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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

All right.

Today's Thursday, September 5th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Hurricane Dorian back to a category three storm began raking the southeast

the United States border early Thursday and left tens of thousands of people without power as it

threatened to inundate low-lying coasts from Georgia to Virginia with life-threatening storm surge

after its deadly hit on the Bahamas. Dorian crashed into the island nation as its strongest

hurricane on record, leaving widespread

devastation and at least 20 people dead.

But it weakened substantially in the days since, dropping from a category 5 to a category 2 storm

before increasing again late Wednesday.

The storm is expected to cause about 700,000 outages in the Carolinas.

Resources from 23 states in Canada are said to be responding as soon as it's

safe to do so. More than 1,500 people sought refuge in 28 shelters in South Carolina, where

sheets of rain began falling late Wednesday in the historic port of Charleston located on a peninsula

prone to flooding. At 2 a.m. Thursday, the distinct eye of the hurricane turned about 105 miles

south of Charleston moving north at 7 miles per hour off of the hurricane turned about 105 miles south of Charleston, moving

north at seven miles per hour off of the coast with dangerously high winds of 115 miles per

hour. Hundreds of sheltered animals from coastal South Carolina have arrived in Delaware

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