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Hurricane dorian sat over the bahamas for 1 1 2 days pounding the northwestern islands for hours and hours on end. It first made landfall as a monster category five storm with a 23 foot storm surge and wind gusts topping 225 miles an hour. Thats the same strength as a powerful tornado. This is what folks woke up to this morning in freeport. This woman in chesthigh waters with two dogs. More than 60,000 people will food, clean Drinking Water and other aid according to the United Nations. Take a look at this. Shepard a live look at this is the second floor of a ft. Lauderdale beach now. Well south of the area that is home in freeport. You can see the waves splashing supposed to get storm surge. Against the second florida ominous clouds there even with windows. Flood waters coming up the people on the beach today, many likely trying to get waves out stairs. This is grand bahamas of this thing. Hurricane dorian is pounding the international airport. Under water. The tarmac looks like a raging bahamas for two days. River. Officials say damage to the islands is unprecedented. The number of dead is expected this is freeport on grand bahama to rise. Idea. This is far from the worst of the u. S. Coast guard helping it. That will likely be where the rescuestranded people in the bahamas. Storm came ashore on marsh helicopter crews shot this photo of a marina, dozens of boats on harbor and great abaco island. Top of each other. Precious little reporting from we have team fox coverage. Abaco this far. Ellison barber is in jupiter after sitting and churning in beach. First, chief meteorologist rick colder water, dorian is a cat2. Reichmuth in the fox extreme weather center. Hi, shep. Maximum winds 120 miles an hour. All of the video is out of freeport. Freeport never had the worst of we still dont have a full picture of the devastation. The conditions. Other areas in the bahamas, the but were hearing reports of folks on rooftops still waiting storm made landfall initially at that 185 miles an hour sustained to be rescues. Winds down around marsh harbor. Sam is here with us on skype. And then eventually got over he lives in freeport. How are things right now . Towards freeport. We have not seen a lot of the hi, shep. Thanks for having me. Images yet to keep from the things are still really bad. Ideas. Im afraid to be honest with im on the south side of you. Freeport. The center of the storm had the weve been very fortunate where we are. My house. Strongest winds. We have two stories on a canal i want to show you, this is Tropical Storm force winds. Thats what sandy looked like. Has had storm surge. But we got back delivering fuel katrina. We know what those storms did damagewise. Dorian has winds extending out 350 miles. To some teams on the other side so its a little smaller in the expanse of the strongest winds. Of the bridge. That is Strong Enough that were seeing Tropical Storm force its utter devastation. Winds along the coast and likely a lot of friends are still see Hurricane Force gusts missing. People are really desperate need overnight tonight around cape for help right now. Because theres still storms canaveral and tomorrow morning, this is a representation of what surge happening. We believe the radar will look theres still prevailing winds. Like in time, this is tomorrow a lot of stuff we dont know. Morning. Daytona beach, a lot of water in towards the jacksonville area, a ill just say, its lot of water around tybee catastrophic. Island. This is thursday morning. Freeport, for people that are charleston. Unaware, its on the southern under hurricane warning. Were going to see a lot of tip along the west side of grand that. The center of it according to bahama. And up north of there, the this model run, ones along the northern top of grand bahama and coast here across areas of forget about getting over to North Carolina probably right on abaco. Do you have a sense of what in or right offshore, either way. Going to have a category two the world that will look like . Storm, category one storm right bad. Along the North Carolina i mean, the bahamas are already coastline. This comes out from an area flat. Lowlying. Were only like 50, 60 miles within noaa that gives flood from florida. Prediction. Moderate risk is across an ive been here 1 1 2 years. Been to lots of the island. Expensive area that well see really amazing people. The next few days. Our communities have been around well be done with this by a long time. Friday afternoon and saturday. But theyre in lowlying areas. That cannot come soon enough. The storm on the north side, the big story from this, video ive seen, people fleeing remember last week, we talked about the turn. To their attics. Made the turn over the bahamas. People going to runoff tops had that happened across the with sometimes over 200 miles an eastern seaboard of south hour wind gusts but nowhere else florida, i cant imagine the to go. Damage it would have caused the rain was there. The storm stayed. There. Obviously the bahamas took the it didnt move, which is brunt of this storm. Remarkable that it was such a shepard clearly. The last hour a new Tropical Storm in gulf. Powerful storm and just stayed there is. Put on top of us. This is in the gulf. Its Tropical Storm fernand. Really has brought a lot of devastation. Ive seen a bit of it getting it will bring a lot of moisture