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Flooding, unprecedented damage, at least five confirmed dead. the damage is so widespread, we don't have a full picture of what things looking in the bahamas. meanwhile, millions of residents under a mandatory evacuation order. bridges in florida are set to close at midnight in anticipation of the storm. fema urging residents in those areas, stay vigilant, prepare for the worst. nbc news meteorologist bill karen is with me now. this is unusual in its behavior. it's moving a mile an hour. we're normally used to seeing a pattern. >> we're waiting for them and now we're waiting for it to move. >>...

You need to do that. get out now while you have time, while there's fuel available. and you'll be safe on the roads. >> i want to go to nbc simone boyce in west palm beach. what's the situation where you are? >> reporter: ali, here in west palm beach tonight you can see behind me the streets are empty. this is exactly what officials want to see for an area that is still under a tropical storm warning, a hurricane watch, as well as a storm surge warning. they do not want to see people out and about on the streets right now. just down that way is palm beach island. that is a barrier island actin...

Moving in an erratic fashion, if it looks like it's going here and then it decides it's not going to go there, instead it's going to move in a different direction or in the case of dorian, just completely stalls out. >> right. >> people are trying to figure out what's going to happen, and after a while when you're trying to convince people along the coast you need to evacuate, you need to do this, you need to do that, they just start to get fatigue. >> yeah. they're fatigued by it. there are some people for whom it's a hardship to go find someplace to live for a few days or deal with whatever ...

The hurricane is usually done. that takes sometimes an hour, sometimes two hours for the storms to pass through. that's not happening this time. >> people are going to be interested. if you're a guy who does this, you specialize in figuring out where this is going. where do you think it's going? >> right now it's going anywhere. i'm hanging out in orlando waiting for it to start moving. so there are the steering mechanisms aloft to the north of the storm that should start having an influence on this hurricane and start lifting it up along the coast. that's my plan tomorrow, to move back toward...

The bahamas. we look to, you know, if we were able to pass this storm, we look to shift our resources to try to assist in the bahamas. for the residents in palm beach county, we issued evacuation orders, and most of the residents have adhered to some of those concerns. >> mayor, what is it that you are worried about right now in west palm beach? what's you're best-case scenario and what's your worst? >> my best case, what i'm really worried about right now is the storm surge, which is really, you know, as was mentioned, you know, the atlantic ocean and potentially seeing four to seven feet of ...