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Authorities that they are to try to reach the areas devastated by the storm. Hurricane dorian pounded the northern bahamas for more than 24 hours as a category five storm. At least seven people are confirmed dead, but officials fear that number will rise, as search crews make their way into those submerged neighborhoods. We are in the stage where we are beginning to get on the ground, get our people in the right places, and begin to focus on the needs and concerns of those in distress. New video today showed some of the damage left behind at the airport on the island of grand bahamas, and you can see just about every building at the airport was affected, and wrecked planes are now scattered there on the runway. This afternoon the storm is moving north, a relatively safe distance from florida, but still with dangerous 105 mile perhour winds. Right now dorian is about 150 miles south of charleston south carolina. And the storm is expected to scrape the carolinas tomorrow and friday. As dorian creeps up the atlantic coast, people are preparing for the impact of strong wind and rain, Lauren Blanchard is live now in Atlantic Beach florida with the latest on the conditions. Reporter we are getting the wind and rain, despite the fact that dorians ideas more than 100 miles off of the coast, and now weight north of this area, just goes to show that if the storm does eventually make landfall it can bring some really catastrophic wind and rain, thats why officials are telling people not to take it lightly. Dorians size and erratic path have people in several states bracing for the worst, its moving up the east coast and still could potentially make landfall in the carolinas. Even if the storm essays offshore, the outer bands are powerful enough to cause serious damage. Triple threat of heavy rain, high tides and storm surge, theres a threat of wind, a higher risk of wind, so its really a quadruple threat. Hurricane warnings are in effect from Central Florida all the way up through North Carolina. Millions of people remain under evacuation orders. Fema says its all hands on deck. About 10,000 federal and National Guard troops activated in four states, 40,000 line workers ready for electrical restoration. President trump has been briefed on the efforts and says much needed help is finally reaching the bahamas, where dorian has left islands like grand bahama in ruins. We are sending some people to give them a hand, they need a big hand. What is going on over there is incredible. The u. S. Coast guard, United Nations and the red cross are among agencies trying to reach disaster zones in the bahamas. And take a look at the surf behind me. Right now authorities have asked people to stay away from the beach for the time being, even so, just like we see with every hurricane, people are coming out to check it out themselves. At the problem we saw earlier today, a woman was down at the beach, she ended up getting swept in by the waves and had to be rescued. Authorities here have asked people not to do that, even still we have seen some surfers going out. Thats hard to believe. I would stay as far away from the water as i could. Thanks for the update lauren. Not only puts them at risk but also the rescuers who have to go out and try to save them. Okay, so lets get to the latest path of this system, where does it look like its headed, and we think it may change course a little bit . It looks like the models are pretty locked in, and the good news is that its mostly staying offshore, thats not to say that there are not fans of wind and rain taking their way to north florida and georgia, and you can certainly see that as we take a look at it. It is still relatively strong, its still a category two hurricane, and right now people in places like savannah, are looking out for all of the storm surge that they can be dealing with. As you can see, expecting 4 to 7 feet of storm surge, so going to be a very rough night tonight for those who are in places like charleston and savannah. So hurricane, category two, still 110 mileperhour sustained winds, its heading north northwest at about eight miles per hour, about 110 miles off the coast of south carolina. It is tracking right along the coastline, again expected to stay offshore, but that does not mean that they wont be experiencing that wind and rain. This is what the models are predicting, is there going to be any kind of a landfall . If there is, its most likely that it will be in the North Carolina area, and thats that area that sticks out into the water. They are often times the ones who bear the brunt of it. You see the dry air behind it, it has not managed to wrap in there, but when it does it will only start to slow this down and get it to dissipate. Right now, just kind of a wait andsee for those along the coast. A celebrity chef is in the bahamas setting up his nonprofit world central kitchen to feed people in need in the aftermath of dorian. The chef posted these photos on twitter of his relief operations center, that where the team is mapping out Food Distribution routes by air and by sea, world central kitchen also responded to Hurricane Maria in 2017 and puerto rico, and since then they have set up kitchens in several disaster zones around the world. Today the chef posted a message after landing on the hardhit island of abaco in the bahamas. We are going to deliver to the people, we are going to make sure that we find a place for us. According to the map that