185-mile-an-hour winds, i know there s storm surge and it also dumped dozens of inches of rain, so i expected to see something very, very significant. you said you re working on getting people evacuated and the medical attention they need. if you had to guesstimate, how many more people are on the islands and need to get out or need medical attention and right now they re just waiting or haven t been found? it s really hard to estimate. what i can tell you, though, is today is the first day we ve had good weather. not only in the abacos, we ve been flying for two previous days but it s not been good flying conditions. today is good flying conditions, it s good flying conditions in the grand bahama island, so it gay us an opportunity to get out there and see what the level of devastation is and who needs assistance. admiral, they re very lucky
good evening, shannon. the outer band of this storm are absolutely here. we have seen gusting wind, pelting rain as intermittent bands pass through, but the storm surge is really the story. i m going to step out of the way so you can just see how violent the surf is. look at those huge swells just pressing that retaining wall. we ve lost about 20, 30 feet of beach in the last couple of hours and the waves have really begun to kick up. so for the coastline here has largely escaped 185-mile-an-hour winds that ravaged the bahamas. the prime minister of the bahamas saying at least five people there are dead, including a 7-year-old boy who drowned when his family was trying to seek shelter. that boy s sister is reportedly missing and the death toll could rise. the eye of the storm hovering over the bahamas for more than 30 hours. it made a second landfall and then stalled over grand bahama island, continue 185-mile-an-hour winds for several hours. u.s. coast guard they re helping to trans
no thanks. no thanks. martha: i watched from the beginning earlier. you can see the boat goes straight up in front of him and the guys on the boat think that he s a goofball, they are kind of laughing at him. but here it is, watch this. [laughter] martha: i don t know what that guys doing out there but i hope he s okay. that was when it was a very strong tropical storm, so there s about a 65-75-mile-an-hour at the time to be out in that kind of a boat like that, but that wasn t this 185-mile-an-hour storm that has been in the bahamas. i fear we have no idea what we are about to see when the images, of the bahamas. there ve been a few people who take and post on twitter, that s really all we ve seen so far. a lot of people wouldn t have the ability to do that, even to get cell service. it s going to take us a couple of days, the pictures of that,
seaboard from florida to the carolinas for the massive storm to hit sometime later this week. we have mandatory evacuations under way in many of those areas. the historic hurricane slowly turns northeast. a shooting in texas, the death toll has risen to 7. we ll take you to odessa for a vigil for the victims. we ll get you up to date on what started as a supposedly routine traffic stop turned into a tragedy in the lone star state. but we begin in the bahamas. hurricane dorian packing 185-mile-an-hour winds. storm surge 20 feet above the normal level. it s the strongest hurricane to ever hit this island. chief meteorologist rick
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