winds are down to 130 miles per hour. that s just one-mile-per-hour away from category 3 status, and the gusts are down to 160. i can t believe i even said that, down to 160. i mean that s still crazy. it s better than 200 miles per hour. i mean few people who have ever walked this earth have gone through the hell that they re going through in the bahamas in the last couple of days. the eye has been wobbling, don, five miles to the north, back to the south five miles, now to the west. it s about 100 miles just east of west palm. the other part of this good news is we ve got a new track out here. even though the warnings will remain in place and for good reason and the watch is up to georgia and the carolinas, when we look at the track now, the bulk of the kind of consensus here is the same. keeping it offshore, still question marks when you get closer to north carolina, and we ll handle that in the next couple of days. it s still going to take a while to move up toward, say,
the bahamas right now and threatening florida next. the prime minister of the bahamas says the devastation is unprecedented. the foreign affairs minister there is urging people to stay inside. from all accounts, we have received catastrophic damage. it is not safe to go outdoors. power lines are down. lamp poles are down. trees are across the street. it s very dangerous to be outdoors if you don t have to be outdoors. as soon as conditions permit first responders will go to areas where we had reports individuals are in distress. we re holding strong. we ask you to continue to pray for us. and look at this video taken this morning in freeport where dorian was still a category 5 storm. the woman who took this video said there was 6 feet of water outside her house, 5 feet of water inside. she says everyone is hunkered down upstairs, safe for now, but she says the worst is yet to come. and dorian is inching closer to the southeastern coastline of the u.s. where it threatens m
coast. the serious questions about what more, if anything, could have been done to save the victims. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news. powerful hurricane dorian now headed towards the florida coast leaving catastrophic conditions behind in the bahamas. our first look at the woman 1: i had no symptoms of hepatitis c. man 1: mine. devastation miles and miles of man 1: .caused liver damage. damage. vo: epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. neighborhoods reduced to strewn vo: whatever your type, pieces of debris, almost ask your doctor if epclusa is your kind of cure. appearing like trash littering the ground, but what looks like woman 2: i had the common type. matchsticks. those are pieces of roofs and man 2: mine was rare. doors and what used to be homes. vo: epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate. we can only hope at this point that the families who live there man 3: i just found out about my hepatitis c. esca
its enormous size and destructive power and where it will impact people across the united states. this is how residents of the bahamas are preparing for the storm s arrival, filling up their cars, boarding up their windows, knowing this category 4 hurricane could just sit on top of them for an entire day, maybe even longer. let s get right to cnn s chad meyers, the national hurricane center has issued an update on the storm, the location, the track, let s hear it. as it gets closer, with cooler, air to the u.s., sheer, down 5 miles per hour in speed at a time, not really all that significant. we still don t get this thing in their forecast to be a cat 5. that s good, goes to 155. category 5 starts at 157. i know we re splitting hairs there, but there s something there. 150 miles per hour storm, 170 miles from great abico, 190 miles from where it begins to stop and turn to the right, 12 hours or 24 hours later, and as you said, could be 36 hours sitting right there over the
game. the storm moving so slowly toward the coast here. there are hurricane warnings up the coast all the way to south carolina, mandatory evacuations still underway. they are still expecting hurricane strength winds in many of the places on the coast and very dangerous storm surge. i m on the intercoastal waterway. you can see the seas, the water will rise further than this and the winds could reach hurricane strength overnight, and into tomorrow. the overall strength of the storm is down to a category 3, but that is still a major hurricane, and this is no time for complacency as the storm moves ever so slowly northward, alisyn. as we have learned from this hurricane, anything is possible with dorian. obviously you were there keeping track all morning. there s other news, we are following new details from southern california where 34 people are feared dead from that inferno aboard a dive boat. all five crew members, somehow made it off that boat safely, and now there are q