. i asked them, person after person, have you been getting anything so far? the answer was only so much has come in at this point in time. one of the goals everyone has is getting fresh drinking water. a woman told me that you heard from in those strings of interviews, the last real meal she ...

Looking at the aftermath of all of these, the stories of humanity are comforting for everybody, including yours. thank you very much for sharing the story of your loss and how you will rebuild with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> thank you. in south carolina, 1400 members of the national guard have been activated before the aowe rival of dorian, they staged these high water vehicles throughout the region so they would be able to help out afterwards. debris removal teams are available whe...

Lookout as the winds come in perpendicular. if you notice these feeder bands, this is a good 118 miles to wilmington. but the feeder bands are well in advance, this is a scene that some of the heaviest rainfall. we call it training, where its one thunderstorm after another. so flooding taking place with these feeder bands, well before the center moves to this region. flooding could be a big issue, not to mention as you said, the storm surge of 4 to 8 feet. i think theres a possibility of a land ...

Others say if theyre afraid if they go too far away, it will be too hard to get back to their houses. what i can tell you is, thats still the case this afternoon, even as the storm moves further away. we have 110 road closures in and around the charleston area. people wanting to come back earlier, trying to assess the damage in their homes, might have a tough time getting back. >> of course, driving back to your house once the storm has passed is also dangerous with all of those floodwaters. tha...