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over yet. hurricane dorian has been pummeling the island for more than 24 hours now. and it's been packing category 4 winds and storm surges over 20 feet in some places. dorian is devastating but also painfully slow. it's barely moving, meaning residents there are being hit over and over again. and flooding is also a major threat on low-lying islands. the prime minister says at least five people are dead. he's calling it a historic tragedy. >> many homes, businesses, and other buildings have been completely or partially destroyed. there is an extraordinary amount of flooding and damage to infrastructure. >> meanwhile in the u.s., millions of people have been ordered to evacuate. officials say dorian will move dangerously close to florida over the coming hours. at least 2,700 flights into, out

of, and within the u.s. have been canceled. well, cnn is on the ground in florida as dorian begins to bear down. derek van dam is in stuart along the state's east coast. nick valencia is further north in melbourne, and ivan cabrera is here in the studio. okay. so let's start with ivan. and we have an update. we have some more information. >> we do. so now we have a category 3 hurricane here. so the winds have come down, which is somewhat good news here, but the problem is it hasn't moved and it's still continued to do so. but a category 3, we haven't talked about dorian being category 3 since mid last week. that has been how long this has been a major hurricane. and by the way, a cat 3 still is 125-mile-an-hour winds. it is still stationary, so it has not moved in the last 24 hours, which is, again, something you just don't see. a category 5 and then 4 and now 3 spinning on top of grand bahama. and as long as that happens, the

winds here are fierce. category 3 winds, you're going to continue to pile water over and over and over. sometimes you get the storm surge coming in, and then it comes back out as things are supposed to go. but when you get a hurricane parked on top of you, this is what happens here. then on the back side of the island, by the way, we have a reverse storm surge coming in with a southerly wind, although this way less populated than freeport, but not entirely so. some of the outer rain bands, you've been seeing those with our reporters fanning along the east coast of florida there, and we've had some close to tropical storm force wind gusts, particularly in stuart. had an 38-mile-an-hour wind gust, now to 35, but that's been on going. those showers that continue to move will contain some tropical storm force wind gusts but i don't think we're going to get into hurricane conditions until we get into the next couple of days. what i mean by that, hurricane winds are possible along the coast, which is why we have a hurricane warning. but notice the cone is east of florida. a lot of folks think that when you're out of the cone, you're out of danger. that's not the case, especially

with a strong hurricane here. if it makes a close enough pass, the water is going to get pushed in. we have so many rivers and inlets. i'm from florida. i know this state very well. i've been through many hurricanes, and this one is unique just like they all are. and because of the shape of the coastline here, some areas are more vulnerable than others, which is why we have some evacuatio evacuations and some areas not. here's the forecast from the latest advisory. category 3, still a major hurricane, 125. tuesday at 8:00 p.m., it is still lurking east of florida. that will be the case wednesday at 8:00. eventually it makes a run for the carolinas here. the reason this has been slow-moving, you've been asking about this. they don't steer themselves. they depend on the upper levels of the atmosphere, the winds going aloft. it's been stuck between a high to the east and a high to the west. you see that orange there. we're going to dig in this trough, and it's going to begin to pull dorian finally away from

the grand bahama island and then along the florida coast. watch the clock here tuesday into wednesday and then into thursday, all the while hitting the east coast of florida with significant rain and the potential for storm surge as well. so double threats there in florida that will continue. is it going to make a landfall in florida? we don't think so at this point, which is excellent news, but we can't say that about the carolinas because basically the coast just juts out, so it's going to run out of ocean and hit the carolinas potentially thursday and into friday. but the threat continues for the bahamas for another 10 to 12 hours. they're getting pummeled there. it's going to be two days running with a major hurricane offshore. never seen anything like it. >> we haven't. thanks so much. thanks for keeping us updated, ivan cabrera. let's get more now from the bahamas. basel dean is the deputy director of the bahamas department of meteorology. this is the strongest storm to

