that and the glass house. count on it. here s the storm now. really close to the coast. i think the worst of the winds on the u.s. and the bahamas and about to see it across areas of north carolina, this is the trajectory of the storm in the short term that is tomorrow morning. by tomorrow afternoon, it s offshore. you think oh, that s good. you look at this. you see cape cod and the islands, you re fine. but we think the hurricane force winds here. that s the red. now take a look at this. it just hugs the entire north carolina coastline. not going to be like coming in perpendicularly. it s going to cut across the entire coast line there. so it will cause some pretty significant problems. all of our models in good agreement. take a look at this. all going in this exact direction. that s what it looked like yesterday morning. so a pretty good track of this in the center. the red one is from the national hurricane center cutting across
george h.w. bush. a treat there. thanks for joining us on the daily briefing. i m dana perino. up next, shepard smith. shepard: 3:00 in the east, noon in the west. reporting begins with hurricane dorian. it spins up the east coast. right now the carolinas are in the crosshairs of this deadly category two storm. hundreds of thousands of people are right now without power from georgia to north carolina. the historic port city of charleston is getting the worst at the moment. city officials say dangerous winds have knocked over some 150 trees at last report. power lines are down and sparking as i speak. heavy rains and storm surge have flooded roads. dozens of roads are closed. with high tide hitting about an hour ago, flooding could be worse than expected. though at the moment, everyone
jacqui? shep, the western eye wall of the storm is about 10 to 15 miles off the coast of here. the eye of the storm is about 35 miles to the east of the bay to our north. we re really feeling the wind. if you look in the harbor, you can see the sail boats are bobbing around. at one point we couldn t see to the other side of that bridge. there was a lull between the winds. gusts around 110 miles an hour. the national hurricane center measured we ve been getting gusts at 80 miles an hour, a buoy measure add 92 miles an hour gust. we have had seven inches of rain in the charleston area. surprisingly the storm surge has not caused too much flooding like we expected. that being said, we drove around and found some flooded roads. around the state, 2,500 people are in shelters. charleston has 150 roads closed.
mandatory evacuation order for three counties to our south. that being said, the final say is in the hands of local officials as to when they open up the roads. so as the storm tracks northward, we can expect conditions to improve. the tropical storm force winds are going to linger in the next several hours, shep. jacqui heinrich. let s go to elliot semey. how are you? thanks, shepard. neil: how is everybody? everybody is tired. we think the worst is behind us. we have a couple of hours left of hurricane force winds and flooding. we re in the midst of high tide right now. we re seeing flooded streets for sure. we re anticipating and very glad that dorian is on its way out. shepard: three years in a row after a 1000-year flood, all for
you can see the eye. the closer it gets to land, that interaction messes it up and we ll see that the next couple hours, a lot of wind with this. on the coast, the winds are in the 60 miles an hour range, this buoy offshore had a wind of 98 miles an hour. that s at the center of the storm. we ll have those winds translating along the coast. we ve had a lot of flooding and a lot of tornadoes. wove had ten reports of tornadoes, significant damage in north carolina. so watch that throughout the reminder of today and overnight. where you see the red that is a high risk for tornadoes tonight across the eastern part of the state of north carolina. here s the storm surge. the winds barbs pulling away in charleston. to the north of this storm, you can see the way the indentation of the land is here between cape fear, down to just south of myrtle beach. that pushes water in there, probably five to eight feet of