eastern-southeastern seaboard. once we get in say thursday morning we ll begin to see a pinch impact period there from charleston on into myrtle peach, potentially wilmington and the hatteras region for the highest likelihood of areas for the category 2 system. watches have been issued across this region. model guidance pretty consistent on trying to skirt the storm away from the state of georgia, potentially away from south carolina, but it looks like north carolina has the highest likelihood here for landfall, and, of course, the storm surge threat is going to be significant here as we go in from wednesday night to thursday morning, potentially as high as 7 feet across the charleston area and as you approach areas around cape hatteras. certainly a story worth following as we go into this weekend with historic flooding possible in those areas. yeah, most definitely. pedram javaheri, many thanks. thank you. my next guest has spent much
are 30-foot waves being measured on this particular weather data buoy. i mean, that s incredible. so the ocean is still very churned up in and around hurricane dorian, as one would imagine. we re feeling the impacts of that as well. this is a breakwall you can see here just to my right. we saw the same location about midday today, and the water wasn t topping over the break wall like it is now. so we re still getting that surging effect. so the immediate coastline of the barrier islands here in martin county where i m located, they still have the potential for coastal erosion as the storm continues to ride along the east coast of florida. we are on the back side of the storm so the wind direction has changed, and, really, the threats will start to diminish slowly exactly where i m standing here for the next several hours. we focus our attention on the space coast, the georgia coastline, into the coastline of the carolinas as well. we ve had a lot of rain here as
wilmington, potentially the hatteras region, that s the likely scenario for thursday for this storm to make a landfall. potentially still as a category 2 as it skirts off the eastern seaboard. you see the models highlighted here, the spaghetti models, the concentration which kind of confined off the coast of georgia and south carolina and once you approach north carolina, that becomes the highest likelihood of landfall. still far from over and regardless of where it makes landfall, we know the impacts on the immediate coast are going to bell felt with significant storm surge, which always is the most destructives apeck of a storm. this is not going to be any different as it approaches land. rosemary? absolutely. thank you again, pedram. we ll talk soon. cnn s patrick oppmann and his crew have been riding out the storm in freeport, bahamas, one of the hardest hit areas by dorian. they watched as ordinary citizens banded together to rescue survivors. here s patrick s report.
only five people, the captain and four members of the crew were found alive. so far 20 bodies have been recovered. most of the passengers were below deck when the fire broke out. officials say it could take months to find out what caused it. and we are getting our first look at the devastation after hurricane dorian slams the bahamas, but the storm s path of destruction isn t over yet. we ll have the latest for you when we come back. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair
well and still getting the gusty breezes, tropical storm force gusts at times, so it s very easy to take over some smaller trees perhaps. that s a possibility going into the overnight periods and the early morning hours. rosemary? derek van dam, you re doing a great job out there. we ll talk to you later. thank you. many thanks. well, it s not just humans who have been affected by hurricane dorian. one woman in the bahamas is protecting 97 dogs from the storm. she posted on facebook that 79 of them are in her bedroom. she runs a rescue shelter for abandoned dogs, but the hurricane has made things especially tough. her home flooded and she had to use buckets to bail the water out when the pumps failed. despite it all, though, phillips says all of the dogs are doing okay and a fund-raiser to help her has raised almost $170,000. and that s just so far. so we ll keep an eye on that.