tuesday afternoon. worrying about something, he d i m brooke baldwin here in say, it s okay, we ve got god. new york. it s fine. victor blackwell is there reporter: before i let you standing by in jensen beach, guys run, i have to ask you, you florida, where coastal towns are guys came here in part to starting to see the heavy rain and strong winds from hurricane fulfill his dream of starting dorian. it is now a category 2 storm, his company. while you re getting emotional, downgraded in strength, but i know you guys have always been growing in size, after battering the bahamas for two days. here a year. does this experience make you want to run from this place or now, it is blamed for at least five deaths. does this experience make you and officials estimate dorian want to stay? both, both. destroyed 13,000 homes. we feel like, how are we right now, multiple precautions going to stay here without him. without him. how am i going to pull up to are being taken in flo
wind and rain, killing at least five people. we re literally in the ocean. . our team of reporters and analysts are standing by. morgan chesky, hans nichols, mariana atencio. mariana, folks have been getting ready for a week now. they say now is not the time to relax and let your guard down. reporter: absolutely not, hallie. we are going into the critical 24-hour period. i can tell you this is my eighth day of covering storm presence. officials are inching people, tourists, onlookers to seek shelter. you can see how big the waves behind me are getting. here in cocoa beach we will feel the effects of the storm. and you mentioned how historic the storm was over the bahamas. it stands to make history here as well. just to put it in perspective, sustained winds of over 74 miles per hour have not been reported in brevard county since 1979. so when we re talking about a storm that is moving so slowly, one that is as unpredictable as this one has been, everyone has to be vigil
the largest on the planet so far this year. it made landfall earlier today in the bahamas and now its next target, the southeastern u.s. coast. evacuation orders are in effect for several south florida communities, including palm beach. we also have new video in to cnn of dorian hitting the bahamas. a resident capturing the veracity of the winds and the rain as the storm comes ashore. i want to bring in jennifer gray, meteorologist, who is tracking this catastrophic storm from the cnn weather center. what are you seeing? there were no changes to the 4:00 p.m. update. winds still 185 miles per hour. so unfortunately, they re not going down. this is the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the bahamas and tied for the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the atlantic basin. so this is a powerful storm, no doubt. it s crawling to the west at a snail s pace. this is going to sit over the bahamas for several days as it continues its westward journey at only 7 miles per h
as a boat goes up in flames off the coast of california, but how did it happen? plus, minutes ago, new details revealed on the possible motive behind the latest gun massacre in america as we learn more about the victims and a 17-month-old survivor. welcome to a special edition of the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. we start with breaking news in the world lead. hurricane dorian now catastrophic and a category 4 storm battering the bahamas. dorian devastating the islands as it spins, movie ining at jus mile per hour at times. this is the strongest storm ever to hit the bahamas, the minister posting a picture of his own home and says his windows are about 20 feet off the ground and barely holding back the waves outside. as dorian inches toward florida, evacuations are under way. the governor says that includes more than 70 nursing homes in addition to some hospitals. cnn has teams positioned along the florida coast as well as in the bahamas where the storm is h