Destruction left behind. The official death toll in the bahamas is now 30. But the Health Minister says this. The public needs to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll. Thats how hes putting it. That ominous warning confirming what everyone has feared. That the number of people who have perished there will be soaring once they get their arms around what theyre dealing with. First lets get to the cnn weather center. Allison chinchar is standing by with the latest on where Hurricane Dorian is and is headed at this point. Whats the latest . Brand new update at the top of the hour. Weve noticed that forward speed picking up. Now moving to the northeast at 17 miles per hour. So a much faster pace than weve seen the last several days for sure. What thats going to do is take the worst of the winds, some of the heavier rain bands out to sea. But its going to take it some time. Even moving at 17 miles per hour, youre still going to be able to get several more hours of the gusty winds and the heavy rain bands here. You can still see we have numerous wind gusts along the coast of 40, 50, even 60 miles per hour. The heavy rain bands will also continue and some of those outer bands as they push back into portions of North Carolina as well as virginia also still have the potential for tornadoes. Do keep that in mind. We have over 20 reports of tornadoes just the last few days. We do have flash flood warnings and flood watches for numerous states here thats likely going to last for several more hours because even as those rain bands exit, its a lot of rain. It takes time for that rain to go somewhere. Portions of north and South Carolina picking up 10 inches of rain. Wilmington over 9 inches. They set a daily rainfall record yesterday. We do still expect some additional rain. Most of it likely up to maybe an additional 2 inches. That may not sound that bad. But remember its on top of 6, 8, even 10 inches of rain thats already fallen in some of these areas. From here the storm goes back out to sea. Notice some of those outer bands still push some heavy rain into places like portland, maine, hartford, even around the boston area. So later on this evening were still going to see some impacts from this. The good news is cities like boston arent going to have as significant of the impacts as places like the carolinas and georgia and florida did. And as youre talking about it. Were going to try to get to them in just a second. Thank you so much. But theyre getting hit with one of those bands right now. Were going to get to alexandra field in North Carolina to see what the latest is there. Theyre still getting hit with tough stuff. Right now lets get back to the bahamas and the skarpy warning coming from the nations Health Minister when he said prepare for unimaginable information. Officially the death toll stands at 30 but it stands at unknown. Another Government Official there tells cnn hundreds and up to thousands of people are still missing. Survivors are telling some truly heart breaking stories. Adrian farrington, he is one of those stories. He says that he was caught wading in the water with his little 5yearold son that you see there. He says he put his son on top of a roof to protect him and was climbing up to join his son, but be fr he could, a gust came through and pushed his boy into the surge water. And that was the last he saw of his son. Right now he is being treated for broken bones that he suffered from and he told the paper this. I still could remember him reaching for me and calling me daddy. Thats there just are no words for that. There are no words for that. That is just one story coming from the bahamas. Cnns Patrick Oppmann has been in the bahamas since before the hurricane hit. Patricks joining me now. I can only imagine, patrick, the accounts that you have heard. What are you seeing there now . Were seeing just utter devastation, destruction. The only reason we havent been able to show you these pictures before is we couldnt get here. Only yesterday afternoon were the waters low enough we drove through two spots where a car was almost completely swallowed in the water that still remained. And this is what roads look like in east grand island bahama. This is the hardest hit area. Category 5 winds came through here. Storm surge of 20 feet or more. And you can see where the road is now and where the road was is the difference from my feet to above my knees. It is just absolutely torn off sections of road, whole houses. And we were talking before about the death count. We know from residents that yesterday they recovered five deceased people from this small town. Town of only 300 people. High rock in the eastern bahamas. Probably cant find it on the map. Its certainly not on the map now. But the residents say another 14 people who rode out the storm here that no one has heard from. They are officially missing. But if theyre not here and their families dont know where they are, you just wonder where they could be. Could they have been evacuated . No. These people have been holding on by fingernails here and help has not arrived here. Weve been handing out people water pitwhich is a precious commodity. They say what government has come here has not brought any supplies and you understand that even freeport where were staying, supplies