Hurricane Dorian spawns tornadoes in Carolinas; Trump relentlessly defends claim Dorian threatened Alabama; CNN reporter spends 24-hours on ravaged Abaco Islands; James Mattis break silence after leaving Trump admin

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Deadly category 2 hurricane lashes the Carolina's; U.S. Coast Guard rescues 135 people from Bahamas; Harrowing accounts of survival in Bahamas; Powerful winds, heavy rain battering South Carolina coast; Power lines spark, transformers blow in Charleston; Tornadoes hit Carolina's as hurricane Dorian moves along coast; Trump relentlessly defends claim Dorian threatened Alabama; CNN reporter spends 24-hours on ravaged Abaco Islands; Trump admin moves $3.6 Billion from Pentagon funds for Border Wall; Mattis on Trump's decision to divert military funds for wall; Mattis: If you haven't read hundreds of books, you're functionally illiterate; Trump's Ex-Defense Secretary weighs in on Russia on the world stage; Mattis: In the military, we "ride for the brand"; Powerful winds, heavy rain battering South Carolina coastTo 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	Coming up the latest Dorian forecast, no sharpie required. The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	Breaking news, tornado tears apart homes as part of Hurricane Dororeen unleashing its fury on the Carolinas, the flooding,
0:16.1	damage, and even explosions as the storm plows up the coast.
0:19.7	It was like an atomic bomb on us.
0:25.0	The damage left behind in the Bahamas hard to believe.
0:28.0	Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble,
0:30.0	our correspondent who spent the night in the hardest hit area joins us with stories of
0:34.4	survival and despair that you will see first on the lead and with American lives
0:39.3	in jeopardy right now President Trump is today sticking with his bizarre
0:44.5	focus after using a laughably doctored map to push a false claim about the storm
0:51.8	this is CNN Breaking News. Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with Breaking News.
0:58.0	Deadly Hurricane Dorian right now taking aim at North and South Carolina on the East Coast of the US, the category
1:04.8	two storm, crawling up the coast, dragging out the danger, tornadoes such as this one
1:10.4	have even been reported. Another one hit Emerald Isle North Carolina
1:14.0	tearing apart homes in this RV park. Hundreds of thousands of people do not have
1:19.4	power across three states the Carolinas and Georgia.
1:23.5	And survivors in the Bahamas are just beginning
1:26.1	to assess the damage from Dory and the US Coast Guard
1:28.7	has rescued at least 135 people in that country
1:32.3	after entire neighborhoods were flattened.
1:35.0	One survivor telling CNN it was almost as if an atomic bomb had gone off.
1:40.0	I'm from Tampa, Mary Baim and I just want to let my family in the States now that we're okay.
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