chef andre has tweeted, they have identified more than a dozen potential sites on abaco and grand bahama islands to start feeding people there. Authorities have recovered 33 of the 34 victims and the tragic fire on board a scuba diving boat off the channel islands. The victims were asleep below deck when the fire broke out early monday morning. At a News Conference held in the past hour, the ntsb said the boat was not required to have fire sprinklers. Agents are conducting interviews with the five survivors, including the captain and deckhands, they also inspected another similar vessel owned by the same company, and theyve spoken with the families of the victims. I met with the families of the loved ones that were lost in this incident, for two hours today. It was important for us, for us they are the most important people right now, and it was important that we provided them with the information that they need, that they get an opportunity to ask all the questions that they needed to ask. It is still not clear when that boat was last inspected. Right now the boat is upside down, submerged under 65 feet of water off the channel islands. Investigators are using side scan sonar to map the wreckage before the boat will be moved. Today we learn more about the people who lost their lives. Apple confirms that two of its employees were among the victims. One was on board with his wife, and they were celebrating their daughters 17th birthday, along with a friend. Another apple employee, dan garcia, was also killed. Friends are remembering a photographer and hairstylist, visual fax designer from culver city also died as well as a crew member from santa barbara. A Good Samaritan who helped the five crew members escaped, said two of them went back to try to rescue the others. One of the crewmen, his girlfriend was on board down below with the rest of them. They told my wife that they had several birthday celebrations on board. One of them happened to have been a 17yearold young lady and her parents. They were on board. We didnt hear anything, there was no screaming or anything like that. There was no yelling, all you could hear was the fire at south. Hanson said he knew, just looking at the fire, that there would be no way for the passengers to escape. The woman sexually assaulted by former stanford swimmer brock turner has identified herself publicly for the first time. The woman, up until now, was only known as emily doe, she has just revealed herself as chanelle miller, during an interview with 60 minutes. Turner served half of a six month jail sentence for resulting miller, the outrage over that sentence prompted many people to rally behind millers own victim impact statement which was posted online. She has a memoir titled know my name, and it will be going on sale later this month. San francisco is launching yet another effort to try to combat homelessness. Our reporter was at the mayors announcement earlier today, and this is not the first time that we heard the city has a new plan to battle homelessness. It just seems like it never gets any better. Reporter youve got that right, the city of San Francisco saying this time will be different. Its being spearheaded by the citys director of Mental Health, hes a medical doctor who has really dug into the data about the cities homelessness. Hes had a chance to diagnose what is going on with the cities homelessness and its time to prescribe a longterm solution. Anyone spending time on San Franciscos streets can see the homelessness crisis firsthand. City leaders say the latest data backs that up. A new review of city records by the director of Mental Health a attack homelessness systematically. As far as we know, San Francisco is the first to defy the baby or a real diagnoses, to identify a population and Tailor Solutions to that populations needs. The data shows that about 4000 Homeless People face the most dangerous commission of mental illness, Substance Abuse and homelessness. The city expects to launch a new program to address the 230 most critical of those of 4000 individuals. Hitting them City Services and into beds as soon as possible. The first step in what the city says will be an ongoing multiyear, multiphase process. At this point the details on what that longterm plan will be have yet to be worked out. The city acknowledging the frustration in a city that has faced this problem year after year. What is different this time . This time is it actually going to happen . Its happening as we speak. We are going to be focusing intensely on this population every week. We are going to do whatever it takes please permit the mayor voicing her support, saying the Ongoing Program needs to start somewhere and must address the ongoing homeleness isis. It is not humane to continue to allow this to occur on our streets. That is why we have to move forward with a number of initiatives to help address this. Just outside the News Conference, eddie sat the walkway to other Mental Health clinic. He says this clinic is helping him get his life in order pretty says he is in temporary housing, at least for now. If i cant stay there i will be on the streets. You want to see these changes . Oh yeah, i need to see these changes. The mayor says streamlining City Services, making sure all the Department Working together in a cohesive matter is critical moving forward. She has also identified some 60 million over the next two years to help address the homelessness crisis. Seth curry using a force that is not basque about to try to change lives, we will tell you about the partnership he is forming with the pga tour to raise money for kids. And we have some rainfall today, some popup rainstorms, we will talk about the monsoonal moisture in our area and what it means, in your bay area forecast. Dater. And is used by most patients today. Neulasta is for certain Cancer Patients receiving strong chemotherapy. Do not take neulasta if youre allergic to it or Neupogen Filgrastim . An incomplete dose could increase infection risk. Ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems, allergic reactions, kidney injuries and capillary leak syndrome. Have occurred. Report abdominal or shoulder tip pain, trouble breathing. Or allergic reactions to your doctor right away in patients with sickle cell disorders, serious, sometimes. 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Reporter this was a day of firsts, most kids here have never been on an overnight camping trip, and most of the San Jose Police officers have never led one. But today they headed up together to the santa cruz mountains. When i first came here i was like what, like oh my gosh, pretty emotional. Its a much different view than what they get at home. On our way here there were several kids that said ive never seen the mountains before. Police referred to their neighborhood as a crime hotspot, something that the chief is determined to change. This marks the launch of a new program that is designed to give more attention and more resources and more help to this one place. We are here because we want to show you that you matter to us. This overnight camping trip is the highlight, complete with games, rock climbing and archery. They have backpack giveaways, ice cream trucks and a foot patrol. I made a conscious decision to say we will poor every resource we have into that area. The chief says he is in this for the long haul, they are resources to expanded to other schools not just yet. This is public safety. This is proactive public safety. About 25 officers are up here for the inaugural overnight camping trip. The chief hopes this will be the first year of many. Seth curry is working with the pga tour to try to bring golf to bay area youth. The pgas Charitable Foundation is teaming up with stefans a foundation, it will provide people with safe places to learn about and play golf. They will host the inaugural classic one week from monday, the goal is to raise more than 1 million that will be split between foundations. Oprah winfrey is coming to San Franciscos new chase center on her newly announced arena tour. This will be oprahs First National arena tour in five years. Its called oprahs 2020 vision, your life in focus. The nine city tour is presented by weight watchers, its being called a wellness event, and will be at the new chase center next year on saturday, february 22. I wouldnt mind seeing oprah, thats undefined. Lets bring in kyla for a look at your forecast. Another pretty nice day out there. Yeah, notice whats happening with all this monsoonal moisture in the western part of the country. In fact, earlier this afternoon at about 1 30 we had some storms roll through. Right now you can see that they are going through chico, and there is lightning associated with some of these storms. At 1 30 my sister messaged me and said it just rained in petaluma. And you can see a kind of rolled it to the north and the east. This is the time of year where we have to keep an eye out for that, and when you hear of lightning, you think fire danger. We do have some pretty calm winds right now, and that is a good thing. As you take a little look for a further south, it gets a little windier. We will see that northwesterly float turn into a westerly flow as we had throughout the afternoon and evening. Beautiful out there though, heres a live look at our gorgeous city, just blue skies and spectacular 60 degrees right now in San Francisco. 88 in santa rosa, oakland is about 70, livermore is 93, so this monsoonal moisture will be with us as we go throughout the evening tonight and again you can see its really fired up along that nevada california border. And we do have the slightest chance of a little popup thunderstorm happening as we go throughout the night tonight. Overnight lows will be mild today, about 58 degrees in San Francisco, about 61 if you are in free na, and 60 in san jose. So tonight that chance of dried lightning, so if any showers do fall they are likely to be very limited and very quick. We do have a cooling trend that will continue tomorrow. And then everyone looking at a bigger temperature drop as we head toward the weekend. We will talk about that when i come back with your five day forecast. A makeover for San Franciscos Ferry Building, up next, one of the owners of the iconic building joins us here in the studio to talk about the plans. The San Francisco Ferry Building is about to get a serious makeover, the historic landmark along the waterfront is going to undergo a twoyear renovation project including repairs to the fagade and a new paint job among many other upgrades. Joining is now in studio to talk more about the work thats going to be happening is drew gordon, Senior Vice President at Hudson Pacific properties. Thanks for coming in today, pretty exciting project here. This is a 120yearold landmark, along the waterfront in San Francisco. How are you planning to restore the Ferry Buildings original beauty . Sure, if you are a fan of the Fer

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