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Prevent my electrical fires from the high winds that the hurricane is bringing. dire situation in the northern most islands of the bahamas that look to be hit by dorian for next 24 hours or so as this slow moving storm continues to churn through this area. we'll send it back to you. >> all right. you guys are still getting some hurricane force winds right there in nassau. thanks to morgan. back here on the u.s. main land. let's head to the jacksonville beach, florida, where julia bagg, a reporter from our own nbc station, nbc 6, is monitoring the storm there. you might have listened just now...

Where katy beck is joining us. the way the map goes for the united states, it is on the curve an the hope is that when storm continues to curve along with the geography. >> reporter: yeah. that's right. i think officials are cautiously optimistic they won't be seeing nearly the devastation that south florida and the bahamas are seeing right now. officials are keeping a close eye on what's happening, looking at the magnitude and power of the storm and trying to think about the tough decisions ahead, whether to evacuate or not. right now they're checking in with folks on the hurricane registry, ...

Saw trees knocked over. light damage here at certain points but i can speak for everyone on the island saying when they see the damage north of us they feel very lucky because they know how powerful the storms can be. >> it's early on in the situation. eye just made second landfall in abacos and imagine with communications and pictures out of there how it will look and we realize you're so far away and looking rough. our thanks to morgan chesky there in nassau. to the main u.s. mainland and jacksonville beach, florida, where julia bagg our nbc 6 reporter from miami is joining us. julia, that a...

Simply walking around when there's a break in this which is the eye trying to take everything in that happened before going back inside and huddling in for the next part of the storm making the way through. all eyes are on grand bahama with a population of 50,000 to 60,000 people. because dorian is slow moving, it could dump feet of in that area, low lying and puts a lot of people at risk. officials urging anyone to seek higher ground saying you don't want to mess with this storm and from what we have seen that's definitely the case. >> morgan, what sort of warnings are you hearing on the tele...

Thanks to kelly o'donnell and catie beck and julia bagg. the update we got from the national hurricane center as we look at the storm in the meantime. they're saying that the eye of dorian has made a second landfall on the great abaco island near marsh harbor. sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. as we go to break there, take a note of something that -- notice there in the last couple of rings of the satellite. while it kept going west to the left. the last couple of times look. it's starting to make that turn to the north. you can see it there as forecast at least as far as we can tell right...