are slow to move in there. Help is slow to move in there but here it has not arrived at all. Were still seeing coast guard helicopters and planes fly overhead. Essentially for everybody in this part of the bahamas, remember were talking about the hardest hit part of this island in the bahamas, as hardest hit as you can get. The category 5 storm stalled out here for 50 hours, residents tell us. And help here has not yet arrived. Help is yet to arrive here. They need help. They need help today. I would have said, you were on a beach not a road in the slightest unless you had shown us. Now when you see patricks shot there, you can understand how residents say they themselves cannot even recognize or point out their neighborhoods because it is unreck nazable, patrick. People say like a bomb hit. But its so much worse because therell be one house im looking at a house here thats badly damaged and the house next door, they said they were talking about their neighbors. I said theres not a house there. Then i look at the house, there were foundations. You realize that the storm came and this is important to notice. The storm surge didnt come from the water next to me. The storm surge came from the north. Miles away and it came over these houses, submerged these houses. The house im referring to is just the foundation. The family inside is one of the missing families. The house was taken off the foundations like it never existed. Probably in the ocean. You hope the people got out in time. We just dont know. Now its been a week. The storm hit here a week ago friday night. And help has yet to arrive. You know authorities are doing everything they can. But the longer it takes, the worse it is for the people here. Its almost a second disaster after the storm. Because this island is only 50 miles away from the United States. We are so close and you feel like you were in a world away because help is still not arriving to places like high rock. Yeah. Patrick, thank you so much for your continued reporting. Well get back to you. Some amazing, heart breaking, gut wrenching stories coming out from what we can see in your shot. That is in the bahamas. Well follow that. I do want to get back to where Hurricane Dorian is right now and headed. Lets get back to North Carolina. We think weve been able to reconnect with alex field who is in Kill Devil Hills. Alex, what are you seeing . Do we have alex . I think weve lost the shot again. They have been hit. Theyve been getting hit with one of those bands that Allison Chinchar was talking about. Some really tough wind and rain coming through. Were going to try to reconnect to get a shot so she can give us the lay of the land of what it looks like there. A lot of Power Outages were dealing with. Let me now go to gary tuchman who is on a boat in the bahamian waters who i believe has been bringing aid in. Whats going on . Well, the men and women of the u. S. Coast guard are working to help the people of the bahamas affected by Hurricane Dorian. We are steaming through be hammian waters on a 154 foot cutter headed for marsh harbour. Were still a couple of hours out. Before that earlier this morning we stopped at the bahamian port i cant name for security reasons, but the coast guard men and women delivered 1300 pounds of material for temporary housing consisting mainly of tarp. When we get to marsh harbour, a search and rescue mission will begin with the 25 coast guardsmen and women. Two paramedic are on this cutter to help and treat injured people they find. There will be at least seven other coast guard cutters at the abacos and grand bahama island. The coast guard has told us they have saved 164 islanlives on th islands and delivered supplies. The people im with are ready to save more lives. Theyre noble people and ready to get to the people in a couple of hours when they get to marsh harbo harbour. Thats going to be so well received. We were just talking to Patrick Oppmann who says theyre desperate for supplies. Everyone from the Prime Minister on down, every Government Official has expressed how thankful they are for the support that the United States provided on the front end and is sending in right now because of just how hard up the bahamians are. Were you able to see how the coast guard was received when they were able to pull into that one port . Its a little difficult to hear you because the cutter is so loud. But i can tell you this is one of the things they do. They go out [ broken audio ] gary tuchman on a coast guard cutter right now which is bringing in aid to the bahamas. Were going to have much more on those efforts. Thank you, gary, for jumping on the phone. Well also try to reconnect with alex field in Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina feeling the effects of Hurricane Dorian that will not quit. Much more on that coming up. But also coming up for us, it was the president after all after claiming he did not know who doctored the hurricane map he presented in the oval office this week. The Washington Post now reports that it was the president himself. The reporter who broke the story joins us next. Plus an American Airlines mechanic is accused of trying to sabotage a plane that was about to take off with 150 passengers on board. He is in court today. Stay with us. 