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 is key to whether we have seen major flooding in this region and let me show you why. We should little light on the river itself and made out some whitecaps but this river moves north to south, the south end opens up into the Atlantic Ocean and the wind is coming directly out of the north, we are on the western side of the eye wall so these whitecaps are moving in a southerly direction towards open w
The eye of the storm is expected to move close to the coast of South Carolina today and then move near over over the coast of carolina tonight. And as carolina residents brace for the storm dorians death toll in the bahamas has now jumped to 20, and as you look at pictures there, this probably doesnt come as a surprise. People there still desperately need in need of aid. Entire neighborhoods destroyed, homes turned to rubble and the only International Airport on the island of grand bahama completely obliterated and of course that jeopardizes efforts to bring in much needed aid. We saw Patrick Oppmann in there earlier today and there was a plane blown smack in the middle of it. First lets go to our colleague erica hill in charleston, South Carolina. They felt massive flooding before like from hugo. Is that what theyre preparing for again this morning . That was concern. Especially when the high tide overnight was forecast to come at 10. 3 feet. The good news is it actually kale in 7 1 2
Minutes. And tonight, the story about a young africanamerican woman in texas defending herself against an attempted robbery with her own handgun. Its becoming a hotbutton issue in the wake of the odessa, texas, massive shooting. Their argument will exactly why the Second Amendment must be protected. Members of the socalled squad of progressive congressmen are weighing in too, stick around. Breaking his tone in the trade wars, the Trump Administration and the Chinese Government agreed to a new ground, ground of talks here in washington and just weeks. Checking on the path of hurricane dorian. Just moments ago it regained enough strength to become a category three storm. Millions in georgia and the carolinas being ordered to evacuate tonight. Dorian is expected to bring a life threatening storm surges and flooding in the coming days. The storm it now about 130 miles south of charleston moving northwest about 8 miles an hour. Still very dangerous with wind speeds of 110 miles per hour. He
Score political points. Howie huge media storm of trumps map to include alabama possibly after saying state might be impact. Someone doctored this, folks, the white house is saying its not the president. The absurdity of he cant even yeah. This president gets the worst coverage than any president , reveal him to be stupid or uninformed, liar, howie scandal or sit trump that keeps relitigating on minor misstep, joe biden opposes only to be contradicted, is the press taken these mistakes serious enough, seeking fun raisers, should the president be calling for the actress to be fired. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Howie if there was one moment that seemed to capture against the backdrop of damaging hurricane, the tornado of the hostility the tornado and the prez, he unveiled earlier map of projected possible map of dorian, after trump included alabama contradicting the the National Weather service, include a sliver of alabama. I dont know, i dont know. I dont know. Here is the p
Tomorrow. So theres a long way to go here. Meanwhile in the bahamas, the relief crews are hoping to get more to those people in need on the abaco island and grand bahama island. 20 people have lost their lives. But bahamian officials expect that number to go up. As you can see, were four or five days into this march. And its not nearly done yet. John, i didnt think you could get any wetter. But somehow youve managed to. So clearly the storm where you are has definitely gotten worse. Well be back to you in a moment. President trump is still claiming that alabama faced a serious threat from Hurricane Dorian. Heres his proof. Its an official map drawn on with black marker. The National Weather service has emphatically corrected him saying that this was never the case. But hey, man, theres that black magic marker. Thats the compelling case that the white house is putting out. A white house source would not deny that it was the president hichls who true that black marker line. So we are goi