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
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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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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