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Off of buildings and flipped mobile homes, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses along the carolina coast left without power. the death toll in the bahamas has risen to 30, officials say they expect more deaths. we now turn to doug mcelway in north carolina who has been dealing with dorian and the rain and wind all night. what can you tell us? >> reporter: wilmington, north carolina left two fundamental bodies of water on the east coast of the atlantic ocean, the biggest body of water in this storm system, the other is the cape fear river on whose banks we are standing right now. this ...

>> reporter: the situation here in baton rouge does seem to be deteriorating. the wind are kicking up, certainly gusting. we're here on the banks of the mississippi river. we're just outside the bell casino. we've seen whitecaps in the river which is already high from recent flooding. you can see the trees are blowing pretty strongly and also dipping into the water. and some of the water here is coming up on the edge of the steps, much closer to us. but this is a real concern. the main concern in baton rouge isn't so much the wind, even though it is strong. it's the water, because in 2016, jus...

Weeks is all coming down stream so you can see how swift the water is moving back here. the arkansas river well out of its banks, typically it is over on the other side of those buildings but those buildings are now either totally submerged or partially submerged. the green roof you are looking at where you can see those whitecaps, that is a picnic area where on a saturday someone would be sitting with their family enjoying a picnic but it is now underwater just about. the raging arkansas river has built its banks in so many places inundating the local bayous and the levee system and all the t...

On. same with our hotel. because we are at the angle we are at with our hotel, we are missing some of these bigger gusts. it's being blocked. you can feel it whipping straight around constantly. in the last 20 to 30 minutes it's gotten worse. i can see it not just in the way the trees are moving, but also the way the water and street is pushed so heavily. there is whitecaps in the cape fear river. this water is really, really being pushed quicker. we are going to continue to watch that, jon. >> jon: ray in wilmington, north carolina. thanks, ray. let's check in with warren, former deputy assis...

Check back in with you. thank you so much on the scene in morehead city. we'll go to north topsail beach in north carolina. senior correspondent steve harrigan, who whizzed on these storms time and again. steve, what are you experiencing tonight, and would you say you are deteriorating significantly where you are? >> we are seeing some tough conditions. we've been here about an hour or so, and it's actually a little bit scary what i'm seeing behind me. there were 50 or 60 yards of beachwood we started, doing the live shots down on that beach. that beach is now gone, and i'm just seeing these h...