outside in search and rescue up across south texas. Stuff with my friend, joe and so the brownsville area, get luke and his family staying with ready for some significant us. Flooding from that moisture. Theyre coordinating with shepard, peak of hurricane people. Season is september 10. Others are trying to organize were september 3, i believe. Relief efforts right now. Thats what the bahamas need theres a lot of activity in the what the bahamian people need. Atlantic. Theyre resilient. Were not done with this season. Theyre ready to get their lives shepard thanks, rick. Back together. Were going to lot a not of as Hurricane Dorian crawls help. We dont have a lot of towards florida, folks in palm resources. Shepard and theyll need a beach county are getting lot of help. For some people that help is tropical force wind gusts. Ellison barber reporting live in needed right now. Jupiter beach in the northern is the weather such that people end of the county. Can get to them on your end of hi, ellison. Hi, shep. The island . Ill try to turn around here yeah, right now this area where to see out the window. Were in, there is a storm surge and hurricane warning. This is with it down graded to a sort of right on the edge of where that warning beginning and category two. The Defense Force lives across ends. At 11 00 a. M. This morning, the the canal there. Effectively coast guard. Totally boarded up. National Weather Service limited we have winds whipping up. The storm surge warning for its starting to come down. Areas south of Jupiter Inlet, the airport, from what i heard, which were near. This is the edge of where things are expected to pick up when they got six feet of water on top of it. Dorian makes its way closer to seaplanes, helicopters cant the United States. You can see some of what were come in because the winds are dealing with behind me here, above 40 miles an hour. Waves have come in rain has we went out to the bridge and come in waves. Deliver fuel, we had to drive 2 the waves obviously picking up miles an hour with power lines as the wind moves closer and as the wind gets stronger. I saw one person, they had come down everywhere. The wind still wanted to push us down to the beach. Off the bridge. Its giving us rain, wind. They took a video of the water. They said the video doesnt do the storm has gotten better, but it justice. These waves are angry. Its still very intense, thats a really good way to describe it. Theyre crashing here, getting especially the people that are trapped and isolated and dont bigger. You can see them breaking have cell service like im further and further back as the fortunate to have. Wind picks up. Shepard i feel for them. On the other side of this jetty, sam teicher from freeport on grand bahama. Theres people that dont see this as a concern. Best of luck to you and good theres surfers over here. Luck with rescues and helpouts. You see some of them here. I know people will be ive spoken to them. Theyre all for the most part appreciative. Residents in this area. Thanks, shep. They were supposed to evacuate. Theres a fund called the Close Community fund. A couple people told me they i can forward on information. Chose not to evacuate. If you look that up, really theyve been watching warnings closely. They feel like the storm is light now the best thing people can do is send in diapers to doing to miss them, so they water, fuel, building supplies, wanted to stay here. They say theyre checking the power tools, boats. Updates. Weve been here because the i spoke to another woman that said that she evacuated with her bahamian people need help. Shepard sam, good luck. Thank you. Family when the orders came thanks, shep. Shepard freeport is on an down. They went to South Carolina. Idea. Its worth a google look. The areas they were in in South Carolina, it had an Evacuation Order. They came back, tried to go to here it is. Just east of there, almost miami. They got an Evacuation Order exactly due east of free point there. They figured it was the best place to be. Right now people are thinking, is marsh harbor. And then the next idea, great hoping that the brunt of this abaco. Storm will miss this area based thats where it came ashore. Thats the place we havent seen on the latest past projections, images. Thats the place where people havent been able to get in in shepard. Dana i hear you talked to large number to find out if the National Guard there. People are okay and what people what did they tell you . Need. The florida National Guard the storm is largely away from has over 4,000 people deployed. We saw one of the areas where them. Well learn later today and theyre staging in palm beach county. They said the county called that tomorrow how bad all of great they needed help. So they moved in overnight abaco is. Sunday. They told me that they are getting ready for potentially marsh harbor, crown haven and having to do some search and the rest of them, a lot of work rescue orders. Rescue missions. And rescues in the bahamas in they have a number of highwater the days before us. Well talk with the director of vehicles. One thing that they kept the National Hurricane center for the latest on what will emphasizing is how difficult the missions are and why its so happen next. The latest trajectory of this important to evacuate. Storm and where the hurricane listen here. Center thinks people really do areas that should be