to be cancelled tomorrow. orlando international airport plan to cancel all commercial flights at 2:00 a.m. monday. let s go to the general director of bahamas ministry of tourism. joy, the bahamas as many know, about 50 miles off the coast of florida, talking about 400,000 residents there. unfortunately it does not look like dorian is going to move past the bahamas. it is going straight toward it. that s correct. what we can say is dorian is expecting to hit northwestern island, abaco and grand bahama. the capital, nassau, is not expected to be impacted. certainly the northwestern islands we re watching closely.
reports of downed lines, power outages, trees blocking roadways, but overall, the damage assessment teams are really just now getting out, now that the winds have died down here. it s really now the brunt of this hurricane, slamming the northwestern islands of the bahama, but for a taste of what s coming to the east coast, well, it was very strong, very loud winds, a lot of rain and it s a slow moving storm, about 12, 13 miles per hour, and so it was truly the rattling of your bones that the national weather center predicted it would be yesterday. so it s going to be a monstrous weekend along the east coast of the united states, riding it out here this morning in the bahamas, we made it through, but it was certainly a wild ride. back to you. martha: nice to have things things a little jenna: nice to have things a little calmer for you, you earned that over this morning. phil keating is live with us throughout the day today.
right now, it s central bahamas and up next, the northwestern islands and, of course, after that, eventually around cape hatteras, north carolina. back to you in new york. that s exactly right. let s take a look at the maps and find out where irene is heading right now. it s a category 3 and there you can see the outer bands, as he said, will be impacting, perhaps, florida a little later on. there you can see right there as it touches the florida coast. the big question is where is it going to go? right now, it s a category 3. could become a category 4 later on today or early tomorrow and then, as he mentioned, it will probably be impacting the cape hatteras area. coastal north carolina as a category 2 but then it s going to continue on up through the northeast, perhaps impacting new york city. washington, d.c. it s going to be a major rain maker and it s going to be a lot of wind and people, if you re thinking about it, today is a good day to buy batteries and all sorts of stuff.