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Patrick ottman, cnn, grand bahama island. >> such an incredible amount of devastation, it is hard to comprehend. if you would like to help the victims of the storm, head to our special impact your world website. there, you'll find a list of aid organizations working to help those devastated. the address cnn.com/impact. the center of hurricane dorian is brushing the north carolina coast at this moment. the storm has already produced several tornadoes in the area like this waterspout in emerald isle, north carolina. they are common in thunderstorm bands of hurricanes and call -- give little, if ...

As hurricane dorian batters north and south carolina, there's a frightening edition to the wind and rain, and that's tornados. emerald island north carolina, a tornado flipped mobil homes and boats, you can see the path of destruction in its wake there, tornados are common in the thunderstorm bands of hurricanes and tropical storms. often getting little if any warning. paul lives in emerald isle. he runs a water park that sustained heavy damage. >> good afternoon, thank you for having me on. i was on my way over to the park, i wasn't at the park when the tornado hit, there was

Strength, where it's going and how powerful it is, our meteorologist bill karins is here to start us off the top of the hour. hey, bill. >> good morning once again. what a long friday this is going to be. 24 hours of hurricanes-type gusts all the way through the wilmington area, moore head city area. we're getting the brunt of it right now. here's the center of the storm. we just had a new burst of thunderstorms on the western edge of the storm. you can see those bright thunderstorm bands, that's the heavy pry sip tags we're seeing with the radar beam shooting it. this is where some of the str...

More, with you that seemed to. we're going to get to those comments and the fallout in just a moment. as you heard we have a lot of breaking news right now. hurricane florence's long siege is underway. this storm has begun slamming the coast of north carolina. north carolina's governor is about to hold a briefing. we will take you there when it begins. but first let's -- we have the new 5:00 forecast. we have the new update, so let's go to bill karins, our nbc meteorologist on duty right now. so, bill, what did we learn at 5:00 and where is it headed next? >> not weakening fast enough and we d...

Beginning to slowly come down. you can see where the eye of the storm is here. it's a huge eye, about 50 miles wide. it's not a sign of intensity. it's an organized structure of the storm. it's a major hurricane. it weakened down to a 2. this is the satellite. this is the radar. we lost all the radars when the eye went over the top of puerto rico. when you see the bright red, this is still thunderstorm bands that are in the northern dominican republic, and the bright reds, this is steady rain in western puerto rico. we're not done with that portion of the storm. this is amazing the entire isla...