evacuating, the advice is get need to still be very weary of out. Its search and rescue at the this thing. A huge charge for the largest hardest part. When you have dogs looking retailer. Walmart announcing major action on ammunition sales following around for people, that is tough. Recent Mass Shootings. Stuff can be replaced. That is next. First, a live look at the dow, so for now, rain has stopped. Which is off about 300 points on the sun is coming out. This seems to last for about 30 the session. Its not the lows. In fact, early this morning minutes or so. Officials say anyone out, after the market opened, we were particularly in these coastal right here. Areas, in this area and further the dow plunges more than 300. North at this point, they see theyre gambling with their analysts theres new concerns about u. S. Manufacturing. American manufacturing is on the lives. Shepard thanks, ellison. Storm survivors in the bahamas decline now because of the say they need help. They frankly dont know when escalating trade war with china. The Fox Business Networks gerri its coming, especially on great willis reporting live. Abaco island. Some islands are flooded. While dorian is getting out of gerri . Manufacturing contracting that according to the institute the area, recovery has barely for supply management. Theyre in a position to know. Begun. Ill speak to one man who has i talked to purchasing managers in the country. Been stuck in the storms and his people in the middle of business friends are getting desperate. Who see the order flow and know thats coming up as reporting how strong business is. 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Last month, a gunman shot and killed 22 people inside a walmart in el paso. Days earlier a shooter killed two people at a walmart in south haven, mississippi. In a letter to employees, walmarts ceo, Doug Mcmillan says the status quo is unacceptable. He said our founder, sam walton was an avid outdoorsman that had a passion for quail hunting. We understand that heritage in america and our influence as the Worlds Largest retailer and we understand the responsibility that comes with it. The ceo said he would send letters to the white house and Congress Calling for gun Safety Measures such as stronger background checks. Researchers in california are ending the search for survive investors around that sunken diving boat with six people still missing. The sheriff in Santa Barbara says officials do not think any of the 34 people stuck on the boat survived after it went up in flames. Of course, it happened near santa cr santa cr Santa Cruz Island yesterday morning. The sheriff said 35 people were on board. The five crew on the top deck jumped overboard. Most people, those that were customers, were sleeping below deck in crowded spaces and did not escape. Hurricane dorian gaining forward speed as forecasters say it will move what they call dangerously close to floridas east coast. More now on the storm track. Lets get to ken graham from the National Hurricane center in south florida what are you seeing now . Its starting to get close to the coast. At least we have movement. Were finally moving. 5 miles an hour. Thats better than being stationary. With time along the coast, it will be florida, talk about georgia and the carolinas and close to virginia the rest of the week. Shepard so from everybody in the Jupiter Inlet or the whole coast . The whole close. The winds have spread out. Were talking Tropical Storm force winds of 175 miles from the center. As we get close to the coast and several different spots, you can get Hurricane Force winds. Thats where we have the hurricane warnings. Shepard on the future, ken, when this reaches the gulfstream, is the thinking that the intensity will remain fairly stable or there might be a change . I think its going to remain stable. As we go forward, you start to increase the speed. That acts to keep it about the same. Independent of a category, the size itself causes the storm surge and the size itself can cause the winds to expand. So the impact is independent of the intensity in the center. Shepard ken graham at the National Hurricane center. Thanks so much. Jacqui heinrich now reporting live in port st. Lucie. Jacqui . Shep, the storm is about 110 miles east of here. You can see the outer bands as they push through. Theyre really kicking up the surf behind me. Were on a cause way, connecting the mainland to a barrier island, hutchison island. Theres white caps that are just rolling in this way. Its actually brought quite a bit of debris up here on to the bridge. You can see theres branches up here on the in the parking lot. The sea spray is just lapping over the roadway here. Up until about two hours ago, this was shut down except to police and emergency vehicles because of the risk of high flooding. This area is at risk for flooding not just because of the storm surge but because this area is affected by king tide. Its at higher than normal high tide that is a name phenomenon that happens this time of year. Even without this storm being here, this was scheduled to be the highest tide of the year anyway. Combine the king tide with the storm surge, the outer bands of the storm and you have the potential for some damage. Luckily this area really has not been hit too hard by the rainfall. It was spared from the heavy rains that you saw ravaging the bahamas. So the concern for inland