to help us make some kind of sense of all of this, i want to bring in bill karins, msnbc meteorologist. let s start with the tornadoes. i saw one of these weather chasers this morning saying i don t know what s going on. we don t go out this early, but we did. it s not like we re doing march in february. this is a march type storm, severe weather, snow, you kind of expect that as you head into the springs months. usually february is a straight and narrow winter month. here we are, four tornadoes reported today. nothing as bad as what we saw yesterday, especially around norman, oklahoma. and we have one tornado watch we re watching closely. our radar watch is showing debris in the air. our radar, which scans the sky, usually it sees snowflakes or hail or rain drops but it s seeing foreign objects in the air. that means a tornado likely touched down, sucked up some of the debris in the air and through it in the sky. that s what the radar is
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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.
in, we re thinking just how high is this going to get, because one of our weather chasers, a regular contributor to cnn, james reynolds said his biggest concern was the storm would generate a big, big wave. i mean, let s call it what it is. a tsunami. the water level rising so quickly. he said look, i have not seen a storm like this in my life. it is literally the perfect storm. and the way the storm surge came up, we thought we would just weather it in. and as we said in the report it didn t get much higher than getting near the first floor. but it was certainly a worrying moment. sometimes, wolf, you sort of sit there and tough that stuff out, wait for it to get better. and you hope like hell. you know, andrew, i know you traveled what? about 14 kilometers from the hotel you were hunkered down in, by the airport, what is it like? by all accounts the roads are just in terrible, terrible shape. yeah, the roads are in