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Under water. >> patrick ottman, appreciate it. thanks so much. an eerie calm in coastal florida as dorian moves forward. evacuation orders in effect for palm beach, martin, saint lucy, indian river, voe lulusia. following the path of hurricane matthew from 2016. martin county sheriffs warning a near miss or devastation, both possibilities. >> we r within 20 miles of an apocalyptic hurricane coming to shore on the coast. if it does what the models are predicting, we will be okay. if on the other hand the storm wobbles 20 miles to 30 miles off

And reported worse damage but it's just a terrifying scene. you don't have power. you don't know when you're going to get it back. this is a hurricane that is moving so slowly and it just gets stronger as it inches closer and closer to us. and it's really stalled out over us. so it is a worst case scenario. you have a category 5 that is not moving hardly at all. basically at a walking pace. over a very low line of the bahamas. many houses here are at water level. others are just above it and we're talking about a storm surge of over 20 feet, and that is just going to wipe out full communities....

Much everything that we can talk about here with a tropical cyclone. the second strongest in the atlantic ever since 1980, that was 190. >> very concerning that it's such a slow-moving storm. thank you very much. catastrophic damage is already being reported in the bahamas. >> everyone pray for us please. please pray for us. >> the first areas hit by the storm are devastated. dorian ripped the roof off this home. and storm surges are still expected to lift water levels as high as 18 to 23 feet above normal producing large and destructive waves. patrick ottman live from freeport, bahamas. let's...

Slowly off the coast there in the bahamas. appreciate you joining us. thank you. catastrophic damage is already being reported in the bahamas. >> everyone pray for us please. please pray for us. >> the first areas hit by the storm are devastated. dorian ripped the roof off of this dw-- >> this is probably the most sad and worst day of my life to address the bohemian people. i just want to say that as a physician i've been trained to withstand many things, but never anything like this. >> storm surges are still expected to lift water levels as high as 23 feet above normal producing large and ...

All right quoting now the price you may pay for not evacuating is your life. that warning from the prime minister of the bahamas. hurricane dorian now a strong category 4. and it's expected to slam into the northwestern part of the islands tomorrow. cnn's patrick ottman is in free port. describe what's happening there. >> we're seeing people making their final preparations, getting the last tank of gas, going to the store to buy whatever there is left. and there is not much here, fred, left on the store shelves. people, as always as happens with the hurricanes have gone out to buy all the wate...