flooding that they had on the mainland, that really didnt produce many results. The concern is this storm surge would push the indian river inland and the heavily saturated neighborhood would flood from that rain. This area was spared any damage from that. As of right now, theyre monitoring, making sure that the surf you have boats out there. They must trust those morings. We have seen beach stairs ripped off and debris kicked up by the surf. Shepard thanks, jacqui in port st. Lucie, florida. Its half passed the hour. Coming up, our coverage of Hurricane Dorian continues. Live reports from the storms next target. The northern florida coast and georgia near the South Carolina border. In addition, the acting Homeland Security secretary will join us live. Thats coming up on fox news. Id by whats next. And still going for my best, even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin. I want that too. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. 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So she can save the science project. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace shepard in florida, theyre bracing for what dorian may bring as it crawls to the state in the north. The National Hurricane Center Center warning people that the storm could bring life threatening storm surge in some areas. Plus flash flooding and the possibility of tornadoes. We have live reports from cocoa beach and up at tybee island in georgia. First, jeff paul live in cocoa beach. Jeff . Yeah, shep. This hurricane is as close as its ever been to cocoa beach. Weve seen the outer bands. Very windy. You can tell. Over here, you can see what its doing to the surf off the coast near the pier. The waves are big. Strong as what weve seen in recent days. As you take a will look over here, this beach is desserted. The Police Showed up, kicked everybody out of here. This storm is now going to start moving through the area. They dont know what it will do in terms of storm surge. That is the big concern. The storm surge could be anywhere from 3 to 5 feet in some spots along the central coast. It could be up to seven feet. Just a quick drive around town, you can see that is going on in the inland as well, a lot of people have their homes boarded up, their businesses boarded up. Theyve had tmoaed up for days and days. Some of the folks we spoke to say they want to get this thing over with, whatever the storm will bring, bring it now, shep. Shepard live for us. Cocoa beach in Brevard County south of the space coast. Lets head up north now to the florida coastline. Rick leventhal reporting live from atlantic beach. Rick . Were near low tide right now. The storm surge could bring waters over the berm here. They built fresh berms and all the cuts that went through the sand dunes trying to keep the water on the ocean side. You can see the double red flags flying, this beach closed, a lot of airport closures. Ft. Lauderdale international is now open. Orlando international is closed and so is palm beach international. Daytona beach is closed. When they reopen is not clear. Dozens of schools, dozens of counties are closed as well. Theres a curfew in effect. A lot of businesses are boarded up. The coast guard went to port condition sulu because theyre expecting high winds. Theyre telling people to stay off the water. Shepard Rick Leventhal in atlantic beach. On top of that, even the disney park is closed for 37 minutes ago. Lets go up the coast. Off tybee island in georgia. Mike tobin is there live. Mike . Certainly got a lot of wind and a lot of surf that has been whipped up. Despite an Evacuation Order for everything east of i95, you can see people wandering the beach. You can see a couple surfers out there and a pack of kite surfers with the down grade of the hurricane and prediction that youll see winds around 30 miles an hour possible gusts up to 60, we have seen some boarding up in savann savannah, tybee. Weve seen sandbagging. Not extensive. People said theyre going to ride it out or wait awhile and make a decision. You heard mention of the high tides in the spring time called the king tide. I want to show you where the waves were ending an hour ago. This is how high the tide was coming. You continue have a lot of beach left. Theres not a lot of space between the top of the road and the top of the water with the prediction here that youll get a storm surge between 4 and 7 feet, theres a darn good chance that the people that wl storm s theyr toby on tybee island at the mouth of the savannah river. Coming up, well talk with a woman in the bahamas who was trapped. The rest of her story next. Limu emu doug hour 36 in the stakeout. As soon as the homeowners arrive, well inform them that Liberty Mutual customizes home insurance, so theyll only pay for what they need. Your turn to keep watch, limu. Wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ] only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Shepard dorian finally begins to inch away from the bahamas, were hearing more details. Our next guest said she was with her 7monthold baby and her boyfriend trying to leave their apartment on grand bahama when their jeep got stuck in rising flood waters. She said her landlord rescued them from the middle of the road since emergency lines were all busy. Bianca strong joins us now. How are you and your family now . Hi, shepard. Under the circumstances, i guess were