hit the bahamas. what's happening right now? >> right now, dorian is sitting smack over grand bahama. it's been sitting there now for the last nine hours, and that's pretty much unfortunate because the battering waves, the strong surge and torrential rains are causing quite a mess in grand bahama. we had storm surges inundating the entire island of grand bahama, and persons have been calling in for relief. unfortunately because of the very strong winds, relief workers are unable to get in there. but looking at the sunlight pictures and radar imageries just before i left the station, the sudden eyewall is now starting to creeposs grand bahama, and that means that the

intense 140-mile-per-hour winds should be battering the central portions of grand bahama as a speak. but that hopefully will continue during the course of the night, and if that eyewall continues to move northward, we can see some letting up of the effects of that storm over grand bahama. but right now grand bahama is taking a beating. very strong winds, 140 miles per hour as i said. and a storm surge, it's a major, major factor today, and as a result, flooding has inundated that entire island. >> have you been in any communication with people on some of the worst-hit areas? what do we know about the destruction, the level of destruction, and also the toll on human life? >> communication has become very

few. connectivity is very sparingly. i spoke with one of my forecasters in freeport about six hours ago, and at that time they had to relocate from a ground floor to a second floor of the building that they are in simply because of saltwater that is now seeping in. and they lost also the electricity, and right now we are now unable, because i suspect that their phone batteries have all gone dead. >> okay. well, we'll pray for them. good luck. please keep us posted, and we hope this storm moves on very quickly. appreciate it, sir. >> it is certainly all of our prayers, and we wish all the best and hope that come sunrise tomorrow, the news is not as bdt as we anticipate. >> basil dean, appreciate you joining us here on cnn. now, as dorian sits over the bahamas, the next few hours is,

as we've been reporting, crucial in telling us where it will go next and hopefully move off the bahamas. derek van dam is in stuart, florida. just give us a sense of where you are and what people are expecting. >> reporter: well, we are about a kilometer off the coastline from the actual barrier island that's on the east coast of florida. we aren't experiencing anything like the nightmare, never-ending nightmare that is unfolding just 100 miles to our east in the island of grand bahama. but regardless of that, every 30 to 45 minutes, we are getting walloped by literally these outer rain bands from hurricane dorian. it is transporting its energy from the center of the storm, and it is bringing it to the coastline in the form of strong winds and heavy rainfall. it is still periodic, but it comes and it goes. and when it hits us, we know it very quickly. we heard ivan talk about some of the wind reports in stuart,

which is just about a half a kilometer away from where i'm located right now, and that location had a 38-mile-per-hour wind gust. so we're approaching that tropical storm force, and we expect that to continue as time goes on. now, we've seen the latest update from the national hurricane center. we know that this has weakened to a powerful category 3, still a very formidable, dangerous storm. but when these large hurricanes start to weaken, the wind field expands. this is significant because regardless of the track of the storm, it will stay offshore for the coast of florida. that's the likely scenario here that's going to play out. but we're still going to get that large area of tropical storm force that will bring impacts into the coastlie, especially along the barrier islands where we have mandatory evacuations taking place here. so this is really a game of miles. any deviation to the west, any deviation to the east means everything for these residents. they are hoping for that easterly turn to take place

quicker than it is right now at the moment. threats here, storm surge. we have the potential for flash flooding, maybe a spin-up tornado or two, and strong gusty winds that could take down electrical poles as well as trees here around us. robyn? >> it's still such a vulnerable coastline. thanks so much, derek van dam. so nick valencia is live this hour in melbourne, florida, and we're going to go straight to nick there. millions of people under these alerts, under evacuation orders. how prepared do you think the coastline is? >> reporter: i think there's a little bit of fatigue going on, robyn, because they started to prepare wednesday of last week for the possibility of a direct hit. you know, when this storm was first forecast, it was predicted to make a direct impact, direct landfall into central florida. the track changed, and i think a lot of people sort of breathed a collective sigh of relief and let their guard down. we can tell you what's going on right now. we've felt the strongest winds

