landfall. dorian continues to slam the state s coast with heavy rain, storm surges and strong winds. about 215,000 people still without power in north carolina right now. dorian has spawned at least 24 tornados across the carolinas over the last two days. and now north carolina officials say that life threatening flooding remains possible. 9 inches of rain fell in wilmington yesterday. that is one-day record for the city. josh, a veteran storm chaser took one of the last flights into the abacos islands before that airport shutdown, but he got stuck there and had to ride it out in one of the island s designated shelters. he was posting updates on his twitter feed and then fell silent. there was a lot of fear he fell victim to this storm. thankfully two days after his last tweet joshua turned to twitter posting posting yep, i m
you are when they pulled that shot out and the way it is behind you. thank you for being there and that reporting. it gives you a visual of this storm and how it s continuing. let s get to meteorologist allison chinchar in the cnn weather center. this has been going on for a week now. this storm has amazing power and life to it. what are we expecting from dorian just a few hours from now? still heavy rainfall, very strong winds. again the most impressive thing about this storm is the slow movement but the facts it s been able to maintain an eye for so long. this storm really has not gone through many very weakening phases. yes, it is weakening now. this is good thing we like to see. it s obviously down to category 1 but the winds are still seaned at 90 miles per hour. this can still cause significant damage not only from the winds but also the incredibly heavy rain coming down.
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and what they live for. that poor mother. i cannot imagine that pain. so many families reeling from that disaster. we re going to continue to cover that story and the repercussions of it. other news we re following this morning. five major retailers are asking customers to stop openly carrying firearms in their stores in states where that is legal. walmart was the first to come out with this policy earlier in the week of course in the wake of a deadly shooting at its store in el paso. kroger quickly followed, walgreens, and wegmans as well. urging to take action after mass shootings in recent weeks and over decades now in this country. all of the retailers will still allow law enforcement officers to openly carry firearms there. hurricane dorian is making landfall over cape hatteras, north carolina, as a category 1 storm. we re going to be live from there in a way only cnn is covering this storm. that s coming up. at t-mobile,
of what they already had. north carolina, virginia, likely going to be the spots for the heaviest rain today. but it s not the only areas. later on tonight, boston, heartfield and portland also likely to get some rain in the outer bands. the whole east coast getting some experience of this storm it seems. all right, to the bahamas now where officials say prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and human suffering. the abacos islands, one of the hardest hit places from dorian. buildings ripped apart, boats scattered inland by the force of the wind and the water. just look at it, communities wiped off the face of the earth. one resident telling cnn it is like an atomic bomb went off. cnn s patrick oppmann has been on the ground in the bahamas for days. she joins us from eastern grand bahama island.