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menacing path towards florida. oh. well, we just spend all day telling everyone towards georgia. towards the carolinas and the how we customize car insurance, united states from the because no two people are alike, so... destruction in the bahamas to the race to get ready along the limu gets a little confused when he sees another bird east coast, cnn is covering it that looks exactly like him. all. i am going to start with cnn's [ loud crash ] yeah. patrick ottoman who has been he'll figure it out. only pay for what you need. doing incredible reporting for us live in freeport, bahamas. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ patrick you got back from viewing this devastation firsthand. tell us what you saw. >> reporter: yeah, jake, for the first time today after being breaking news. battered by the storm for days utter devastation in the and days it was finally safe backpacks. neighborhoods reduced to rubble. an estimated 13,000 homes as of enough to go out. we were not able to access much now destroyed. of the island. at least five people have been there were so many other places that we wanted to go. killed. one official saying that death but the streets were still underwater or blocked by cars. toll is sure to rise. we did get to the area where amid the tragedy local residents have stepping up to rescue regular bahamians have decided stranded neighbors. they have been using jet skis and boats to do what they can to to stage a rescue mission with safe strangers, rescue families. jet skis and small boats. let's show you what we saw there. they estimate hundreds are still waiting for rescue. officials say thousands of we are walking out to staging federal employees and troops area where they are bringing have been deployed in response people in from the communities to the hurricane, which is now out here that have been flooded. targeting the east coast of the sometimes one at a time. united states with mandatory you can see there are still evacuations in order up the coast. nearly 5,000 national guard hurricane-force winds and rain coming down on us, yet these people are going out and pulling members, 10,000 from the coast people from their houses, from guard, all in place to try to on top of their houses, and help respond to dorian. saving their lives. and just take a look at the there is a little baby here. track. tomorrow the storm should be in a boy. they are covering him up and northern florida before it makes a turn towards south carolina by thursday. protecting him. the mother. and hurricane dorian, of course, come through, come through. will be one of the topics good job. discussed at tomorrow night's cnn climate crisis town hall. and they are going on a jet ski. ten democratic presidential candidates will join live from sometimes the boats -- ma'am, 5:00 p.m. to midnight. how are you doing? that's only on cnn. you made it. >> yes. >> reporter: how high did the you can follow me on facebook water get? and instagram and twitter. >> up to the first floor. i'm jake tapper. >> reporter: you are safe now. >> yes. tweet the show at the lead cnn. our coverage on cnn continues right now. >> reporter: as she was saying, the water was up to the first floor of her house. happening now, breaking many people here told us that news. utter devastation. the water came in so quickly we're getfaas the into this neighborhood, you wouldn't be able to tell, but there are hundreds of houses back there. the only way to get the people from the houses are from small boats and jet skis. what's going on? >> yeah, we are trying to do the rescue here. after the hurricane. >> reporter: how many people are out there still? >> a few hundred. >> reporter: a few hundred? >> yeah. a lot of homes over here. >> reporter: it's tough to get out there and get them? >> it's tough. >> reporter: how long are you going to keep doing it? >> until we get everybody. we are bahamians. we will not stop until we get everybody in. >> reporter: this is all volunteer. people are coming, bringing their jet skis, bringing their boats. they are going to get their neighbors, they say. everyone says they know of people. they say it's hard to navigate because there are no more streets. and yet they are doing it. you don't see anybody from the government here. it is all very ad hoc. people coming with what they have. the jet skis they have, they are dealing with horrible weather conditions. it's not safe to be out in a boat right now. it's not safe to be out here at all, yet they say they know people are out there. people lost their lives out there. they have brought back at least one body. they stay they will not stop until they get everybody. they have hours, if not days, of work ahead of them. while we were out there we were still feeling hurricane-force winds. we tried to get in the boat, but they had to spuspend the rescue operation after several jet skis flipped over. they hope to try later today to keep bringing people in. again just a few boats and jet skis. it's not organized by the bahamian government. it's not organized really by anybody. these brave people are putting their lives on the line to bring their neighbors in from these houses. they said they auto nwould not get-everybody. there are hundreds of people out there. they brought in several dozen today. there are more people than boats. many of those people have to spend another night out there trapped in their homes. >> patrick, you spoke with a man who watched his wife drown in front of him. these storm survivors are going through horrific, horrific ordeals. >> reporter: yes. his name is howard anderson. sorry, howard armstrong. a crabber. very well known in the community. his wife, he said that they ended up riding out the storm as the water came up on the first floor of their home on their kitchen cabinets. the kitchen cabinets. the wife collapsed. he was holding her in the water. she had hypothermia. finally she slipped out of his arms, she drowned. he barely got out of his house. he has not had anything to eat. he didn't want anything from us. he was waiting to see if his