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Gratitude as hundreds of bahamian residents make their way to the united states on a cruise ship in the aftermath of hurricane dorian. the storm is making its way past eastern canada this morning. overnight, winds caused a crane to collapse in nova scotia, hitting a building. luckily, no one was injured. recovery efforts continue on the islands of the bahamas. that's where we kind kerry sanders. i saw the leaders of the bahamas referred it to this hour of darkness. give us an update if you would. >> reporter: well, the hurricane refugees here in marsh harbour at the port are lined up again for...

Area. i am, quite frankly, still surprised that we have electricity at the hotel we're hunkered down in at the moment. i think that will probably change. good thing we do have generator power available to us. the police are reporting floodi flooding streets, downtown charleston, and that all has to do with the susceptible nature of this city. all the topographical things coming together to put this city at risk for storm surge and flash flooding. >> yeah, and let's talk about the risk of this city because it has added vulnerabilities because of its topography surrounded in water. it sits very ...

Sandbags in places. we have numerous days worth of food on hand in the hospitals already. we'll be getting more supplies tomorrow. and also more supplies after the hurricane. tons of water. and a lot of medicine and medical supplies. and we have had to go as far as thinking about out patient facilities and putting vaccinations on generator power. there's huge steps we have gone through this week and continue to go through. to make sure we're ready. one of the biggest things we have plan foris not only before, during, but after. and we expect a will the of impacts from this major hurricane. exa...

Carbon monoxide poisoning. we don't want that to happen and ask people to take extra vigilance out there doing repairs and assessments after the hurricane. those things do happen. we have to be ready for those emergencies. >> i understand one of the things you're doing is establishing additional free standing emergency rooms. across central florida. tell us about that. >> right, we're setting up numerous departments across florida. to help get our care out to patients and communities we haven't been out to before. our plan with that is go on lock down mode during the hurricane. with our staff ...

Outage could happen like this and affect tens of thousands of people and backup systems would not jump into action immediately. again, this is new york city. this is an't a small town in th middle of nowhere. and i think he took a jab at mayor de blasio for this. he had some harsh words for him, including the fact that mayor de blasio is out campaigning right now and is not in new york city. thing governor cuomo tried to be as diplomatic as he could be, but this will be a real issue for mayor de blasio. why he could not guarantee the provision of essential services in manhattan if he's plannin...