there and also the need there. because every official you speak to in the bahamas when you ask them what the need is they will tell you stay safe. everyone needs to stay safe because it s not over. our patrick ottoman says he s still feeling hurricane winds, about a category 2 level. now it s not even raining at all. so you can see when the bands pass over, it s raining so hard you can barely see the camera which is about 20 feet from where i am, and now it s clearing up completely. that s the cycle as the storm passes through here, alisyn. now i understand why your cameraman didn t want to get any moisture on the lens. you say it s clearing up where you are.
stronger up to the carolinas. this is what we have been waiting for. high pressure has been blocking the storm from moving northward. as i broaden out here, notice the color of this kind of brown. that is a trough. we have been waiting for the trough to move in now to kick the system upwards. u again, a form udable storm even in the next 24 to 48 hours, still a major hurricane. thank you very much. so stunning to think how we wait and wait and how little we know. thank you. now patrick ottoman is in the bahamas. you hear tom talk about it sitting. it s sitting atop of where patrick is. we have seen some video. i know they are starting search and rescue going door to door. you have been there. what s happening.
to answer this question, but do you think it s possible based on how unpredictable it is so far that the path could shift again? absolutely. we could still see shifts to the west. that s why the cone is under a cone of uncertainty. if it ships farther to the west, we can definitely see much, much more impacts across portions of florida and the southeast coast. jennifer, thanks so much. let s get right now to the scene of this. patrick ottoman is at the scene of the bahamas. patrick, it looks like the wind has picked up, more so in the last few hours. reporter: this is just the beginning. we re going to get probably tropic tropical-force winds. we re talking category 5 strength winds. it really is the worst-case scenario i can think of. you have the most powerful storm on the planet this year.
hour. this afternoon, the bahamas, prime minister warning residents of the northern bahamas, if they wait until tonight to seek shelter, it will be too late. cnn s patrick ottoman joins us now from freeport, not only is freeport in dorian s sights, but cnn s chad myers says this storm could stall, sit over the bahamas for 36 hours. are you seeing signs of people heeding the prime minister s warning? reporter: yes, i ve just been speaking to the government officials and they say more people than any time in recent memory appear to be evacuating and seeking shelter, going to shelters here that are more inland where they can hunker down and be safe from the storm surge, from the wind, because they recognize, as people who live on islands and deal with hurricanes their entire lives, unique threats of the storm, so they re taking some sense of heart to the fact that people appear to be listening, that people are moving in the hours that remain because we don t
but so far those are the only two we re heard from. raising grii didn t brows on serious allegations here. questions credibility. these are law enforcement officers. thanks very much. we have new developments this morning in the david ortiz shooting. prosecutors now say ortiz was not the intended target. prosecutors claiming the actual target was ortiz s friend sitting at the table with him wearing similar clothes. but as you can see from the video there they re very different sizes. patrick ottoman live in santo domingo this morning. is this a credible claim by prosecutors here? big papi is pretty well-known in the dominican republic. we saw that video there. what s your response? he s the most famous person on this island, let s start with that. everybody knows who he is. than just about anybody else. when you ask dominicans could somebody have not known, and