that we've felt since we've been out here. we haven't felt a single drop of rain just yet, but we just felt a really strong wind gust here. that is only going to get worse throughout the morning hours. i mentioned the fatigue factor. what i'm seeing here is a lot businesses as early as yesterday hadn't really been taking the precautions or preparations. we saw limited sandbagging, limited plywood going up, no shutters deployed. that changed. just across the street from me, all the businesses here within eyesight have been boarded up. mandatory evacuations went into effect at 1:00 p.m. yesterday, but all the residents i spoke to, i was just across the causeway here. all the residents i spoke to said they were going to take their chances and stick it out. i know that sounds crazy to a lot of people seeing the storm system and seeing what's on its way to florida. we have to remind our viewers this is a state that has been through a lot worse before. you know, storms that have impacted this state, five major hurricanes in the last four years. since this storm is only

expected to grind up the coast, it is going to show some tropical storm winds here, but that serious impact that was expected last week is not going to happen. of course emergency management officials are still going in front of the cameras, holding press conferences, urging residents to take precautions and to listen. so far, though, a lot of people that we've spoken to say they're just going to take their chances and ride this storm out. rob robyn? >> thanks for that report. as millions of people along that southeastern coast brace for hurricane dorian's impact, president trump is back to work after a weekend of golfing and tweeting. his aides are reportedly keeping him briefed on the storm, but as kaitlan collins now reports, the president may need help keeping the facts straight. >> reporter: today the president teeing up at his golf course outside washington as hurricane dorian battered the bahamas and bore down on the u.s. critics reminding him of this promise he once made to supporters. >> i'm going to be working for you. i'm not going to have time to go

play golf. i'm not going to be playing much golf. >> reporter: he also spent the morning attacking the media and a prominent union leader on twitter while re-tweeting updates on the storm and the boat fire in california. as white house officials insist, he was briefed hourly on dorian's movements. >> the federal government stands ready to assist. >> reporter: after a weekend at camp david, the president returned to washington for a briefing at fema's headquarters, where he appeared baffled by the storm's intensity. >> i'm not sure that i've ever even heard of a category 5. i knew it existed. >> reporter: even though there have been four category 5 hurricanes since he's been in office. it's not the first time he's claimed surprise about the common term. he said the same thing after hurricane irma in 2017. >> i never even knew a category 5 existed. >> reporter: the national weather service also forced to correct the president after he claimed blalabama was in dorian path. >> so for alabama, just please be careful also.

>> reporter: the national weather service in birmingham, alabama, says that's not so, tweeting, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. the system will remain too far east. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. coming up here at cnn, a holiday boat trip turns into a nightmare. we'll update you on the search for dozens of passengers after flames engulf a diving boat. stay tuned for that. plus, what investigators are learning about the man who went on a shooting rampage in texas over the weekend. new details also coming up on that. when you a buy get a samsung galaxy note 10? you get unlimited data while on a network that goes further than ever before. use as much as you want. when you want. a netflix subscription on us. stream all your favorite movies and shows. and for a limited time. buy any samsung galaxy note 10 and get one samsung galaxy note 10 for free.

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dorian is still a deadly, dangerous storm. and for more than 24 hours, it's been sitting over the northern bahamas, pounding those islands and leaving desperate people wondering when the rain and the wind will ever stop. we know at least five people have been reported dead. and in the u.s., mandatory evacuations are under way in four states with the path of the storm still quite up in the air. we'll have more on that in just a few moments' time. but another story we're following here at cnn, it was supposed to be a fun overnight scuba diving trip off the california coast, but it turned into an utter nightmare when a dive boat caught fire, trapping dozens of passengers below the deck. so far eight people have been confirmed dead, 26 others still unaccounted for. and our nick watt now reports there are many, many questions about what went wrong. >> reporter: a mayday call just before 3:30 a.m. >> mayday, mayday, mayday!