wife's body would be brought in. completely traumatized. other people said their family members are missing or had been seen taking away by the storm surge. it's going to take a long time before a full accounting can be done here of how many lives were lost in this storm. again people are trying to carry out these rescue missions in conditions that are not safe. they say they have no other option. >> patrick, you tell us that the destruction to the bahamas is worse than expected. tell us more about that. why is that? >> reporter: yes. it's just that it's impossible to get so many places. the flooding is still so deep and this storm, the worst of it has passed, about you we are still feeling hurricane winds. it's really a story about the flooding. this island, it is so low. it's only 30 feet high in the highest point of land. so much of this island is still underwater. and we were in a big truck and still it was impossible to get almost everywhere. we have heard stories, reports that people are in terrible shape at the hospital here, the main hospital. grand memorial. we were not able to get there. we have heard other stories of people who are completely cut off, whose houses were swept away. we tried to get to those neighborhoods. we were not able to get there. we have not heard of anybody coming in from the outside. the airport, of course, is underwater. more importantly, there are many neighborhoods here that are completely underwater and we have not heard a word if there were people there and if they have survived. >> all right. patrick, great reporting. stay safe, my friend. let's go to our meteorologist. tom, florida is just now starting to feel more of this storm. exactly how far do these hurricane-force winds stretch, and who might soon be facing them? >> well, i tell you we are at five miles an hour. that's better than stationary, but in the grand scheme of things five miles an hour, jake, is still slow when it comes to a moving tropical system. that means hour after hour of just battering the coastline. they are still getting battered in freeport and grand bahama islands. let's talk about the distance. right now the same distance as yesterday from the coastline. 100 miles from fort pierce. yesterday it was about 105 from down in areas of west palm. let's look at this because each time this storm goes through what we call an eyewall replacement cycle. that's where it can only sustain strength for so long. those winds, as it goes through the cycle, extend outward and stay there. this happens every day, every day and a half wind. those tropical storm winds go out further. right now hurricane winds out 15 miles. we think cape canaveral, this could be 80 miles. that's better than 35 to the coast yesterday. tropical storm-force winds are out 130. this is going to create several elements as we watch this in the next couple of days as it rakes itself up the entire coastline. >> tell us about the threat as dorian starts to move up the coastline. >> okay. well, we have our track, which thank goodness has non in our favor, east away from the florida coastline. but it's still going to be at the closest approach in the carolinas within 30, 35. first thing we want to look at is when the carolinas and outer banks, they have got their evacuations to be underway soon. first of all, it's the rainfall. they have had an extremely wet august and a ywet year. the ground in florida cannot take much more. because it's down to the south, hour after hour of the feeder bands interewith thunderstorms, some could see a community drenched and the next not so much in between the bands. then the system has to pull northward. hour after hour and a couple of days of this. the storm surge is getting better on the coast of florida. now because of the curvature of the carolinas and that coastline we are looking at four to seven. now the winds. we are getting near -- we are into the tropical storm force rain from cape canaveral to daytona. northward. and then we see hurricane force wind gusts as we get closer to the carolinas because of the close proximity and again because of the curvature. we are not through with this. a good reminder to check loose items are not around. furniture, lawn equipment, you name it. tie a it all down. >> cnn's brian todd is in sewell's point, florida, just north of west palm beach. brian, that area surrounded by two rivers and the ocean. you said the hurricane is starting to push all that water up into town. >> reporter: that's right, jake. this is an example of it. we are on sewell's point road. that is one of the rivers you talked about. the indian river lagoon. you have the st. lucie river kind of catty corner to this and c conventi con converges with the atlantic ocean. the water was coming straight from the river into the street and then it goes down these streets here. we encountered ten square blocks of this area that were flooded. and we did ask a lady who lives down this way whether this is normal after a normal rainstorm. she said this is not normal. th these streets are not normally flood today this degree. they are dealing with this though, as tom mentioned, these bonds are pulling away. we are still getting hit with some of those bands. as tom said, this is saturation. this area can't take much more of this rain. this is not well equipped to eel wi deal with this right now, se. people are coming back into the neighborhoods. this is what you are coming back to. so they have to be very, very careful, jake. >> thank you. joining me now is fema senior administrator james joseph live for us at fema headquarters in washington. thanks so much for joining us, mr. joseph. we have seen the track of hurricane dorian changing almost daily. now that the storm is moving on from the bahamas, are federal resources in the right places right now to help people during and after the storm? >> hey, jake, thanks for having us on tonight. first and foremost, my condolences, thoughts and prayers to everyone impacted in the bahamas. as you have been reporting, a tragic event there. yes, we have the resources. we have prepositioned personnel in the state emergency operations