Page 5 - Tracking Dorian News Today

Surfaced online of a punching bag taking a jab at him. this is great. rob: it is good. jillian: good way to take an embarrassing moment and have fun with it. have a good day. brian: all right. here we go again. straight to a fox news alert. hurricane dorian gaining strength as it heads towards the united states of america on a path to slam florida. the category 1 storm bypassing puerto rico, thankfully but slamming several caribbean islands. katie: in st. thomas you can see -- island of saint jo...

Morning after it was forecast to be right in dorians crosshairs. 3 million residents of this u.s. territory spent days preparing for the worst. instead, the schools are going to reopen here today. the airports and ports will be back to normal operations as the storm makes its way out to sea. the u.s. virgin islands thought so lucky. dorian wiped out power to st. thomas and saint croix and st. john. curfew was put into effect in the virgin islands last night. should be lifted some time this morni...

Governor that florida has the full support of the federal government as residents prepare for the storm. again, puerto rico really dodged a bullet on this one. they were wiped out by maria just two years ago and the residents were still shell shocked and worried about what dorian might do here, guys. steve: all right. rick on the beach there in san juan. lets go now to adam klotz. i have been reading a lot about it one of forecasters in orlando suggesting this could be the worst storm to hit flo...

Declared there in florida. meanwhile, folks in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands are breathing a bit of a sigh of relief as hurricane dorian swept past them, resulting in far less damage than many had feared. weve got team coverage this hour, tracking dorian. al roker is here in the studio with us, msnbc correspondent marianne atencio is live in miami beach and kathy park in florida. what are you seeing? >> craig, you and i talked about it today, on the "today" show, that we generally tell...

Threatening puerto rico. lets go now to msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman whos been tracking dorians path. what are you seeing now? >> were seeing some strengthening. had is like the little engine that coo could. now were seeing 70 miles per hour winds. you can see it has increased in size. were looking to the north and west. were looking at puerto rico now getting in that outer ring. but this is the big change as of the latest advisories. 70 miles per hour. thats very, very close to a cat o...

60 miles per hour. 74 miles per hour. that is a cat 1 storm. we are moving at 13 miles per hour. that is good news for puerto rico. we will move pretty quickly over the eastern part of the island. here with he go with tracking dorian the next several days. we expect 70-mile-per-hour winds. close to a cat 1 storm. there is that increase. we are over very warm waters of the caribbean. that helps to give the fuel to the storm. thats what we are expecting now. were not expecting it to make the land ...

Lets look at satellite. still bigger than it was yesterday. the path changed drastically since last night. may continue to inning what the next several hours. we have we are looking at the outer bands now touching eastern parts of puerto rico. it pass over the eastern parts of puerto rico. not making a whole lot of landfall. looking at tracking dorian here. leeward islands seeing heavy rain. that will move off to the north and also the west, impacting puerto rico today. we will pay close attenti...