We don t have clean drinking water. we re surviving now but it s going to be a rough time. we don t want our citizens to come back. reporter: the entire city of new orleans is also without power. the mayor urging residents who evacuated to stay away until it s safe to return. where we have sources of power, it s generators only, and so it does speak to the need for fuel. reporter: people waiting in lines for hours at some gas stations looking to fill the tanks of their generators, and cars. the deadly category 4 storm slamming into louisiana midday sunday with roaring winds up to 150 miles per hour and heavy flooding leaving many neighborhoods under water. debris filling the streets and falling trees destroying many homes and businesses. we saw the tree swaying back and forth, and then about five minutes later, the whole thing snapped and fell over there on the house. reporter: this coast guard video shows the damage in grand isle, louisiana, from above, and in laplace, louis
And this is on the french island of martinique. a road collapsing. flash flooding hitting throughout the caribbean. no other major damage reported. folks up and down the state of florida preparing for dorian to come ashore as a major hurricane. you have to prepare. the governor there declared a state of emergency for all the counties in the potential path. he s warning people to have seven days of supplies ready to go. people season to be listening this time. storm shelves empties out ahead of the storm and the center is not set to hit on monday. forecasters say it s too early to know exactly where dorian will make landfall. you heard rick reichmuth explaining that. officials are telling everybody to get ready. francis suarez joins us, mayor of the city of miami. how is it going? appreciate the invitation and the opportunity to talk about this. shepard: that s the first time i ve seen this new european
Homicide. the numbers grow. reporting begins now. hurricane dorian update. the southeast u.s. braces for what the national hurricane center calls a possible catastrophic category four storm this labor day. from the florida keys to south georgoverno georgia, they re stocking up with four days left before the storm is projected to hit, the cone of uncertainty stretches about 500 miles. the center puts it south of orlando along florida s east coast. but they caution at the national hurricane center that the storm could hit anywhere inside that cone of uncertainty. right now dorian is churning in the atlantic ocean, a category one storm at last check. that said, the pressure has dropped. we haven t had an update since
National hurricane center center this morning for an in-person up-to-date briefing on this potentially category four storm slamming in. the governor said if you re not planning, you need to do so immediately. here he is. the time to act is now. if you haven t acted, act to make preparations. don t wait until it s too late. if you prepared and don t get affected, no harm no foul. if you don t prepare and you are affected, that may be something that is difficult to recover from. not only are there super long lines at gas stations blocking traffic. at every single bank and atm, you have multiple people in line to get cash. because again, after the hurricane, there could be no banks that are working, no power. so cash is king. shep? shepard: you mentioned the governor. is he going to activate the national guard? do we know? we are certainly expecting
11:00 a.m. east coast time. next update in two hours. it s likely the storm strengthened with nothing out there to break it down and hot water to give it life. forecasters say they expect dorian will bulk up to that potential category four system with maximum sustained winds at 130 miles an hour and higher gusts before it takes aim on the u.s. mainland likely on labor day monday. this hour, we re expecting to hear from officials in broward county in south florida and we ll give you an update from puerto rico and the virgin islands, largely spared widespread damage as the storm missed a direct hit and wasn t that strong as it passed by. lots of variables with this hurricane. uncertain landfall area and a possibility of a turn to the north at some point. upper level shear or competing systems, the kinds of things that would weaken a storm are nowhere to be found. instead, an i enormous body of very hot water fuelling it as it strengthens and heads this way.