centers several days ago well in advance of the track making its way, the storm making its way now, and we have been embedding with the governor's offices, working with the governors of the southeastern state and working with state emergency management officials to assess any gaps they may have in their plan and help them fill that. >> how do you decide where to send the resources given the fact that the track continues to change? >> yeah, with the track that has been moving so significantly, we are also moving our resources as well. so while we had some resources in florida that may relocate, we have resources right now up and down the coast from florida up to georgia, south carolina, north carolina, as well. we'll continue to reposition as needed where the greatest needs might be. >> so your organization, fema, announced earlier that it is recalled some people who had been sent to puerto rico. the storm was expected to make landfall there. some of those people have since been sent to florida. have you also moved people from florida to georgia or the carolinas? >> yes. so we're continuously assessing based where this storm track goes and where we see the greatest impact will be. we are looking in some areas along the coast seven-foot-high storm surge. we are looking at tropical force storm winds in florida and hurricane-force winds based on the forecast in the carolinas based on how close that's going to go to the coast. we continue to remain nimble, jake. we will move the resources tluts t truth /* throughout the states. >> best wishes to all the people working so hard to try to keep americans safe as this storm makes its way to the u.s. really appreciate your time today. >> thank you. >> you saw some of the rescue efforts underway in the bahamas and to get people supplies such as food or water, up next celebrity chef and philanthropist jose andreas is in the bahamas hoping to get food to the many victims. stay with us. more towers. more coverage! it's a network that gives you ♪freedom from big cities, to small towns, we're with you. because life can take you almost anywhere, t-mobile is with you. no signal goes farther or is more reliable in keeping you connected. we really pride ourselves on >> temaking it easy for youass, to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... 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>> reporter: we have been standing out here at the fort pierce inlet, jake, and been experiencing really heavy rains as the bands have been coming through. as you know, even if dorian doesn't make landfall here, we are certainly feeling the effects of those very wide ranging hurricane-force winds. as we came into town, everything was boarded up. the restaurants, the gas stations are closed. we could tell people are ready. sometimes you can't always be ready for everything. take a look at what we found here as we came across this area. that's a sailboat stuck on its side, obviously. we can't tell if it came off its mooring in the distance where some of the other sailboats are anchored or if it tipped on its side. it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, but it is certainly a concern. it's not just the human toll, but the property, the human loss of life, the loss of life that people are concerned about, but also the loss of property, loss of homes, loss of boats certainly for a big boating community here. jack, back to you. >> all right. i'm joined on the phone by ben malik, the mayor of cocoa beach florida, north of where randy is, east of orlando, directly on the water. mayor, i understand that right now you are out surveying your town. what are you seeing in cocoa beach right now? >> we are starting to see some of the outer bands start hitting in our area. i am out with chief, deputy chief dustin grimes and our folks, and basically the town is secure. everything is boarded up like a ghost town, which is very eerie. just making sure we -- we had to close off the beach earlier. we had some folks trying to get into the ocean, which is probably not a good idea. we have literally 12 to 15-foot surf out there. we are expecting 20-foot surf by tonight. >> people are trying to get in the ocean with 15-foot waves. what is your concern? people like that, is that your biggest concern right now? >> well, right now it's just not being a little complacent. people that have lived in florida a long time just get a little complacent with these things. even though it's, you know, considerably offshore, we are still going to get tropical-force winds for 12, 15 hours. we are going to see some certainly some power outages and i'm worried about the coastal erosion and flooding. >> i know there are evacuation orders in place. you said it's like a ghost town. did ever resident heed the warnings? obviously, the ones in the surf didn't. >> no. you know, at the end of the day we can't force people out. so hopefully as these bands come in, we are advising people to please stay inside. once the winds reach 50 miles per hour, unfortunately we can't come get you if you get in trouble. >> just as a rough estimate, what percentage of your town do you think remains in their homes, remains in cocoa beach? >> i would say 30%. given the devastating pictures we saw from the bahamas, i think people took caution and, you know, left. i know my family, my wife and son and my daughter in orlando are riding it out there. >> all right. mayor malik, thank you for your time. best wishes and thoughts with the people of cocoa beach. appreciate it. >> you bet. take care. >> as hurricane dorian targets the east coast we will take a closer look why this hurricane is behaving differently than previous ones. stay with us. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? 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why is it such a slow mover? >> you know, the lack of steering current. something we had once before. 