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Dorian Moving North, Threatening Southeast Coast Of U.S., Bahamas Official Tells CNN: Death Toll Likely To Rise; Mysterious Boat Fire

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dorian Moving North, Threatening Southeast Coast Of U.S., After 5 Killed; First Aerial Footage Shows Complete Devastation In Bahamas; Dorian Growing In Size As It Starts To Hit Florida; Parts Of Bahamas Obliterated By Hurricane Dorian; Five Killed, 13K Homes Destroyed Or Damaged; Hurricane Forecast To Move "Dangerously Close" To Florida, Georgia Coastlines; Hurricane Watch Extended To The North Carolina, Virginia Border; Flooding After Dorian Hampers Rescue Efforts In The Bahamas; New Forecast Shows Storm Threatening Carolinas, Including Charleston; About 4,300 Florida National Guard Deployed In Response To Hurricane Dorian; Hurricane Watch Extended To The North Carolina, Virginia Border; Bahamas Official Tells CNN Death Toll Likely To Rise; Coast Guard: Search For Survivors Suspended; Hurricane Death Toll Rises To 7 In Bahamas, PM Expects Number To Rise; South Carolina Prepares For Hurricane Dorian; Bahamas PM: "Parts Of Abaco Are Decimated"; New Details On Search For Victims After Deadly Boat Fire; Dive Boat Fire Rescuer Shares Eyewitness Account; Man Who Rescued Survivors Recalls Seeing Vessel In Flames: "I Was Just Totally Helpless. There Was Nothing I Could Do."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. The images and the stories coming out of the Bahamas tonight are nothing

0:04.4

short of searing. A man watches his wife drown and barely makes it to safety himself. People

0:10.0

in jet skis going into the teeth of the storm, then going back and back yet again to rescue

0:14.7

neighbors, to rescue strangers knowing they could lose their lives doing it. Also knowing

0:19.7

it's too important not to try. Tonight we're seeing what Hurricane Dorian did to the

0:24.0

Abaco Islands where entire communities are covered in water and some have simply been

0:27.6

unpoliterated. Roads washed away and airport their wiped out hospitals and other emergency

0:33.3

facilities there and across the Bahamas flooded. We're learning to the conditions in

0:38.0

freeport are much worse than expected. Our scene ends Patrick Oppmann, who joins us shortly

0:43.4

sought first hand as ordinary citizens made trip after trip into the flood waters, risking

0:48.7

their lives to save others. Take a look. How many people are out there still? A few

0:54.4

hundred. A few hundred. Yeah. A lot of homes out here. And it's tough to get out there

0:58.8

and get them. It's tough. How long are you going to keep doing it? Until we get everybody.

1:03.5

We be hemiens. We're not going to stop and have to get everybody in. We're going to

1:08.2

speak with Patrick. Shortly, we're monitoring late word from the authorities in the Bahamas

1:13.3

about conditions there and casualties. First, they'll be a new track for the Hurricane

1:17.7

and new word on where on the east coast could get hit the hardest. And for that, we turn

1:21.8

to the north. We're seeing an ocean for gray. So where is it? What's the latest?

1:24.8

Well, Anderson, I think as we move forward, really, the Carolinas is where we need to focus

1:29.3

on because that's where we could see a potential landfall as well as the biggest impacts moving

1:34.7

forward. It is basically paralleling the coast of Florida, finally picked up some forward

1:39.6

speed today. So moving out of the Grand Bahama Island, their conditions will continue to

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