Eye of the hurricane. What you see these bands coming through and the wind will increase. The rain will increase. And we are seeing these bands kind of increase with frequency closer and closer we get to the eye of the storm. It hasnt been really that bad. We havent seen anything that catastrophic wins 50 miles an hour on tybee island and water up and over the top of tybee island. We seen the roads have been submerged and you have Power Outages but Power Outages by Georgia Power around the number of 2,000 right now so nothing really catastrophic. But with that said the worst is yet to come. Look for the magic hour 1 30 on the money. That is high tide. That is about the time you will have a lot of the storm surge pushing up in this area. So then the roads that connect the mainland with the Barrier Islands and the coastal areas, those are very low, very near the water level. Those should in all likelihood be submerged at that time hear what that means people right out the storm and the b
What weve now learned tonight. The new vaping ban this evening. Flavored ecigarettes. Where the ban is now in place, as lawmakers call teen vaping a Public Health emergency. President trump tonight diverting billions of dollars from the pentagon, from the military, to fund his border wall. Tonight, the controversy. The major blow dealt to british Prime Minister boris johnson, the champion of brexit. President trump has called him britains trump, tough and smart. Has the new Prime Minister, though, been outsmarted . And news coming in in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The man now pleading with the judge to keep his name private, as the judge now decides whether to make documents public. Could they contain hundreds of names . Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. And we begin with Hurricane Dorian, lashing the u. S. Coast right now. Its taken days to get here, but its here. And authorities are warning of lifethreatening storm surge even before the
View of some of the damage there in the abacos, miles and miles of what was a tropical paradise has been reduced to rubble. Incredible aerial shots there. And the airport in freeport is still closed. Just one look at damage there, of course, explains why. The death toll in the bahamas now stands at 20 and that is expected to rise. Well, cnns Patrick Oppmann has an exclusive report from freeport. Coming up, our paula newton is on the island of abaco and our derek van dam is standing by in charleston, South Carolina. But lets begin with the forecast. So we turn to meteorologist pedram javaheri, who joins us from the International Weather center. So talk to us about this. Its been upgraded and where is it going . Where is it headed . Yeah, rosemary, its a menacing storm system. A major hurricane, as you said, a category 3, sitting just about 100 miles south of charleston, South Carolina, at this hour. Take a look at the fortunate nature of some of these cities, daytona beach, jacksonville
She chose safelite. With safelite, she could see exactly when wed be there. Teacher you must be pascal. Tech yes maam. Tech vo saving her time. [honk, honk] kids bye tech vo . So she can save the science project. Kids whoa kids vo safelite repair, safelite replace welcome back everyone to this undprentsed night here on cnn. Im don lemon. Thank you for joining us. We have heard from eight candidate on this stage. We have two democratic president ial candidates left. Answering voters questions about the climate emergency. Scientists tell us we are seeing the consequences of the Climate Crisis now. That will be cross a massive Tipping Point if the world warms more than 1. 5 degrees celsius. We have already warmed up by one degrees since the industrial revolution. Were half way there already. Right now, as you know, the carolinas are bracing for dorian and potentially life threatening storm surge. For the latest now lets go to the cnn weather center. I wouldnt be surprised if this storm re
And in plain english, the first reaction a whole lot of people had to what were going to show you first tonight was do they think were stupid . This involves the Hurricane Dorian. Just this minute upgraded. Now a major hurricane again at category 3. Grinding up the atlantic seaboard tonight. Well update its course later in this hour. But the short history of our first item here is simple. Before dorian arrived the president said it could hit alabama, among the other projected states. He said it out loud, said it on twitter. Problem was it was never in the National Hurricane center forecast. Dorian has shown us it is capable of a bunch of things. But striking alabama on this goround just wasnt going to happen. Indeed, its a beautiful night in huntsville this evening. Low 80s. Sun all week. First chance of rain next tuesday. Back to our story. The president got peeved over all of this. He insisted alabama was some of the early projections that he saw. And then we saw this. His hurricane