30 hours to move half away cross the grand bahama islands. the one moving slower was 1965. it was betsy. it moved 12 miles in 30 hours, but that was over land, excuse me, over water. if we look at the history of this, jake, all these storms want do is transfer their heat from near the equator to the colder waters and the colder air at north. that's it. they want to take the path of least resistance. what we have going on is a strong area of high pressure that has been up to the north of us and it's been shifting this. in fact, a week ago we thought it was going to make a rare perpendicular landfall in south central florida and break through to the gulf. this shows a rare noaa flight the other day. not just around the storm of dorian, but they flew around the north to try to track to see if this area of high pressure was breaking down. they said, yes, it looks like it is breaking down. and then we move this because once all of the steering currents, this tugging and pulling against each other, it's got nowhere to go but stall. then the hope was, and this blows my mind about all of this, think of this. 20 years ago, jake, if we knew we had a category 5 200 miles off the coast, the whole peninsula would evacuate. because we are relying on modern-day forecasting, everybody says, oh, it's going to move north. this is what we have been waiting for that, color of cyan, this kind of orange-blue-green color. that's the trough starting to lift this system. it will take a while for it to get its act together. >> yes, we are expecting for it to pull northward. >> a lot of history involved with this hurricane. it's the strongest hurricane to hit the bahamas ever since we started recording this staort o thing. the second slowest moving on record. second strongest winds in the atlantic basin. how much of this might be a result of climate change? the increased intensity of this? >> you know, we could do a whole show on this really. but to give you a quick answer, and this is what a lot of scientists, those that study climate and tropical storms will tell you, we can't just look at dorian and say, you know what? that's climate change. that's climate change. we can look at elements within the storm, and you can look at the past. there has been a slight trend in the last couple of years, a couple of decades really, that we have been seeing more category 4 and 5. but really it has to do with the elements. and first of all, i mean, when you look at climate change, the biggest factor in climate change is heat waves. europe has had incredible heat waves. we had them in the u.s. coastal flooding is happening. jakarta is thinking about moving because the coastal, you know, areas, they are sinking because it's rising. heavy rain events. florence in the carolinas created a 1 in 1,000 year event flood. harvey. you get down to the list where it's limited and you are at hurricanes and tornados. i expect that we are going to see, when it comes to hurricanes, that's going to start going up the list a little bit. i went back in the archives here and grabbed the radar from harvey. of course, this moved to a pace that you could outwalk like dorian. what we're seeing here is, with a warmer climate, where the air is warmer, it holds more moisture. so you are getting 1 in 500-year rain events. then also you are getting warmer waters. so that's more high octane fuel, and we are seeing these hurricanes now go through rapid intensification because of the warmer waters. when you look at the list and you want to know what the definition of rapid intensification is, 30-mile-per-hour wind increase in a 24-hour period. that happens to 79% of major tropical cyclones. we are seeing that happen more and more with these storms. definitely in the last five to even ten years. then you have the ocean that is rising. that'sng a little higher and higher and doing more devastation. you can't just look at dorian and say that's climate change, but you can add it to the broad picture. >> that makes sense. let me ask you specific to dorian. the center eyewall is practically gone, but the powerful winds are stretching out for miles. >> right. >> how is that possible? it seems contradictory? >> it's a great question. the storms as they go through reorganization, that eyewall replacement, even though it's losing strength around the core, the vast majority of the energy is coming out and spreading to the top. so each time it goes through the replacement cycle it pushes the hurricane winds and tropical storm winds out farther and they stay there. then it goes through another cycle and pushes them out and it stays there. so the storm wind field is broadening even though the stronger winds at the core are weakening. so it's still a very dangerous storm. it's larger in size than it was, but not as strong in the center. >> all right. thank you so much. appreciate it. and hurricane dorian will no question be a part of the cnn town hall on the climate crisis, which is tomorrow night. ten of the democratic presidential candidates will be attending the live event only on cnn. that airs from 5:00 p.m. eastern to midnight eastern tomorrow. we are also following some breaking news out of texas. new details on how the terrorist there, the mass shooter, gunman in america's latest mass shooting, acquired that weapon. this one might have major political implications. then the search is over, sadly, tragically for divers of that mysterious boat fire. what investigators are looking for now. that's next. aim to say that more with aimovig. a preventive treatment for migraine in adults that reduces the number of monthly migraine days. for some, that number can be cut in half or more. don't take aimovig if you're allergic to it. allergic reactions like rash or swelling can happen hours to days after use. common side effects include injection site reactions and constipation. aim to be there more. talk to your doctor about aimovig. i had no idea that my grandfatherfe changing moment for me. was a federal judge in guatemala. he was an advocate for the people... a voice for the voiceless. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com when crabe stronger...strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. jill jill has entresto, and a na heart failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. where to next? 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