North and South Carolina. Likely to continue off and on as these outer bands continue to push onshore. So please keep that in mind. The National Weather service also this is the map of where we expect the best chance for tornados and water spouts. Now an enhanced threat here. So you can see that threat has actually increased in just the last hour. This does include cities as wilmington as well as myrtle beach. Rainfall is going to be one of the big concerns as well as storm surge. And probably the biggest concern for a lot of the low lying coastal communities here. You see these colors here the reds and even the pinks, this is where were talking 10, 12 if not even as much as 15 inches of rain before this system is finally able to exit the area. Yeah, i dont know need to see the red to know were getting a lot of rain here in charleston. You can see the winds picking up as well. I want to give one update which is now understand more than 200,000 people are without power in georgia and South Carolina and i do expect that number to go up over the coming hours. As we said as bad as it is here, nothing, nothing compared to what happened in the bahamas. And the recovery effort there with so much need still on the ground lets go to Patrick Oppmann whos in freeport, been there for days now. And patrick, i know youve been able to see more of the island now in situations in some cases even more dire than you expected. Reporter every time we get out, john, every time we are able to go into a new part of this island, places that were blocked off just a few days ago, the picture is worse. Yesterday we went to where peoples homes were flooded, hundreds of them. And to see people coming back to see how destroyed their homes were, they were all submerged under water for days or to go to the homes of the missing and realize the relatives, their friends, their neighbors were not there was absolutely heart wrenching. We got to the airport as you know. It was destroyed. One terminal was completely torn apart, other terminals we were not allowed to go in and film, had been under water for days and completely unusable. One update residents told me thrpg the airport runway is clear but still no idea when the airport will reopen. As you know that is so vital to getting in aid. There are people with broken bones, people who have been hurt during the storm. By and large those people have not been medevaced out. We need to start seeing aid pour in. And behind me its a beautiful view of an ocean. For me its incredibly frustrating to see an ocean with no boats on it. It is now possible for the first time to bring in boats full of aid, water, full of food. All the things were running out of here, and weve not seen that happen yet. We tried to hire a private boat to bring things in for us and we were told private boats were not allowed onto the island for a safety reasons. Its unclear on day two why more boats arent coming to the island with things people so desperately need here. I can give you two quick updates on that. Theyre going to send in a cutter to the harbor there to make sure its clear. They just dont know they say that the harbor is clear enough to land vessels and they point out air force engineers were on the ground at the freeport airport at grand bahama island to try to make sure that runway was clear. What about food and water, patrick . I know you say you guys are close to running out. What about the other people in freeport . You know how well we prepare for these storms, john, but tomorrow will be a week. Ive got a great team here. We are sourcing stuff as best we can. We had a lovely breakfast this morning of Peanut Butter and crackers, were going to be okay. But for the average bahamian its a dire situation. We saw a line yesterday at kentucky fried chicken, the only restaurant open when we were doing a tour. But theres no food coming to the island so whatever food there is is going to quickly run out. Patrick oppmann, hang in there. You and your team have been doing fantastic work and hopefully that aid does get to you. I want to go now to ken graham, the director of the National Hurricane center to get the latest on the forecast for Hurricane Dorian. Ken, thanks for being with us. Still a category 3 storm but our Allison Chinchar told us it has begun to make that turn to the northeast. What more can you tell us . Just starting to turn and see that movement. That means right along the coast still seeing the potential for those Hurricane Force winds. Look at these areas for tornados all the way up to North Carolina, all those rain bands producing tornados. But along the way were going to keep moving but look how close we are to the coastline. Anywhere in that hurricane warning area you can still see Hurricane Force winds. I know a lot of these areas, dealing with charleston, when you start getting up to wilmington and those parts of North Carolina, those are areas that dealt with so much flooding just one year ago for hurricane florence. Whats your concern for storm surge there . Storm surge always the leading system for fatalities. Along the areas that got hit before 4 to 7 foot, and thats water up your pant leg. That is above ground and significant. Its not just your Barrier Islands here, it can stretch well inland, too. And in some places, that water gets in early. But on the sound side when the winds turn to the north and northwest some of that water comes in late, fast and could be there even 5 to 10 hours later. And theres the threat too of all the rainfall here in charleston. We could get 10 inches. That doesnt help either. What happened overnight when the storm went from category 2 to category 3, actually picking up speed. Explain how that happened. Right when youre on the border of those categories 1 or 2 miles an hour can make the different of the categories but the impact is still the same. Youre still going to have the rain, the storm surge and the winds right along the coast. So either way, big impact. This is life threatening situation when it comes to the water. So many people in automobiles and we have to remember turn around, dont drown. Yeah, please, that is an important reminder. Ken, joking here a little bit but i can hardly remember a time we werent talking about Hurricane Dorian. Its been around for so long. When will it finally be no more a concern to people on the east coast. John, weve been all hands on deck here for ten days and continue to watch this. You think about puerto rico through the bahamas and now the northeast. So look what the timing is here. We have this morning 2 00 a. M. Friday off the carolina coast and by friday afternoon we start to see it pull away from the outer banks. So we still have today, tomorrow and eventually getting this system back out to the atlantic. Thatll be good riddance to say the least. Ken graham, thank you for everything youve done for us. I really appreciate it. Joining me now is josh who rode out the storm on abacos island, rode out dorian where it hit as a category 5, made it to nassau and has since gone back to visit abacos to get a sense on the situation on the ground there. Now that youve gone and assessed