conception, conception. >> reporter: 30 miles from the mainland just north of los angeles, first responders beaten back by the inferno. >> it keeps being extinguished and reflashing possibly due to the amount of fool onboard. unsure why. >> reporter: five crew members escaped. >> the crew was actually already awake and on the bridge and they jumped off. five people were evacuated aboard a good samaritan pleasure craft known as the grape escape. >> reporter: one brought ashore on a stretcher rushed to the hospital, one limping, an injured ankle. two shoeless and shocked. 32 others were belowdecks. we're told there are numerous fatalities. listen to the dispatcher on that mayday call asking questions. >> roger. are they locked inside the boat? roger. can you get back onboard and unlock the doors so they can get off? >> reporter: we cannot hear the answers, and the coast guard has said the boast was in compliance. >> we are combing the shoreline.

we have vessels, two vessels from coast guard station channel islands harbor. we have coast guard helicopter air crews, so we are throwing everything that we have nearby area to search for these missing 34 people. >> reporter: the boat sank in 64 feet of water just 20 yards from the shore of santa cruz island. the conception, a 75-foot dive boat seen here in video on a previous trip had left santa barbara saturday morning. the cause of that fire that destroyed her still unknown. the ntsb is en route, and the coast guard is working with the vessel's owner, but the priority right now, the fight with hope fading to find any more survivors. >> that was nick watt reporting there. as nick reported, five people were able to escape those flames and were rescued by a nearby boat. well, the owner of that boat says he doesn't feel like a hero. take a listen. >> i wish i could have picked all 35 of them up. i mean all of them. i've got the space. you know, if they could have all

just gotten in the water, i could have got them out of there. i don't feel like i deserve being called a hero. i was just a guy there in that place, and i would hope that anybody would do the same thing. >> hansen and his wife discovered the disaster after they were jarred awake by the sound of pounding noises on the side of their boat from the dive boat crew seeking help. we'll continue to monitor that story. meanwhile, new details are emerging about the man who went on a shooting spree in west texas on saturday. seven people were killed, more than two dozen injured. ryan young has the latest on what authorities are learning about the gunman and the calls he made before and during the shooting. >> reporter: robyn, this still remains very tough for this community. obviously heartbreaking as everyone tries to figure out exactly why this shooting happened. and some of the victims' names obviously are starting to be released now. we know the numbers have been updated to 25 injured, and of course 7 killed. but the fbi released new information about the 911 calls

that were happening during and before the shooting. apparently the shooter showed up to work. he seemed like he was in distress. once he was fired, he called 911. the employee called 911. but he left before police could arrive. while he was in that car, apparently he called the fbi tip line. when the state trooper got behind him while he was driving erratically, he had no idea that these phone calls were being made. the shooter reached into the back of his car, pulled out that ar-15 and started shooting through the back window. that trooper was injured but survived. during the next part of the shooting spree, he was still calling 911 to say that he was the shooter. that added a lot of confusion to this. in fact, listen to the fbi talk about this investigation. >> he showed up to work in a very distressed mental state. so it's not because he got fired, right? this did not happen because he was fired, which other active shooters have occurred. when he showed up to work, he was already enraged. >> reporter: we know the youngest murder victim in this was just 15 years old.

the oldest was 57. a lot of questions about this case, especially when it comes to background checks. apparently the shooter was denied buying a gun two times because he failed a background check. we're not sure why just yet, but we know he was still able to get that ar-15 style assault rifle. so many questions about that. the atf and the fbi are drilling down on that part of the investigation as we speak, and of course as we learn more information about that, we'll pass it on to you. robyn? >> thanks for that, ryan. well, hurricane dorian remains a living nightmare for those in the bahamas. we have the latest on this monster storm when we get back. you're watching cnn.

