Storm Inching News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Coastal florida. let's talk about georgia's impact, 20this is just for the coastal area. same thing for you. the biggest concern is right along the backwater ways and along the coast, the possibility of that 4 to 7-foot storm surge. up into south carolina, you do notice the potential here the storm surge at least moderate. we'll have to see how bad. it depends on the track further to the north. with the more rainfall we get, the more prone areas of flooding in north carolina and south carolina. that's about three days away. this is the area of concern, chris. the storm surge of 4 to 7 feet all...

Thank you so much for that. let's go to katie beck in savannah, georgia, where the governor issued a mandatory evacuation order. katie, what's the latest in savannah? >> reporter: well, we're just starting to see some landfall here as well, chris, and people are heeding those evacuation orders. you can see behind me this area is deserted. we are in historic downtown savannah right along the river. this is a very popular tourist area. lots of bars. lots of restaurants. right now every hotel is closed. every shop is closed. there are sandbags in front of the doors. so obviously people know to ta...

I can put my finger right there when it started and there is the end of the six-hour loop. i mean, what the people in freeport and on grand bahama island have been through in the last 24 hours is what no one really in -- i can't think of anyone else on the planet that's been through anything like this. a category 5 hurricane stalling right over the top the of you. so there is hopes tonight. they don't have power. they're going to be in the dark, but hopefully the winds will begin to come down a little bit as we take storm, we drift it off the grand bahama island -- over the next 48 hours, it's...

Family as dorian turned deadly. >> our son -- my grandson dead. that's so sad. >> reporter: the grandmother in tears after she said her grandson drowned seeking shelter. today conditions remain so bad the u.s. coast guard couldn't move in until late this afternoon. rescuing dozens but leaving many fearing the worst. >> what's your biggest fear right now as a dad? >> my biggest fear right now is my son's safety. >> reporter: robert monroe's son, part of the bahamian military stationed in abaco. his last message, the weather is picking up. since then silence. >> the storm came and then all commu...

Horrific accident. we've got our other big story today that we're following. the devastating storm currently pummeling the bahamas. nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez is in jensen beach, florida for us. gabe, what's happening where you are? >> reporter: hi there, chris. well, right behind me you can see the choppy surf that we've been seeing here throughout the day. and every few minutes, every hour or so we get one of these rain bands, the outer edges of hurricane dorian that are just starting to hit the southeastern coast of the u.s., but, chris, as we've been reporting, this storm is m...