with the people in the carolinas. what life from wellington north carolina. doug mckelway is with us. the fox news outfit, i want one of those. not the one you re wearing. you look pretty drenched. it was dry a little while ago. that has changed since about 8:00 when things began to deteriorate in the rain is coming down cats and dogs. fairly strong wind gusts. it s been mild all day with the exception of a couple tornadoes respond by the hurricane. the eye wall about 60 miles to the south of us and i believe the hurricane strength winds extend 60 miles out. think should be deteriorating rapidly. the key is the geography of the eastern seaboard. the coast of florida goes in near jacksonville, st. augustin st. augustine. up into southern georgia, as far north as savannah. those areas are largely spared because of the geography of that
wolf? miguel, thank you. miguel marquez, also on the scene for us. tonight, at least five people are dead in the bahamas, as hurricane dorian keeps thrashing the island nation. cnn s patrick oppmann is in freeport, for us, right now. patrick, dorian first hit as a category 5 and it s still very, very powerful tonight. reporter: yes, it s still a category 4 and we are still getting battered here, nearly 48 hours after dorian first hit the bahamas. it s been a full day of this year in grand bahama, wolf, and i ve never experienced anything like it, where you still have the strength and ferocity of a storm that has stalled out over us and if i were not in this protected area right now, if i tried to walk out into the street, i would get blown into the ocean. we are still seeing very strong winds, hurricane strength winds, ripping through here and that is really complicating the rescue work, even though people have
well. we re also, you know, special operations guys. we can do anything. the two plan to hike mt. whitney on veterans, the tallest mountain in california. and they ll make it. they re lifting each other to the top there. that is wonderful. puerto rico bracing for a direct hit from dorian. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m jim sciutto in new york. poppy harlow is off today. tropical storm dorian is intensifying this hour and now just hours away from hitting puerto rico. according to the latest tracking it is just days away from hitting florida or georgia as a possible category 2 hurricane. right in time, we should note for labor day weekend. today as it hits puerto rico it could bring hurricane strength winds, flash flooding and the most rain the island has seen in a single day since hurricane
heavy rainfall, storm surge and near hurricane strength winds are expected when it hits the us, the storm possibly making landfall wednesday in the florida panhandle. pete: major league baseball playoffs, a look at aaron judge. look at this. high drive on the way back, deep left centerfield but my goodness. aaron judge. pete: the deepest part of fenway park. the yankees, sanchez had two, he had one for yankees win 6-2 over the red sox coming back to yankee stadium. a lot of the crew are excited about this. and a 3-1 win over the cleveland indians, astros close the series tomorrow night. i do love watching baseball.
this is what a category 4, category 5 hurricane will do to the vegetation around here. look at take a look around me. i m surrounded by debris. all kinds of different debris. wee see a lot of installation, for example. i m pretty sure that s what it is. there s also a lot of pieces of loose metal. but then there s a lot of other things that i don t even know what they are, that flew from somewhere. and that was because the force of the winds was so strong overnight that it did considerable damage to some of the main buildings on fajardo. the thing is, if those buildings were so badly damaged, just imagine how bad it ended up being the houses that are not built for hurricane strength winds. it is a very delicate situation. and also, we have to take into account that more than half the