Per hour to get to a category two. It may not happen until it takes a turn around South Carolina or North Carolina. It is 75 miles off of the florida coast. The outer bands are causing all sorts of tigers are is very windy conditions. Again, does not look like it will go anywhere as far as making any impact with florida, but some bands are producing very heavy rain and also the surf that we are talking about, the storm surge is coming up. Cocoa beach is will escape canaveral certainly are right in there and some of these can produce storm activity. It looks like to eventually the steering currents should pick up in the next 2436 hours which would take it a little to the north. Right now, it is been stationary. It does look like it is beginning to make a little bit of a push to the north, northwest. It is a category three, going along the florida coast. Georgia, the South Carolina North Carolina. The closest, looks to be, would be South Carolina and North Carolina. It should weekend, bu
Elsewhere in the storms path. Authorities are also just beginning to assess the damage. Dorian isnt expected to affect the u. S. Until late tomorrow or early wednesday. Mandatory evacuation orders go into effect in florida, South Carolina later today. , ifema sent search and rescue late last week. That gave them time to prepare. There is stash to support any medical evacuations that are needed. We have been at this for five or six days preparing. We have been activated in the National Response Coordination Center which you can see behind me. We have food, water, generators, staff, helicopters, ambulances from florida all the way to north carolina. Reporter the federal government also deployed special teams to help the 169,000 people in florida who rely on medical equipment powered by electricity. It is 4 32. Lets check in with steve. The fact that it is moving very slowly gives more people time to evacuate or plan. It is not moving at all. It is not moving at all now. One mile per hour
Freeport. Strong powerful winds are all blowing all across the islands destroying homes and businesses. The storm conditions are a serious threat to the safety of everyone in the bahamas and elsewhere in the storms path. Other parts of the bahamas have seen the impacts. The hurricane made landfall as a category five storm on great avaco island yet yesterday. The winds ripped roofs off homes and brought down powerlines. Thousands of people evacuated their homes to seek shelter in schools and churches. The Prime Minister of the bahamas says at least one down of more than 6000 people appears to be under water. Authorities are just beginning to assess the damage. Three airforce are flying moderate recovery planes aiming for the eye so they can get the most Accurate Information on where dorian might be headed. They used radar and other equipment. The hurricane speed and direction as well as whether it is expanding or contracting. Teams are gathering information on the ground in the state of
Does take it over cape canaveral. Then up along the jo georgia coast. The wilmington, outer banks and out to sea. The track is going to take a long time to get it generated to get it going because there is just no steering current. Eventually it will get together. It looks like it wants to hug the coast, and it is currently for six hours not moved. That is going to be major damage. Some of the outer bands are going to clip parts of florida. Some of the higher waves will make it there. Some of the wind gusts will start to pick up over the next 24 to 36 hours. For a system to just not cooling is almost on Craig Craigslist to be honest with you. The water temperatures are still warm enough that it can generate some energy. Patchy fog on the coast. Nice to warm to hot. Waive and give up more day. Today anywhere from upper 06s to upper 90s you guys. All right, thank you, steve. Hurricane dorian is barely move ago cross the bahamas with sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. So causing a lot
Rescue attempts. So well keep a close eye on the story an update you as we get more information in our newsroom. Were the only tv reporter there at the bay station. Crews have been cleaning up the power lines. Reporter good morning. We found the power lines that fell this morning, causing the major traffic backup. You see the power lines on the ground. They were stuck in the tree. There was a bunch of workers below the transformer that were involved in the incident. Around 5 30 a. M. A crane that was involved in this Bart Lafayette track rebuilding work took down the power lines. They ended up falling along westbound lanes of highway 24. All lanes closed for nearly an hour. The lanes finally reopened and the traffic is moving again. But there is a lot of work to be done. 115 people in the area are without power this morning because of this. They are on the scene trying to clean up the mess and also work on restoring the line. Bart is also investigating how this happened. A crane took d