>> we'll be thinking about her for a long time. thank you all for joining me tonight. erin will be back with you tomorrow night. ac 360 starts now. >> good evening, we begin with breaking news on hurricane dorian, which is hitting the carolina coast right now and has done when the prime minister of the bahamas is calling generational devastation to his country. i spoke with the prime minister just before the program, and he says the death toll is now 30, and that he expects it to rise further. you'll hear that conversation with the prime minister shortly as well as chef jose andres about the state of his food relief effort. on top of that there is the president who again and again kept turning to the falsehood he tweeted subbed about alabama being in the storm track. one political reporter last night called the behavior, quote, pathological. that was before developments all day today. we begin, though, with the real story about the real storm and what it's doing to people, real people who don't live in the white house. for that want to start off with cnn meteorologist jennifer gray. let's talk about the storm,