Died. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Hurricane dorian weakened overnight, but is still posing a major threat to the carolinas. The category 1 storm is lashing carolinas outer banks with torrential rains and high winds. 15 inches of rain could fall there. Hurricane warnings and surges are posted along the coast. Forecasters predict dorian could make landfall sometime this morning. Katherine johnson is in the thick of it in Kill Devil Hills. Thats in North Carolina. Katherine, what are conditions like there right now . Reporter annemarie, here in the outer banks theres a strict curfew for those who decided to stick it out. Theyve been instructed to stay in their homes from 8 00 last night all the way until noon today depending on the weather conditions. The death toll is expected to climb as damage gets asaysed there. But even though the storm is weakening as it moves through the carolinas here, its still an carolina, exploding transformers and downed power lines left thousands in the dark. The rain here is really starting to pick up right now as flash flood warnings start to go into effect here in North Carolina because its just Hurricane Dorian that we have to worry about. Its the storm surge that will follow once the storm moves out of the way, were told by officials forecasting, 4 to 7 feet of floodwaters rising by high tide, which should hit around 4 00 p. M. Annemarie . All right. Katherine johnson in Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina. Thank you so much, katherine. Its expected to head up the east coast. Cbs news weather producer David Parkinson is tracking dorians path. Good morning, annemarie. The update on this story is dorian is finally starting to move out of here. You can see the center of the storm so close to cape lookout and really pushing those heavy bands on, but in order to get a land fall, you need the center of the eye to pass over land and wed may be just shy of that. You see the doppler there. It shows you that the eye wall is on land there. That means theres winds of up to 90 miles an hour there. Northeast quadrant means you could be seeing todays. We have a watch in the yellow shaded area. Thats until 7 00 a. M. For the potential, we saw how devastating it was. Flash flood warnings everywhere in red. Flash flood watches everywhere in green. Theres a lot of rain. Thats why. You see a foot of rain over wilmington, nearly a foot over charleston and myrtle beach as well. Theres additional rain until today. Thats why we have the flash flood watches and washings. Its 590mileanhour storm. Its a huge improvement and just outside of cape lookout. Thats the last time on this cone youre going to be seeing this cone. Friday at 8 00 a. M. s just southwest of hatteras, and look at that. Its gone off the cone, and dorian goes in the history books as a devastating storm but its assaulting the u. S. No longer. David parkinson, cbs news. Ahead makes landfall. More than a dozen wildfires are burning across North Carolina this morning. The Red Bank Fire and the tenaha fire, in murrieta, 60 miles southeast of los angeles. Winds are expected to pick up today and fuel those flames. Some 800 firefighters are battling the flames and there are also waterdropping helicopters. So far its burned 2,000 acres and is only 10 contained. Robert mugabe, the former leader who was forced to resign has died. He led zimbabwe to independence. He blames problems on International Sanctions and once said he wanted to rule for life. No information on his death, but mugabe was 95 years old. Federal investigators have revealed the cause a possible ce fire that destroyed a boat killing 34 people. Kris van cleave reports. Reporter investigators tell cbs news they increasingly believe the fire started on the ships second level known as the galley, trapping 34 people below deck, their only two exits blocked by fire including a small escape hatch above a bunk bed. Did it surprise you how small that second exit was . It didnt it surprised me how small it was, how hard it was to access. Reporter they described harrowing moments after the fire started. They tried to enter through the double doors and couldnt get in because of the flames. They tried to access the galley from the front through the windows, but the windows wouldnt open. And at some point because of heat and smoke and fire, they had jumps from the boat. Reporter among the possible causes the ntsb is considering, did lithium batteries used for underwater cameras overheat. They have to raise the boat, and the efforts to recover it are being hampered by increasingly strong winds over the next few days. And the ntsb is trying to determine of the night crewmen who the watchman was and what they may have seen. New information is emerging into the missing connecticut mom jennifer dulos. Yesterday the girlfriend turned herself in. Draw conas and jennifers husband fotis dulos were arrested over the summer. Jennifer dulos disappeared in may. An American Woman has been arrested in the philippines for allegedly attempting to take a baby out of the country. Jennifer talbot is from ohio. Investigators say that she got through an airport immigration counter on wednesday before being intercepted at a boarding gate by airline personnel. No, they did not see the baby because she was burying the baby in a sling bag. The baby is only 6 days old. Authorities say talbot gave an affidavit consenting to travel with the baby. Coming up, an Airline Pilot charged with navigation of a system. Why he did it. And trial fire. This is the cbs morning news. Shock e. If deadly ghost ship fire. 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And evacuation orders remain in place as firefighters battle a wildfire in southern california. The fire in murrieta has grown to more than two square miles. Right now its only about 10 contained. There have been no reports of structure losses though. And theres a major break in the nationwide vaping crisis. Public Health Officials say some of the marijuana products that recently sickened users contain the same chemical, the type of oil made from vitamin e. At least two deaths are linked to vaping. Dean reynolds spoke to a young man who nearly died from it. How are you feeling now . Im Getting Better now that im off oxygen, but when i first got here, it was like a baby bear was on my chest. Reporter when he got to advocate con Dell Medical Center in libertiville saturday, 18yearold adam was feverish, vomiting, and gasping for breath. From what doctors know of his case, vaping nearly killed him. His pulmonologist. Anything in your mind . We look for other potential causes, but we havent been able to find anything else. Reporter adams mother polly drove him to the hospital. Did you ever think that your son might die . Yes. The doctors said he would have died that night. Really . His lungs would have collapsed and he would have died. Reporter adam told us he had been vaping for two years, addicted to the buzz it gave him from nicotine, then the high from marijuana or thc, its primary ingredient. How do you get that . You know, the thc . I got it from like a drug dealer or whatever. Did he assure you it was okay . Sure, sure, yeah. But you dont know. Right. Whether it was okay or not. Right. Reporter the cdc has identified more than 200 cases like adams nationwide, and the number is growing. Dean reynolds, cbs news, libertyville, illinois. Well, coming up on cbs this morning, well take you to the bahamas and speak with survivors of Hurricane Dorian as they struggle to recover from the devastating form. Plus twin sisters antoinette and trisha clarkestone discuss their new book double down as they rewrite the rules of success in the corporate world. And what happens to planes when they are retired . Kris van cleave takes us to an airplane boneyard in the desert. Thats the cbs morning news for this friday. Thanks for watching. Im annemarie green. Have a great day. Cbs morning news cbs morning news for this frid captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com