doing pretty good. Ive never seen a hurricane like this. Shepard tell me what it was like. Well, its been stuck on us for two days now. So what got us, we were not prepared for it is the flooding. The areas in the grand bahama that never flood are flooded. People are all over the place. Ive never seen anything like this. Shepard are your in your home now and what are you see something. Yes, we just got back to the apartment. Still a lot of water. We drove through certain parts. We had to take a detour to get to where we live. Were only about five minutes away from home. But we had to go all the way around because there was so much water and flooding going on. Some parts that you could not get to. Cars stalled out because they were trying to get through certain roads and they got stuck. Shepard how is your baby . Hes doing great. Hes sleeping at the moment. Still not affected by it all. They dont know whats going on. Theyre so innocent and small. They dont understand hurricanes and things like that. Yeah. Shepard 7monthold. So glad that you have been safe the last couple days. All the best to you and your family. I know the road ahead is a long one. I wish you the best. Yes. I want to say theres no way we can prepare for anything like this. The flooding was unprecedented. I want to thank everybody sending prayers and thoughts. Also, we kept connected through the storm and we kept up with family and friends. Shepard bianca strong, good luck. I know the cleanup and all the rest will take a very long time. Thank you so much. We have a long way ahead. Shepard the best to you and your neighbors in the hours ahead. Lets now go to the acting Homeland Security secretary, kev kevin mceline. Thanks for the opportunity. Good afternoon, shepard. Glad to join you. Shepard when you look across florida, georgia, the carolinas, what do you see and what is your message for people in those areas . Absolutely. Watch your viewers. Theyre worried about being affected by the storm. Hurricane dorian is moving 2 miles an hour northwest. We just went through a full brief at the National Response Coordination Center in fema with all the state Emergency Managers. Everybody is wellprepared for the storm. Theyve been working on evacuations for several days now. 27 counties, six Million People affected, a ton of assets and supplies and resources, shelters all standing by for any impacts from the storm along the coastline that you showed. Shepard mr. Secretary, when is the last time you spoke with the president on this matter and how would you characterize that conversation . The president came here to fema and hosted half the cabinet and did a full briefing on the status on the status, on the preparations and the inner Agency Support to the states. We had the Emergency Managers and governors on from florida, georgia, south to North Carolina. I think making sure were all in the same page and ready to go ill be briefing them tomorrow on the storm and the impacts with fema leadership team. Lock at his tweeter feed. Hes pushing out the information that fema is sending out, the National Hurricane center is publishing on the forecast. Making sure that all of his followers are up to speed on whats happening with the storm. We want people to pay attention. Shepard secretary, one thing that people should know what would you like to tell them . Id like to tell them not get complacent. Because the current track shows it off the coast of florida, that does not mean we wont see Tropical Storm force winds or hurricane winds lashing the coast. As it heads up to georgia and South Carolina, we could still face a landfall. Any movement off of that track to the west could be a different situation. Its a powerful storm. 110 miles an hour sustained winds. The windfield has expanded. Well see a broader impact as the s toes and be weary of this storm. Shepard well keep following it. Secretary mcaleenan, your department of Homeland Security over immigration. Its been in the news a lot lately. How would you are you in lock stem agreement with the president on immigration policy . Were addressing the Immigration Crisis and tighten our immigration enforcement. Theres a number of key regulations that will help us do that and making big problems working on the border and working with mexico and Central American partners which is a regional partnership. Shepard the question was, are you in lock step with the president on immigration . I ask, as you know, because of the rollout of the replacement for the flores agreement which now says the United States is hold children for more than 20 days with their parents in federal custody. When that rollout happened, you didnt do it at the white house but somewhere else. Inside the white house, there was a lot of push back on the way you handled things. Is that because you disagree with the president on this policy . Absolutely not. Weve worked on the flores regulation a year. I had over 100,000 comments and we wanted to get that out as quickly as possible. If youre forced to release people not before they go through an immigration proceeding, you cant create any integrity in the process. So we needed flores out. I announced it at a dhs facility and its appropriate. Shepard are you concerned that the United States is Holding Children for extended periods of time . Many cases children that havent done anything wrong except come with their parents as instructed. So