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Hurricane center, dorian won't budge. >> new update shows little change. movement is expected later this morning. meteorologist chad myers live in the cnn weather center with the latest. chad, good morning. >> good morning, dave. 120 miles per hour seems like nothing compared to the 125 they had. this is a major hurricane just off the east side. 120 the movement is stationary at this time, and it really hasn't moved at this time more than 12 hours. around freeport, grand bahama island. they're trying to address what they have. it is a little distressing what is left along the abacos. where are...

Hurricane dorian is flipping cars, tearing roofs from homes in the bahamas as it marches toward the east coast of the united states. hurricane warnings are in effect up and down the atlantic coast of florida. mandatory evacuation orders issued for several communities or will go into affect in the next few hours. i want to check in. people on the florida coast, georgia, carolinas wondering how much of this hurricane will come ashore. >> i think we would like to know that. it's going to put on its brakes. it's going to spin for a while. until that spin, that stall stops and it starts to make its...

And destroying homes in the bahamas. roofs are torn off. cars flipped over. this is just on the outer islands of the bahamas. the full force of the hurricane has not yet reached the big population centers. nassau and freeport. we are hearing about widespread power outages and that the government has disconnected the public water service as this storm bears down. let's go to our severe weather center. the power of the storm is compounded by how slow it's moving. right? >> i'm at a loss for words when we think about what they are going through. very few people who have ever lived on our planet a...

Without power, we started losing weather observations from around freeport. it's harrowing in the dark the night. power, no doubt, is out. there's one other hurricane with stronger winds, 1980. it didn't make landfall. since 1951, we have had 90 hurricanes. there's been one other at landfall with winds like dorian. that was the labor day hurricane of 1934. what we are seeing is unprecedented. it's hard to see. there's clearing. they were in the eye. when the eye made its first landfall, they were able to get in heavy machinery and evacuate some of the citizens that were there before the back e...

We have seen videos all day long coming out of marsh harbour of people who lost roofs, who have cars flipped over in the street near where they are, people who have shown us videos of communities underwater. that will repeat itself here in freeport as the winds pick up here, as the rain dumps perhaps over a foot of rain and water here. as that storm surge rises perhaps to 20 feet. we're on an island where the high point isjority of the isla be underwater. surrounding islands will be completely submerged. it's a worst case scenario. >> patrick, you have been reporting long hours today. we're ve...