And ammunition sales. We have a look at what this could mean for the hotbutton political issue. Live from cnn headquarters here in atlanta, we welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts right now. 4 01 here on the u. S. East coast. Thank you for being with us this day. What was once Hurricane Dorian is no longer a hurricane but still packing a punch in canada right now. It slammed nova scotia, bearing winds of 100 Miles Per Hour, about 155 kilometers per hour, and it knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses as well. This is the image in the bahamas. A very different story. A story of just a lot of devastation there. Officials there ramping up efforts to recover to help people get back to what they can find. This after dorian left the islands in total ruin. The storm killed 43 people there. But that number is expected to rise. Some on the island who lost everything are now scramble to go try to escape.
on the west coast of the united states in california, investigators are slowly coming up with answers after a tragic fire last week, a fire that killed 34 people on a dive poet. salvage efforts to raise that sunken boat are still set to resume on monday. cnn s paul very cammon reports. reporter: smoke inhalation, not burns, is the likely cause of 34 deaths above the ill-fated dive boat conception. the belief is that the victims died and that the burn damage to the victims was postmortem not antiy mortgage em. ali kurtz, the only crew member who did not survive, was sleeping in the bunk room with passengers.