some pictures of homes and businesses along the water that are boarded up. but, guys, folks don t seem to be very concerned, not too concerned. they are stocking up on food and water. but they are not terribly concerned right now. governor mcmaster here has issued a mandatory evacuation order for several coastal counties. and i 26 running from charleston to columbia has been reversed so people can get out of here and by the way, yeah, time is running out. this is really the last day to make your decision if you are a family that lives in this area because the airport, guys, closes at 3:00 p.m. no flights coming in or out so you better make a decision soon. steve: that s right. aishah, thank you very much. folly beach, which is just down the coast from there, they are expecting 7-foot storm surge, 10 inches of rain when the storm finally comes on. yesterday i believe at 4:00 in the afternoon they stopped people from going onto the island. ainsley: did they? i would say folly beach is wh
now, richard, when you joined us a couple days ago and you were flying above the storm as well in your gulf stream monitoring dorian, it seemed to be a very come back the and very well defined and very powerful storm. now, as it gets bigger and less organized, is it ease easier or harder to figure out where it s going to go? well, it was a the problem we had a couple days ago is that the steering current that determined the direction of the storm came to a complete halt, so the environment around the storm had nothing to push it forward. now we do have some steering current, unfortunately, they are moving in a clear northwesterly direction. it s not moving very fast. it s moving about 8 miles per hour. but, the bad news is it doesn t have much room left. it s now even with daytona beach and as it continues to
there the east coast is preparing for the worst. our meteorologist janice dean is tracking dorian s path and joins us now. janice? janice: new advisory coming out in minutes. we will make sure have you that take a look at what we have right now. the storm is just offshore of florida about 90 miles due east of daytona beach. cacan you see tropical storm force winds already escaping the coast line. we have had wind gusts 50, 60 miles per hour. here is the future radar, we expect the storm to come very close to shore north florida into georgia and then as we get into thursday, south carolina needs to be watching this very closely as well as north carolina because we think this has the possibility to make a very close brush, if not a landfall on thursday into friday. forecast wind gust, here is another one of our forecast computer models, you can see the core of the strongest winds coming very close to south carolina on thursday afternoon and then up towards north carolina where, again, we
steve: you had to have a driver s license or prove you live there they don t want anybody coming in. they want everybody going out. brian: 17 minutes before the the top of the hour. janice dean tracking the storm. a major update in a couple hours, right? janice: 8:00. i was listening tout hurricane hunter had you on with great information that the storm continues to mover northwestward when is it going to move due north and east? if it continues to move westward we will be dealing more impact for parts of georgia and the carolinas and we do think at this point a very close brush, if not a landfall over south carolina and/or north carolina, so this is future radar through thursday, there is the core of the strongest winds by the way, hurricane force winds from the center of this storm. you can see that center of circulation coming on shore with this computer model on friday across the outer banks. here is the wind field so these are tropical storm force winds 170 miles from the center
though the storm, the worst of the storm may remain offshore, the back side passing over land is still going to cause a lot of problems across the east. ainsley: hey, jay, alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders are saying that this the hurricanes are caused by climate change. i know that hurricanes have been happening since the beginning of the atmosphere. what do you think the reason is? well, that s a complex question to try to answer quickly. but i will say from my historical perspective is that we are seeing hurricanes like dorian, a category 5, the strongest ever in the bahamas, records were sort of made to be broken though. we know that we have had cat 5s for many, many years, sore ten tries, in fact. and there is a lot of historical record that would suggest that hurricanes, we go through cycles where we experience periods of 20 to 40 years of increased activity and then less activity. climate change, however, is going to have an impact in the future. we are going to se