Dorian to move "Dangerously close" to Florida and Georgia, Bahamas storm survivor: "All you can see is water"

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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CNN: Hundreds of homes under water in Freeport, Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian nears Florida after devastating Bahamas, CNN's Oppmann: Bahamas "Conditions much worse than expected", CNN: Citizens teaming up to rescue neighbors in Bahamas, Bahamas resident: "Utter devastation everywhere we look", Bahamas Prime Minister: Many structures "Completely or partially" destroyed, New video shows "Utter devastation" from Dorian in Bahamas, Storm surge warnings increase along U.S. east coast, Millions ordered to evacuate along southeast U.S. coast, Millions under hurricane and tropical storm alerts in southeast U.S., Storm survivor: It was the "Worst thing on Earth", Twenty bodies pulled from burned boat; Fourteen more presumed deadTo 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	Happening now breaking news utter devastation. We're getting images of the catastrophic
0:07.4	hurricane damage in the Bahamas. Utter devastation as far as the eye can see.
0:12.1	A CNN crew sees hundreds of homes underwater as ordinary citizens work to rescue
0:17.8	survivors exhausted from clinging to rooftops.
0:22.2	Seven foot surge. Dorian is due to rooftops. Seven foot surge. Doreen is due to move dangerously close to
0:25.7	Florida tonight bringing the threat of a seven foot storm surge as it moves
0:30.1	up the coast toward the Carolinas. Millions of Americans are under evacuation orders.
0:35.6	Trapped below deck.
0:37.4	20 bodies are recovered from the wreckage of a dive boat
0:40.4	which went up in flames off the California coast. The victims were
0:43.8	trapped during the inferno. The search is suspended as investigators now
0:48.4	focus on what went wrong. And playing Weatherman. President Trump spends the weekend playing golf and playing weatherman.
0:56.0	He predicted Alabama would be hit hard by the hurricane, only to be corrected by forecasters,
1:02.0	said Alabama will not see any impact.
1:05.7	The president then insisted that he was right.
1:08.3	Does he just feel it in his bones?
1:11.4	I'm Wolf Litzer, you're in the situation room.
1:13.3	This is CNN.
1:21.3	This is CNN breaking news.
1:24.0	The latest forecast is just in with Hurricane Dorian growing in size
1:28.0	and gaining strength as it starts lashing the United States.
1:32.0	Doryen is expected to move dangerously as it starts lashing the United States.
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