And delays that we often see with the storms in other parts of the country. Not yet anyany way. They say they were prepared for this. For those who are preparing for the hurricane to slam into the u. S. , the video coming out of the bahamas is terrifying. The island of abaco the hardest hit so far. Please, abaco, please, im begging you. My babies, the four of us, please. Reporter sustained winds from dorian recorded at 185 Miles Per Hour with steady gusts topping 225 Miles Per Hour. Georgia and South Carolina preparing to take the brunt of it. Thats the strongest, largest in modern history certainly. The strongest any of us around today have seen. South carolina Governor Henry Mcmaster warning nearly 900,000 people in the storms path. They need to evacuate. The evacuations are already under way in florida, where even the outer bands of the hurricane could devastate the coastal community. It doesnt take that turn north, its coming straight in here a category 5. You have to act. Fema off
Night. The president never asked for it directly or indirectly. I slept on it and resigned this morning. As the white house and bolton fight over who left whom, the tension within the administration was palpable to say the least. President is entitled to the staff he wants at any moment. He should have staff he trusts and values and whose effort help him. Has this made it difficult for you to do your job and accomplish the president s Foreign Policy agenda . Look, i dont talk about the inner workings of how this all goes. There were many times ambassador bolton and i disagreed. Thats to be sure. Is this National Security team a mess . Absolutely not. Thats the most ridiculous question ive heard. The National Security team which is what you asks consists of National Security adviser. The secretary of state, the secretary of defense, myself, the chief of staff and many others. So, were still trying to lay out what transpired here, joining me now from the white house, nbcs hans nichols. T
Alive but getting them out is proving to be extremely difficult. We are waiting for the coast guard to give an update on the situation within the hour. Know where it held the crewmembers are doing really. The coast guard reports it plans to drill another hole to deliver supplies. Its already been more than 36 hours since crew members on the boat called for help. The ship is to cofootball fields long. It flipped on its side leaving the port of brunswick and Saint Simons Sound 35 miles north of jacksonville. That happened about 2 00 in the morning. It was overnight yesterday. The shipping route now shut down to all traffic, fire and smoke erupted from the boat known as the golden rate after it capsized. The coast guard crews rescued by helicopter but those four crewmembers apparently had no way to get out. They are from south korea in the country and the countrys Foreign Ministry reported they are stuck in an engine room where the temperature is reported to be 90 degrees. That ship is tr
We have a powerful cat 5 sitting across the grand bahama right now. Whats happening is this storm system is about to stall out across that area here. Were seeing sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. That has reduced here in the last 24 hours, but this is just an unfortunate situation for the freeport area. The backside of this storm system getting hit with a heavier band. The next 36 hours, this storm system will not veer to the right. We are waiting for our next update here. This is about 20 miles now from the coast of florida, so watching it very closely, even for South Carolina to north carolina, by thursday afternoon. Were still seeing sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. Were going to keep you updated throughout the morning. Welcome back to this special edition of kasie dc. Alongside me, tracking Hurricane Dorian, bill karins. We have a team of reporters in the east coast and in the bahamas. A brand new update. You have it. Whats the latest . Its just an intensity and position
Coast over the next couple days. Where hurricane warnings and watches are being posted. Lets go straight to the latest forecast. Jannessa, we were talking about this earlier. How often do we see on a full screen the movement being stationary, so long over the bahamas and for such a long time, leaving floridians to wonder where does that leave us . Now were at least getting some track that says we can tell you. With a higher degree of certainty. A higher degree. This is just abnormal here. Theyve never seen a storm like this before. Dorian has been brewing. Weve been talking about it since last saturday. So were going to continue to talk about dorian until next saturday here. This just in from the National Hurricane center. We do now have a cat 3. So were starting to see the intensity of this storm system. Kind of fall apart here. But the intensity is really not something we should focus on. The broad area, the energy of the storm is still very, very strong here. So sustained winds of 1