the damage again, what did you see . It was really eye opening. After i rode out the storm i was just in survival mode for a few days, just kind of sleeping in my car, living on bread and Peanut Butter. And i got off the island and came back to assess it further and the twoairs i looked at one was the commercial strip of marsh harbor which is the main town of abacos, and it is just wiped out. The combination the storm surge just flattened it and the other really heavily affected area the whole island is affected but this other devastated area is lowlying area a tremendous storm surge came in and just wiped the place clean. Youre seeing the footage that i sent. Josh, any aid . Whats your sense of what is reaching the people in need there . I think its slow in coming, but i think its starting to. I felt the first couple of days there was a feeling like the government complex, the big sturdy building that with stood the storm well and people sleeping in Office Cubicles and that kind of thing, and i didnt sense there was anyone in charge. But i started to feel yesterday when i went back that maybe a little order was coming in. But i do think people are desperate. People are hungry and thirsty. Theres a Medical Clinic on the island. They dont have a whole hospital, theyve got a big Medical Clinic. And theyre unable to treat the most traumatic injuries and the staff are heroic working around the clock, not sleeping to deal with broken bones and get the most urgent cases evacuated out via helicopter, but its a tough scene right now and they need. They really need help. Thats why its important when you get the pictures out, when you see a whole section of the city flattened like my footage shows then people on the outside understand how serious this is and how much people need help there. I couldnt agree more. The one combination of words an official used was generational devastation which i think may be the only way to describe whats going on there. You talk about had helicopters reaching the island. Patrick oppmann was saying how frustrated tay were in freeport not seeing any boats yet to arrive. Right now is it just helicopters reaching the abacos . You see a lot of helicopters buzzing around, an occasion small plane. I dont know that the airports are open yet. I definitely see a desperation for help from the outside. Im having a little bit of a hard time hearing you. I think its me in this case which is new because i have so much water all around me now. Josh, you talk about the food, you talk about the water. Where are People Living on these islands right now . Well, the bahamas government complex is this huge building in the center of marsh harbor and during the eye of the hurricane it was so violent and then most people, myself included to the only building that was pretty solid which was the government building. So everyone went into that building during the eye and that has become a home for many people, so days later that government complex and Office Building is just a home for hundreds of refugees. So people are cooped up inside these hot uncomfortable conditions. Yesterday the sun was out. People were sort of camped out on the hill, hanging their clothes on tree branches to dry stuff and wash up a little. It is tough conditions but my sense is the government complex has become like a hub. Thank you for joining us again this morning. Thank you for providing us this video, this window into whats going on in the abacos. Hopefully it helps get the aid there as quickly as possible. As we let you go i want to tell people they can stream the latest episode of your show, hurricane man for free online to get a real sense of the dire situation there on the ground. We really appreciate it, josh. My pleasure. As i go back to you, alisyn, again the winds here have been fairly consistent over 50 miles an hour all morning long and it has been raining so hard. You can see the rain coming off the ground where its bouncing. So you have the rain falling, the storm surge coming in. The next four hours here will be crucial. 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I think it makes a lot of people feel very helpless because, yes, we can all do away with our Plastic Straws and i havent drank out of a straw for the past six months because im so worried about whats happening in the ocean but people feel helpless when its that existential. Thats one of the things, the down side to fosing just how colossal of a challenge of this is, is it can feel paralyzing but we can rise to meet this. Thats what my climate plan is all about. Its not just about all the things we can do tech logically and so on but summoning the energies of this country to do something unbelievably hard. When you look at this country rose to a great challenge, overcoming the great depression, going to the moon, i think where he could be standing taller. Right now were in a mode i think were thinking about it mostly through the perspective of guilt. Using a straw, eating a burger am i part of the problem . Yes, but we could all be part of the solution. 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As the leading nation in climate diplomacy. As a matter of fact, it may be just what we need to restore u. S. Credibility by leading on this major world issue at a moment when our credibility is very much in tatters around the world. Speaking of credibility i just want to show you a moment that happened yesterday at the oval office. President trump was trying to prove that alabama was in harms way, that Hurricane Dorian was heading to alabama, so he held this event in the oval office which shows the official National Weather service projection, and i dont know if right there perhaps you can see with the untrained eye that someone has drawn in black magic marker alabama because since the projection didnt really include alabama, the president wanted to make his point and so someone just drew it on there. So what is your reaction to that . Im really worried about i feel sorry for the president. And that is not the way we should feel about the most powerful figure in this country. I dont know if he felt it necessary to pull out a sharpy and change his map, i dont know if one of his aides believed they had to do that in order to protect his ego. No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country. If our presidency isnt in good shape then our countrysent isn good shape. And by the way i also think its why youre seeing a lot of independents and people who have voted republican over the years saying you know what, this has become something weve all got to pull together and create an alternative to because we just as a country cannot go on with these. This is humiliating, this is an embarrassing moment for our country and we seem to see a new National Embarrassment every day. So when you say you feel sad, you feel sad for the president or for the country . Both. Look, when the presidency has been reduced to this, all of us are diminished because the presidency is something to be looked up to. What were seeing there is literally pathetic. It makes you feel a kind of pity for everybody involved, and thats no