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Expecting. usually we get, say, 60 mile per i did have a chance to speak to hour gusts. that s when you start to get some scatter power outages. the prime minister of the bahamas earlier today, and he you get up there towards 80 to says that dorian is like fighting a war with an opponent where they have all the weapons 100, you get over 100, that s and you have none of them. significant damage. saying that conditions are still freeport, 127 mile per hour so bad he hasn t been able to winds, that s what our computers are estimating right now is fly over abaco island to view occurring. the extent of the damage. hold on a second. he reassured me that the if it s 127 mile per hour winds bahamians are a resilient right now in freeport estimated by our computers, people, that treat each other as family, and that will despite yep. what has the last 24 hours all the destruction we ve seen so far, will come out of this on been like? it was higher than that. top. we expect to learn muc ....
Amazing. the amount of time it spent over top of us, the amount of water it s pushed up, the storm surge. for the moment, from what we understand this is one of the most historic storms in the modern scientific era. over the last 24 hours, have you felt safe where you are? i know you re in a safe structure. when you think about those northern islands and where people live, how they live, are you concerned about what it will be like when the storm dies down and you make your way around the island? oh, absolutely. we re very fortunate where we are, but it s going to be a disaster area everywhere. hurricane florence came ashore as a category 2 breaking up into a category 1. it took us five or six days to get relief there. we re an island here facing one of the biggest storms this region s seen ever. it s going to be quite a slog in the next coming days, weeks, and probably months to get everything rebuilt and put back together. especially when you think about how the bahamas, i hear ....
The chief operating officer of art rubicon. thank you for what you do. specifically today for this weekend, how are you prepared and prepared the areas where you re stationed for the storm? team rubicon has been actively engaged the past few days. we ve watched the storm develop from the tropical storm as it has moved north. we ve set up our emergency operation center in grand prairie, texas, which has served as a quarterback. we have teams, as you said, spread across florida, georgia, north carolina and south carolina and each of these teams has capabilities that they can bring to bear as the storm begins to play out. what s the most pressing need? right now i think the biggest pressing need is manifesting itself as we just heard from sam in the bahamas where the storm has hit and is basically stationary. so a lot of devastation there. we re watching the track as it moves forward. for us the biggest need for us is making sure we prepare our people, preposition the equipment, mak ....
They don t want it to move west, up here in the northeast. you ever talk to anyone that because west would be towards went through hurricane sandy? they wish they evacuated. florida. it s an inconvenience, but it s north for floridians, that s part of what they sign up for okay. you don t want it going north. living in the coastal communities. the cost of being cautious. it s going to go northwest as we go through the forecast the next worth it. bill, thank you so much. let s take you there. about 12 to 24 hours. nbc news correspondent morgan then it s north, northwest. chesky has been covering the notice how far we re off the coast here, 75 to 100 miles. devastation in the bahamas. he s live in nassau. that keeps the core of the storm off the coast. morgan? reporter: steph, we re here storm surge is the concern. in nassau, bahamas. i m not that worried about wind despite the relatively calm, damage or rainfall. keep in mind to the west of us it s storm surge issue. as long as it c ....
Strongest most destructive winds are. you don t want to be outside of forecast, old timers, i ve been this thing. through category 1s and category which is where freeport 2s. they need to leave? was freeport, all of grand bahamas. watch the last couple frames. right there. the emergency managers it inched north ward. responsible for people in their for the first time in 24 hours counties, as a rule of them from we finally are watching this go most i ve talked to, they assume north. come over here, i want to show one category worse. this isn t a perfect science. you the radar view. that s the satellite view, this hurricane center is kag category is the radar view coming in 2. out of the blue crazy it s a here. you can see the black lines. the hurricane center gives us category 3? no, they re still in the cone of hourly coordinates where the uncertainty. storm is. it hasn t been moving much. they couldn t all of a sudden at the last second it s now a cat 3 now this due northward ....