carolina. so, we have hurricane warnings that are posted for all the carolina coastline. that front is going to help push the front out to sea, but hopefully sooner rather than later. in the morning, charleston and myrtle beach get close to hurricane conditions. watch how that center gets closer to the coastline during the afternoon and evening. across north carolina, wilmington, nags head and then by friday morning, even virginia seeing some effects of this. we have storm surge warnings from virginia all the way down to north florida. in the end, the carolinas will see shorter, but likely much larger impacts over the next 48 hours. david? rob marciano, who has been there for days for us. thank you. tonight, as i mentioned, there is an urgent effort under way in the bahamas. the u.s. coast guard on the scene. the death toll, we have just learned, rising to at least 20. at this hour, there is an all-out race to get to people in need. they need medical help, food and water. and marcu
hurricane. we are about to witness another billion dollar weather disaster in our country as we go throughout the day today, tonight and tomorrow. there is the eye, 115 miles per hour. the new 5:00 a.m. advisory, the forecast path right along the south carolina coastline, does not look like we are going to get that landfall in georgetown or myrtle beach, it will be a close call wrightsville beach. right over the top of emerald city, emerald isle and right over the outer banks. savannah up to the virginia beach area including all of the carolina coastline, the timing of the worst of it today. pictures of charleston with feet of water, it floods pretty easily anyway. it s not going to be a pretty seen today. myrtle beach this afternoon, this evening winds to get up to 90 miles an hour, we will take down some trees, power outages widespread. the landfall is when we could get the 110 mile per hour winds and that would likely be 10:00 p.m. this evening to 2:00 a.m.
the bahamas now stands at 20 and that number is expected to increase significantly. several relief organizations say they have touched down there and have started offering aid. the white house says president trump spoke to the prime minister of the bahamas yesterday and agreed to work in close coordination. dorian has regained strength once again a major hurricane, a category 3. the storm s wind and rain lashed eastern parts of georgia and south carolina overnight. this is video from charleston earlier this morning as residents along the entire carolina coastline brace for a dangerous storm surge. let s bring in meteorologist bill karins. bill, when is it going to go away? not soon enough. friday afternoon is when we can give everyone the all clear. if you went to bed last night and this was a category two, it s now a major hurricane again, category 3. that s serious business. it s been 25 years since north carolina was hit by a category 3
we are going to see this hog of the coastline, either right on sure, right offshore. but you get the idea. by tomorrow morning, off the charleston course, and then, take a look at this. it basically runs all the length of north carolina. the southeastern part of the carolina coast line. it will also impact areas of virginia and delaware by the time this is done. get ready by tomorrow night, into friday morning, we are likely talking about a category category 2 storm right off the coast of the carolinas. bret. bret: rick, thank you. news overseas now. iran is threatening to take another big step away from its crumbly nuclear deal with the west. france, however, is offering a very big incentive not to. well president trump says, he could fix the situation in a single day. rich has the latest tonight. iran will start developing nuclear friday. in my opinion, the third step
it happened in between or happened just before bahamas. these pictures of the bahamas are really heart-breaking and these are just the first arterials we ararterials.we are seeing. that said, going forward we are going to watch the storm move very close to kind of around cape canaveral overnight tonight. we will see certainly some strong wind, rain and storm surge. biggest impact across the u.s. is when the storm gets up around areas of the carolinas. that s where we will probably most of our guidance is clustered in the same spot. i think we will be seeing a landfall somewhere maybe on the carolina coast line probably a cat 1 or cat 2 storm. one thing on this radar image it shows me though sometimes usually the right side of the storm is where we have most of the moisture or oftentimes that s the case. this is really packed on the left side of the storm and that s the side of the storm that is right there close to florida. so we are going to get some