evacuate to shelters. here in the nassau area, there were 2,000 people who have come from those areas hardest hit by dorian who are staying in shelters right now. and that s when you get to the other effect, the emotional, the mental anguish of knowing that yet another storm, more weather, more howling wind, more heavy rain coming to those same areas that you just fled from. hearing those sounds, knowing what s on the horizon, adding to the trauma that all of these people have already experienced. there are still 1300 people on that official list of the missing and so much more to do to talk about recovery in the bahamas. but first, they have to get through another bout of weather. diane gallagher, cnn, nassau, the bahamas. you can visit cnn.com/impact. we ve vetted several
areas that were hardest hit two weeks ago. because they simply can t fly to those islands to bring in supplies. they have search and rescue teams on stand-by who will be spending the night through the weather, just in case. there s flash flooding for people who need to be rescued. and they ve been going around, giving hard, thick, plastic tarps to the people who are trying to stay in what s left of their homes so they can best prepare for more weather coming their way. the bahamian government would like for everyone to evacuate to shelters. here in the nassau area there were 2,000 people who have come from those areas who were hardest hit from dorian staying in shelters right now. that s where you get to the other effect, the emotional, mental anguish, knowing that yet another storm, more howling wind and heavy rain coming to the same area that you just fled from. hearing those sounds, knowing what s on the horizon, adding to
you can see this is the radar. that s us. the eye wall is likely going to pass this way, but that s us, that little blue dot right there. once we start seeing that, that s going to be the strongest winds, we re talking possibly 100 mile an hour winds, and it is insane out there. i m going to take you right out there. but first i want to give you a perspective what it s like when people are hunkering down in a hurricane. can you crank up what we re hearing inside here? because it s this howling wind that s really haunting. so that s kind of what it s like for hours and hours and hours for people inside of places like this, surrounded by concrete. all the power has gone out of this building so all we have are these emergency lights. but let me show you what s going on outside. there s debris starting to fly around. we actually saw a pretty large kayak that flew over this way. that s when we made the decision
feeling the effects of the outer bands of the hurricane. in carolina beach, north carolina, what are you seeing and more importantly, what are you beginning to feel? reporter: we are just starting to feel some of the winds off of that massive storm heading this way. it will be another couple of hours before they hit that 45 to 50 mile an hour mark where they shut the brimming and no longer be able to respond to emergency situations on carolina beach. we will show you what s happening out here right now. just after high tide. the water is already rushing up almost all wait on to the beach. some of the waves are just massive. probably in the six r six to seven foot range. off in the distance, that s the beginning of what will be a very, very long storm. the wind starteds in gusts and then what you played off the top of the show, it just is a howling wind that does not stop. it will continue at that speed for a very, very long time.
days dumping as much as two to three feet of rain. that s the biggest concern, even more than the wind. tens of thousands of residents in low lying areas are being ordered to evacuate. president trump facing the first natural disaster of his presidency. we begin with cnn s nick valencia live in corpus christi, texas, where voluntary evacuations are under way. reporter: good morning, david. it is eerily quiet in corpus christi with the exception of this howling wind. the rain is also picking up here. preparations have been well under way for the course of the last 48 hours in coastal texas. mandatory evacuations are not yet in place. yesterday the city mayor asked for voluntary evacuations. a lot of residents got out of corpus christi well ahead of that. we flew into san antonio, and we were on the high which, with one of the only cars heading south.