he is in port st. lucie, 45-50 mile-per-hour winds. the big thing, seeing it is still stationary, barely moving. a little bit of good news in that the storm has started to weaken a little bit. still a major hurricane bu we expect that northward curve sometime this morning or later this afternoon but the storm has been better in the northwest bahamas for 24-36 hours and it is some of the images coming in, devastation for these areas, complete annihilation of some of these areas on the northwestern side of the bahamas. we were at a 5 yesterday. category 3120 mile-per-hour sustained winds but still a major hurricane and can still do devastating damage.
picking up tropical storm force windss, if they choose to say there may be a time first responders will not be able to get to them. reporter: we have gone out on this. to show you, if this is a sustained storm the remains stalled and brings these types of wind bands, the added rain from the north to the south running parallel, you could have a storm surge of 3 feet. this dock will go under and that is what the spokesman is talking about. the number one call coming into the emergency command center our calls of residents asking what is going on with the hurricane, they don t know, we have never seen this was one of the
landfall there sunday. it will stall over the bahamas monday. it is expected to dump at least two feet of rain there. dorian appears to be taking a turn also towards central florida, georgia, and the carolinas as of this afternoon. the slow moving storm moving west 8 miles per hour as just mentioned, has been shifting its path. broward county in south florida declared a state of emergency. this morning, their mayor tells residents to remain vigilant, despite continuous changing path of the storm. while we re being told today it looks more favorable of a northerly trend, we need to be prepared. and we have to then go by the saying, prepare for the worst, and let s hope for the best. as you can imagine, this is effecting all flights there in the region. airlines cancelled over 200 flights just today. another 211 flights are expected
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his plane, if it becomes a category 5, they drop devices out of the plane when they get to the eye or in the eye walls, that s when they ll tell us how strong the winds are. richard, are you with us? barely make you out, richard. are you passing the center of the storm? you want me to do a countdown? am i with the control room? doesn t look like he is hearing me. looks like we ll try to get back with him to see if we can get that figured out. this is the latest path from the hurricane center. again, right along coastal areas, some of the latest model guidance we have continues the trend more offshore. last three days we could have direct impact to florida, now looks like a storm that will rake the coast or be offshore of the coastal areas. the highest winds and rain should be offshore, florida,