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Tourists are in the path. the deadly threat is the storm surge. we are speaking to the deputy director of the bahamas. >> it will start to stall, and sit down to 180 miles from the forward speed and we expect it to reduce as it is pushing farther to the west. the problem is that it is going to dump the heavy rains over the islands which has been receiving rain from the tropics for the past week or so, so that the grounds are saturated from the rains. dorian will only add and exacerbate the rainfall situation. >> well, after the bahamas, there is no clear idea where or if it is going to make th...

Getting closer. >> caller: we anticipate it will stall and has already started to. it's now down to 8 miles per hour in terms of its speed, and we expect that to reduce further as it continues to push towards the west. and the problem with that is that it will continue to dump heavy rains over these islands, which have been receiving rainfalls from a trough that has been over the bahamas now for the past week or so. so the ground's already saturated from these rains. and dorian will only add and exacerbate the rainfall situation. >> and then once dorian leaves the bahamas, there's still no cle...

10 and 15 inches of rainfall over the trek of -- through the extreme northwest bahamas. as you rightly said we anticipate it will stall and has already started to. it's now down to eight miles per hour in terms of its forward speed and we expect that to reduce further as it continues to push toward the west. and the problem with that is that it will continue to dump heavy rains over these islands which have been receiving rainfall over the past week or so. so the dwrounds are already satura saturated from these rains and dorian will only add and exacerbate the rainfall situation. >> so explain...

Sunday. the rain, obviously, has been the big story and will continue to be so. this is our radar-estimated rainfall situation, anywhere from 20-30 inches of total rain, and we do have the a report of 30.5 inches in one spot. really all along the coast. that's where we saw these really big numbers. this is a state record for a system to move on through, 30 in. s, just a lot of rain. nowhere for it to go. you get that much rain, and you do begin to see flooding in rivers. that doesn't necessarily happen right away, it takes a couple of days for all of that rain to come and get into those rivers...

Out, mud slides, life-threatening rainfall situation there for central portions of the mountainous range in mexico. the worst is over in colorado. just historic, end ex, once in a thousand-year flood. something we'll never see again. >> thanks so much. a couple of stories leading the news and "the washington post" former nsa and cia director says terrorists love using g-mail speaking at a washington, d.c. church, michael hayden said i don't think you'll see that in a google commercial. it's free and ubiquitous. labeled a cheat but he has a story, 80-year-old weight lifter is the oldest perso...