consideration to protect their homes and families? they have shutters, i m sure they have them up. they need to make hour they are able to sand bag if they re in a low-lying area. they need to make sure they have food and water and batteries or thing need. hopefully they did that because it s getting late and there s not much open at this point in time. jim, thank you very much for your time. it is getting late and our team has been caught in some of the rain bands. the weather can change so fast. it looks like a beautiful day but we ourselves already got pounded with rain. so, again, it is getting late for people to make those last-minute decisions and heed the evacuation warnings. ali? stay safe, because i know you have done this several times, mariana atencio live in cocoa beach, florida. we continue to track hurricane dorian, which remains very powerful and dangerous category 4 storm. lens look at jensen beach, where the storm is making its presence felt. also breaking news
carolina. five days of watching and tracking this storm and there will never be another dorian. no doubt. without a doubt wiping some locations off the map in the bahamas. bill, you were mentioning where it is right now but giving you a sense of where nassau is, that s where our morgan chesky is located. this is where the great abacos, grand bahama island and then the southern edge. these are the clouds, the rain bands and squalls through nassau but this area down here is similar to like miami. may get the fringe affects but not that bad. it is a great place to be. i would hate for correspondents to be here in freeport or marsh harbour. some weather chasers are here and will have amazing stories once they re done but yeah. glad our correspondents are not going through the center of this eye. indeed. the lost communication with people there.
you go back to history i falt the fatalities. the storm surge, three to five foot in lake ponchartrain to the mississippi coast. and three to six feet at louisiana coast. it s not just as landfall. as we move slowly to the north, the wind switch around and some people can see the peak water, maybe 12 to even 24 hours after landfall. charles: ken, the idea that this is a slow-moving system and you continue to talk about the moisture and rain bands, you said flooding is coming, there s no doubt about it, flooding is going to be a major, major issue. is that exacerbated by the fact that it s moving so slow? that s what happens. the slow movement. slow and large is our nemesis. and that s the case here. these are the forecasts sunday, monday, even into tuesday, look at the slow movement.
much of the rain bands. we see the rain bands affecting new orleans america. we re getting ready to see more of the severe weather now. and really, anticipated a lot worse throughout the course of today and tomorrow. what are the most vulnerable areas? areas along the lake shore are most vulnerable, of the storm serge threat. we re outside of the levee protection system. you see flooding along those areas. as the rain bands come on shore,
in fact, let s go to the national hurricane center for this update. when it comes to the impact, down to a tropical storm force. but we ve got landfall. we ve been waiting on that for a while. it s really because of the slow movement of the storm. here s the center, slowly moving to the north and the precipitation not wrapping around the entire center. it s interesting when you think about a hurricane and tropical storm, it s not exactly what we see when we look at a textbook version of this. the winds are there. we re hearing of damage in some of these area. that is incredible wind. look at the rainfall, some of the rain we ve been talking about that s been offshore has moved into southeast louisiana, the south shore and north shore of lake pontchartrain. look at the rain bands, moving up as far as jackson, mississippi, brandon, mississippi. that will push further north. not just along the coast, but heavy rain northward. we ve mentioned this area here, the rain bands, the storm is