these folks are committed to making that happen. we thank you, david, and thank everybody hyped you for what they re doing today and the days to come. thank you so much. thank you. coming up, coverage of hurricane dorian continues. we have more updates throughout the hour about florida and the bahamas and the carolinas, now on alert. next we turn our attention to politics for a moment where a different kind of storm is brewing. plenty of controversy surrounding the trump administration as the president spends part of the holiday weekend at camp david and the virginia golf club. his personal assistant abruptly resigns, now he is upped fire after tweeting a surveillance image of her as well. applebee s handcrafted burgers now starting at $7.99. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood so, every day, we put our latest technology
unfortunately friends in the northern bahamas, not as lucky for them. i want to show you the european model. one of the more reliable ones, we show you this most often. it takes the storm over the top of the northernmost bahamas. freeport could go through the eye. this is 9:00 a.m. monday morning. it kind of stalls, sits here. it is not until tuesday morning, 36 hours going through the northern bahamas, that it finally begins to inch northward along the coast. then it parallels the coastline, comes close to the charleston, south carolina area, still 50 miles offshore. parallels the north carolina coastline, and just to be cruel, comes dangerously close to areas of cape cod. richard, it is hard to get phone conversations with them, we were attempting to do it, it is fascinating work that these people are doing. men and women pilots on some flights. not the safest of all jobs but
i want you to remember, homes, houses, structures can be replaced. lives cannot be replaced. for the u.s., the big headline here, the storm shifts direction. this could mean good news for the crowded east coast of florida, bad news for coastal states further north. we ll speak with a meteorologist about the shift storm track in a moment. already we re seeing lines inconvenience stores and gas stations, anxious floridians stocking up to prepare as they hunker down. airports are cancelling flights, created crowds at regional airports. more than 200 cancellations today alone. another 200 plus tomorrow. those numbers could increase as the storm s track becomes more certain on the eastern seaboard. utility companies across the state of florida say they re ready for the worst. in preparation for the storm we have now amassed a restoration work force of 18,000
days to the bahamas, stall, and maybe not leave there until tuesday afternoon or tuesday evening. i mention it has been intensifying. we start this six hours ago, not a lot of dark red. then watch that dark red popping up, wrapping around the center. those are cold cloud tops that are around the storm. this is the center of the storm here. the eye is 20, 25 miles wide. i believe on the phone we have one of the hurricane hunters with us. richard, are you with us? richard, you re coming in and out. i am told you re looking at 100 miles north of the center of the eye. that s roughly up in the northern quadrant here. when we get him back, if we can get a better signal, we ll bring it to you. obviously driving through this in the airplane, there s a lot of interference. we would like his perspective.
fema but from across the federal departments and agencies, private sector, nonprofit organizations like salvation army, american red cross. we stay in close contact with the national hurricane center, the data hurricane hunters provide is absolutely critical to what the hurricane center does to inform us on what they believe the storm will do, and we position our resources strateg strategically to support governors and bring life-saving supplies like food, water, tarps and emergency response teams and communications. we continue to monitor the storm, position resources to be ready to go if dorian makes landfall. david, what are the people doing behind you? you alluded to them, there s a lot of folks, it is like a newsroom to me. you ve also got a red ticker at the back of the room. what is it they re doing there? so this is the national response coordination center. we have 200 people working here