smoke pouring from that boat with 34 people trapped on board. and now a first look inside the escape hatch, the tight sleeping quarters as the brother of one of the victims speaks out only on gma. walmart s big move on guns. the crackdown, the weapons and ammunition they now say they won t sell after recent horrific shootings. new twists in the college admissions scandal. a parent s legal filing reveals new files. what it could mean for lori loughlin and the parents facing charges. stunning upset overnight. tennis great roger federer knocked out by an unseated player and serena williams sails on to the semis in just 44 minutes. and good morning, america. we want to get right to hurricane dorian this wednesday morning. it s making its way up the east coast. that s a live look at melbourne, florida right now where winds gusted near 16 miles an hour overnight. and let s take a look at the satellite right now overnight. d northnd the national hurricane center warning
has already devastated one country, and it s not over yet. for days hurricane dorian slowly tore through the bahamas. and we are getting a look at that destruction right now. whole islands look like they ve been smashed with a wrecking ball. at least seven people were killed. homes torn to shreds. communities gutted. the prime minister says his country is facing a national crisis. the national airport in abaco is underwater. the runway is completely flooded. and in fact, the area around the airport now looks like a lake. knot harbor has suffered i would say an estimate of 60% damage to the homes. the mud, as we know, has been completely destroyed or decimated. and as the people of the bahamas struggle, dorian is rolling on. the hurricane has gotten weaker over the past 24 hours. but it s still packing a punch. it s now in category 2 picking up speed as it threatens the united states. our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us with the very latest on dorian s track. so wha
coast. the serious questions about what more, if anything, could have been done to save the victims. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news. powerful hurricane dorian now headed towards the florida coast leaving catastrophic conditions behind in the bahamas. our first look at the woman 1: i had no symptoms of hepatitis c. man 1: mine. devastation miles and miles of man 1: .caused liver damage. damage. vo: epclusa treats all main types of chronic hep c. neighborhoods reduced to strewn vo: whatever your type, pieces of debris, almost ask your doctor if epclusa is your kind of cure. appearing like trash littering the ground, but what looks like woman 2: i had the common type. matchsticks. those are pieces of roofs and man 2: mine was rare. doors and what used to be homes. vo: epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate. we can only hope at this point that the families who live there man 3: i just found out about my hepatitis c. esca
of course that s what the storm is doing now. what it has already done is simply devastating. the bahamas finally assessing the enormous historic damage there. we know that seven paem haeople died. that s just the initial count. you can expect it to rise. rescues have been going on nearly around the clock but they re extremely difficult because the conditions haven t improved enough to save the people who might be hiding out on rooftops. abaco island, devastated. grand bahama island, devastated. they are only now beginning to get a true sense of the damage there. throughout the morning we re going to speak to our correspondents who have made it to those islands also to people who rode out the storm there to find out what is happening as best we can. in the meantime, let us track the path of hurricane dorian to find out how close it might be to landfall in the united states. let s go to chad myers in the weather center. it looks like the carolinas due to the way the topograp
answers. 34 people now presumed dead from the boating infurnitu infern. welcome, this is early start. i m christine romans. good morning, i m dave briggs. wednesday, september 4th, 4:00 a.m. in new york and in the bahamas. that s where we begin. the bahamas obliterated by hurricane dorian. the scope of the devastation finally coming into view. thousands of homes flattened, entire communities eviscerated. official death toll stands at seven this morning. and that number is likely to climb significantly higher. on grand bahama, an estimated 75% of the homes, 75% under water. recovering from this unprecedented storm will cost billions. the world food program estimates more than 60,000 people will need to be fed. look at what used to be the runway at freeport international airport. that s right. that used to be the runway. it is submerged. listen to the prime minister of the bahamas describe the enormity of the destruction. we have been attacked by a vicious, devastat