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President trump he just wont drop it when it comes to his tweet about alabama being in the path of Hurricane Dorian. And the reality that it was not by the time that he made that declaration on sunday. Hes now gone from tweeting about it to pulling out the map about it to directing his Homeland Security director issuing a lengthy statement about it. While speaking to the press sunday september 1st the president addressed Hurricane Dorian and its potential impact on multiple states including alabama. The president s comments were based on that mornings hurricane briefing. And there is more. Colleagues tell me the president called fox news correspondent john roberts into the oval office recently after he called out the president s claims in a live shot. And according to the Washington Post, it was the president who doctored the map with the black sharpie. Josh, what are your sources telling you about the president s involvement in this . Well, the president s been frustrated for five days in a row. Weve seen more than a dozen tweets now. Lots of maps. A doctored map being shown in the oval office. A National Security statement that hes being criticized for saying the storm was going to hit alabama. Thats not what the National Weather forecast said at the time when he made those comments. Instead of moving on talking about it hitting North Carolina and other places, the president continued to defend his argument from a few days ago. In some ways it would not be a big deal but the president keeps saying it and saying it. Even though the people in the white house criticizes us for saying it even though the president keeps bringing it up. Its like a catch 22. Sort of. When he was asked by reporters if the map had been written on or drawn on with a sharpie, he said i dont know. That doesnt coincide with your reporting. Right the president want the map to show it could hit alabama as well and used the sharpie to make the change. Do your sources get a sense on why he just cant drop it . Often the president pushes back and he continues to push back, push back even if its a topic that others around him dont think is advantageous. He spent time hitting anthony skair maw chi even though people said to let it go. He went after Debra Messing recently. The president when he gets something, when hes fixated on something, he doesnt drop it. Whether the argument is in his benefit or not, whether its working for him or not, he continues to just push, push, push. I also heard one smart republican say last night that the president just loves any fight he can get into with the media. Even though i would argue hes the only one trying to make this into an actual fight. Could that be what this is . If you talk to the folks around him to expect a ratcheting up of complaints towards the media as the election gets closer. They regular willing cite polls that show many republicans dont have trust in the news media. And they like to just hit that point over and over and over. Youve seen the president s tweets recently where he said theyre more of a threat than the democrats. Thats what hes going to do for the next 14 months. The media is going to be his main punching bag at least until he gets a democratic opponent until the nominee is chosen. And even then its still lets be honest. Even then we will see. Good to see you. Nice to see you. Coming up for us, the desperate search to find hundreds and maybe thousands of missing people in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in the bahamas. One woman is spearheading an effort to try to help with that. She joins us next. Limu emu and doug. Hmm. Exactly. Liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Nice. 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We are absolutely feeling the peak of dorian here at Kill Devil Hills. Sustained winds really picking up now. That sand is blasting us right off the beach. As you look at the surf, youll see that tide starting to come up. We wont hit high tide here until about 2 00. Expecting some 8 to 10 inches of rain. But even as this thing finally makes its way out to sea, still a lot of concerns here and throughout the outer banks. So what happens on the backside of this storm . Particularly what we can see in terms of storm surge. Also flash flooding. Theyre predicting storm surge could get as high as 4 to 7 feet. So once this storm finally clears out of here, people still having problems to deal with. Hearing reports south of here about flooding and Power Outages. Obviously at this point, i can attest to the fact people are asked to stay home, stay inside. And i agree, they certainly should. I think just looking at you, alex, message received. Thank you so much, alex. I really appreciate it. You poor thing. That ocean looks angry and those look fierce. Thank you so much, alex. Hurricane dorian needs to get out of here as quickly as possible. It has been over a week that folks have been dealing with this. In the aftermath of it, there has been a search for survivors. Hundreds up to thousands of people are still missing. At the same time, grim predictions are coming out from the bahamian government about how high the death toll could be. And residents are still trying to come to grips, quite frankly, with the devastation. L