inches throughout the day. storm surge i m not concerned is then we ll get clipped by areas of cape cod and nova scotia into saturday afternoon. not quite done with the storm yet. so far, it s known as a minor hurricane event for those in the southeast, but in the bahamas one of the historic and one of the worst we ll see in our live times and theirs. back to you. thank you. president trump is not backing down from this false claim that alabama faced a serious threat from hurricane dorian. he has tweeted nine times about alabama including seven maps. even the white house released a statement defending his claim. yesterday afternoon, the president tweeted maps from august 29th and 30th writing, just as i said, alabama was originally projected to be hit. the fake news denies it.
flips cars and are submerging homes entirely underway. slow speed also makes this storm more difficult for our meteorologists to accurately predict the path and the impact along florida s east coast could still be very strong even without getting a direct hit. i am now joined by our colleague msnbc meteorologist bail karens. what is the latest and specifically explain to us one-mile-an-hour, what that means. the first thing i want to talk about, we just mentioned the path and everything else. we have locked the path in. over the last 24 hours it hasn t changed much. we don t expect any big wiggles. we don t expect any big changes. so now it s just a matter of well, then, where is it? it s going to be off the coast. it s going to be a minor event for areas in most of florida, maybe a moderate event around jacksonville area, and then a minor moderate hurricane event up along the southeast coast. we would not expect mass devastation or destruction or anything like that.
this. so, maybe they get sort of cavalier or just a little too easy going about it what would you advise them. they do get cavalier. i would remind them same thing that occurred now occurred back in 2003 or 2004. i forget the name of the hurricane but it was coming up north carolina up toward the virginia coast and then began to dissipate and fall apart. once it fell apart and made landfall the rain just continued for days upon days. and instead of having a major hurricane event, we had a major flash flooding event that affected lots of north and south carolina, lots of parts of virginia. almost all the way up into d.c. people get cavalier about these things. again, it s a major storm it hasn t occurred in a while. everybody is doing what they should be doing. so i would just encourage people to do. this make sure you are ready make sure that your homes are if you have a vacation home that s boarded up, pay attention to what
possible. the the what the president gave us with the major declaration will help our families get back into a normal life as fast as possible. so i ll be glad to answer any questions. what about the [ inaudible ] what kind of damage have you and the mayor seen that stands out to you? just the amount of flooding. you heard about it in people s faces last night when you to to the shelter. you saw it on tv yesterday. then you can see it when you see a bird s eyeview, areas that you would never think would be flooded and you can t imagine what those families are going through when, you know, they, you know, maybe they followed the weather but thought well gosh, this is going to be, you know, a typical hurricane event, just a lot of wind and when you get the flooding it had to scared the living daylights out of people. fortunately the mayor and everybody showed up, brought in fish and wildlife, everybody has shown up and there s i think as the mayor said over 300 individuals resc
as possible. so i ll be glad to answer any questions. what kind of damage are you and the mayor seeing that stands out to you? the amount of flooding. you heard about it in people s faces last night when you go to the shelter. you saw it on tv yesterday. but then you can see it when you see it bird s eye view, areas that you would never think of being flooded and you can t imagine what those families are going through when they maybe they followed the weather. they probably thought well, gosh, this is going to be a typical hurricane event. a lot of wind and when you get the flooding it has to have scared the living daylights out of people. but fortunately the mayor and everybody here showed up and brought in fish and wildlife. everybody has shown up and there is i think mayor you said there are over 300 individuals rescued. mayor, you want to add anything? we re in recovery and rebuild mode but i m so grateful for what occurred