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We have andrew yang here. He made the cut for the next debate stage. Is he cut out to take on the ultimate fight against donald trump . His big pitch is a stipend for all. Lets put it to the test tonight. Hes been going at it with bernie sanders. And whom does it serve to punish Service Members overseas . Well have a great debate. What do you say . Lets get after it. Good news. Dorian right now, a category 1 storm. Bad news, the longer it is over that warm warmer, the stronger it becomes. By sunday it could be a cat 4 hurricane and that will be around the bahamas. Then what . Then it hits the east coast of florida where, how strong, what happens when it hits. Throws the open questions the Hurricane Center is saying if youre thinking about making preparations, do it now. Think about how youll get out. There is a State ....
Tracking dorian for us at this hour, nbc s david guerra joins us from naggs head and morgan chesky is joining us from the bahamas. morgan, we ll go to you first. the rescue efforts, daunting to say the least. reporter: yeah, alex, good afternoon. sorry. we are having some interference issues because of the active rescue efforts that are ongoing behind me. we have military helicopters that have been flying out as of first light going to abaco island which took the brunt of dorian s power when that hurricane 5 moved through here. the thing that we re starting to see today that we haven t seen in prior days is the relief effort starting to ramp up. we have tents 100 yards behind us that have basically opened up for everyone flying in from abaco island to give them food, water and a little bit of ....
There are generations before them, grandparents, great grandparents and parents themselves. they still put and are hard convinced to leave. they are hurricane and weather savi. so i m sure they are prepared. we all need help every once in a while. this is for sure. mayor jerry jones in morehead city, south carolina. thanks for being on the show to give us that update. appreciate it. bill keurpbs is tracking dorian from our nbc news weather center in new york. you tweeted an hour ago that dorian made landfall at cape hatteras. now get the heck out out of there. nine days of this. let me talk about what the mayor was talking about. the last second, we get the landfall. then the backside. so here goes the storm, right. you have to remember the winds go counterclockwise. all of a sudden the high winds on the backside rapidly push. ....
That s where we always see the greatest danger. until this pulls out, look at the winds coming in and around dorian. stumpy point, a wind gust of 69. elizabeth city, 43. buford 27, 28 in washington. this wind wrapping all around dorian is going to have to then pull up and out. and we ll still have windy conditions behind it as well. here s the track we see right now. it is just about parallel to new jersey by later this evening. then it makes its way further out. the thing is right now tropical force winds extend out 220 miles from the center of this thing. and as we ve already seen this wrap around moisture coming up, we re seeing rain showers here in new york city from this. and andrea, it just continues on traveling up and away. winds will be a factor as this pushes through. that s one of the impacts we ll be seeing. ....
Help. andrea snu. thank you, stay safe. al roker, what is the storm track right now? you ve been tracking dorian all week. back in the weather center in new york. what are we seeing going up the coast? we re seeing this behaving more like a traditional hurricane. it s been defying conventions over the last several weeks. and basically it was where it made landfall, you can see cape hatteras. a little further to the south, this thing would have hugged the coast and then gone out into the atlantic without making landfall. now it has. you can see it is according to the national hurricane center still a category 1. i want you to look, though, just at how wide the feeder bands are. if you look above this band where it says tracking dorian, you can actually see rainfall now making its way into long island. that s how far this is. we re talking about 400 miles. ....