first of all, unaccompanied children arriving, now we have the emergency funding from congress that we asked for on may 1, we got it two months later, weve been able to with our health and Human Services partners move children out in less than 24 hours. Children are not waiting at border stations any longer. For family units, right now theyre actually going into the migrant protection protocols. If they dont have a claim of asylum being repatriated. The remainder are being released waiting for a proceeding. We would like to maintain custody at a Family Residential center like the obama administration. That takes 40 to 50 days on average. Thats how you have integrity. Theyre campuslike settings and have dining, medical facilities and courts on site. So theyre an appropriate place to manage the immigration process. Shepard youre the acting secretary of Homeland Security. Would you like the permanent job . Im honored to be serving in this role. Were solving problems and making a lot of progress. As you can see with the people behind me, great americans that are here to get ready for a storm like this and protect the American People and address any response in these states. Its an honor. No secretary mcaleenan, thanks to the people there doing such great work for our folks. Thank you. Ill let them know. Shepard secretary Homeland Security, kevin mcaleenan. As we reported, were learning about folks stranding on rooftops trying to escape flooding. Well talk to the man leading the u. S. Coast guard efforts on the island. Thats next. Of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. Oh under 7 . announcer and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. 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Dangerous winds and life threatening storm surge will continue in to the night. These are live pictures now. I thought they were. They are live pictures coming in to us from port st. Lucie, which is in st. Lucie county along the east coast of florida. Big waves have been coming in there. Theres more ahead. The u. S. Coast guard has been on the ground there helping rescue people in the bahamas. Admiral eric jones joins us. Admiral, weve seen the first pictures out of great abaco. And it looks like an absolute hell on earth. If theres anything standing, its hard to find it. I wonder if your people are in there yet. We are working, shepard tirelessly to tray to get in there as dorian moves off. Weve been hampered today even though theres been a little northern motion weakening of the storm has led to the expansion of the wind fields and rain bands. Secretary mcaleenan mentioned. We made it 12 miles further to the northwest and the treasure kay area of great abaco island. Still waiting to get to little abaco and grand bahama island. Shepard abaco island is where the storm came ashore in marsh harbor. I wonder what your eyes on the ground or in the boats are telling you. We dont have boats there yet. We have seven helicopters with customs and border protection. Theyre flying over, assessing where we can potentially bring in boats and land aircraft. Theyre looking for folks in distress that they can get to and once theyre at the end shepard i think he is accidentally pressing a button. Go ahead, admiral. Are you still with us . Apparently we lost admiral eric jones. I will tell you that the we keep talking about abaco island. The scenes there are i hate to use the phrase, looks like a bombs went off. I cant think of a better way to describe it. I remember the days after hurricane andrew landed in south florida. You may remember, you know, so long ago. We hadnt seen that kind of destruction since hurricane neil in the 60s. Looked like piles of lumber instead of homestead and the rest. And though certainly the buildings are different on abaco and the topography is different, its jarring and very disturbing to see. Leaving people wondering what theyre going to find there. A storm surge of 23 feet on an island that really doesnt have a lot of peaks and valleys. Largely flat. Now worries not just about cleanup and rebuilding and that sort of thing but about the people that stayed behind there. The United Nations says some 60,000 people in the bahamas. Again, this is from the United Nations. Theyll need clean water and shelter in the days and weeks and months ahelp. You hope that people on great abaco found some shelter or got off the island. Because its a scene like few weve seen. Wrapping up the hour, neil cavuto will pick up coverage in just a moment. Continuing coverage from dorian as it continues to move. Well get another update at 5 00 eastern time, 4 00 central. Right now the final bell is ringing on wall street on a down day. Down about 1 . Better than this morning. Best in business is also from cavuto. Your world starts now on fox news channel. Thank you, shepard. Dorian and the dow, fox on top of two storms still bearing down. Welcome. Im neil cavuto. Hurricane dorian had yet to make impact on the United States. On wall street, a key manufacturing number that disappointed everybody, that had a lot of investors selling. Were on top of it all with susan li on the trade storm that started a selling storm at the corner of wall and broad and Florida Republican senator marco rubio on the storm surge that is coming to his state. Ellison barber on how coastal communities are bracing. We begin with ellison in jupiter beach, florida. Ellison, how is it