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welcome back to our viewers watching in the united states and around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow here at cnn's world news headquarters here in atlanta. it's certainly been a very, very busy few hours because we are watching this monster hurricane, dorian. it has been weakening over the past few hours. it's now a category 3 hurricane, but it really is still very dangerous. as you can see from this image from the international space station, it remains a very large, as i said, dangerous storm. it's been stalled. now, this is the problem, for more than a day over the northern bahamas. we know at least five deaths are reported. u.s. coast guard helicopters medevaced 19 people from abaco island, but bringing in emergency aid will have to wait until this hurricane passes. and mandatory evacuations are

under way in coastal communities from florida all the way to north carolina. florida's governor urged everyone to get out while they can. >> people need to remain vigilant. if you're ordered to evacuate, you need to do that from palm beach county all the way up to nassau, the florida-georgia border, all those coastal counties have issued evacuation orders. and it's important that residents heed those calls. you know, get out now while you have time, while there's fuel available, and you'll be safe on the roads. >> so far, grand bahama island has been getting the worst of dorian. cnn's patrick oppmann has been there and is in the resorttown of freeport. patrick? >> reporter: hurricane dorian showing its fury on the bahamas. the record setting storm striking, leaving behind catastrophic destruction. wind gusts spiking over 200 miles per hour, becoming the

most powerful storm to hit the islands. dorian shredding homes here and sending debris across neighborhoods. >> this is probably the most saddened and worst day of my life to address the bahamian people. we're facing a hurricane, hurricane dorian, like one that we've never seen in the history of bahamas. >> reporter: heavy rains creating blinding conditions. some towns submerged in floodwaters. dorian making landfall in the abaco islands on sunday, leaving utter devastation. >> pray for us. pray for abaco, please. i'm begging y'all. please pray for us. >> reporter: listen to a mother's desperate plea. bertha joseph waiting with other resident as long with her baby. their apartment building now roofless and surrounded by murky floodwaters rising around them. >> people trying to make it to

the other side where this white house is, but some people, the water just took them, and those are the only people that got to make it over there. some people didn't get to make it. >> reporter: those horrifying scenes were playing again and again across the bahamas. with the scale of destruction now coming to light, haunting images showing hurricane dorian's dangerous power as it now takes aim at the u.s. coastline. patrick oppmann, cnn, freeport, bahamas. >> thanks, patrick, for that. cnn is monitoring the hurricane minute by minute. nick valencia is in melbourne, florida, and ivan cabrera is tracking the storm from the cnn centers. let's begin with ivan. in the last half an hour or so, we have had new information. a little bit of good news. >> a little bit of good news. it is no longer a category 4, so there's that, right? we're down to a category 3. the problem is it's still stuck. it's still stationary. it's not moving at all, and so it's still pounding the same

very area we were talking about this time last night across grand bahama. dorian, cat 3, remains stalled over that same area, but we are expecting and anticipating that turn to the north to begin sometime on tuesday, and then it will parallel the coast along florida, which is not going to be a good thing either. but it is going to be better for grand bahama. i mean talk about a worst case scenario. this eye on top of the eastern flank of the island, it just bisected the island entirely. this is a small target and for a cat 5 eye to do that, it's quite remarkable. then for it to stall on top of them is quite something else. 125-mile-an-hour, 125 mph. it is gusting to 155. there it is, movement, zero, stationary, north of zero sometimes. but there is dorian. there are those outer rain bands. the tropical storm force winds extend out over 100 miles. we are easily well within that now in florida here. so as we've been checking in

with our reporters along the coast, including derek there in stuart, you you see those showers he's been talking about. each and every one of those kind of the bands coming in, the extreme outer bands of dorian. those contain tropical storm force wind gusts, and i think that will continue right into tonight and tomorrow. some of the buoys are picking up winds north of 40 miles an hour. there's our cat 3 hurricane. remember, category 3 is still a major hurricane. 111 starts that, and we're at 125. so this is not going to weaken significantly so that then we can say, florida, you're fine. you're not because, again, the water getting pushed in. and my main concern will be with this hurricane watch and warning from north to south will be the storm surge and the potential for that flooding that comes in as that water gets pushed along the shore. at times of high tide, that will make things worse. 125 thursday 8:00 p.m. eventually because of the way the coastline is shaped across the southeastern u.s., we are

looking for a potential landfall sometime on thursday and into friday as a result of that turn there. but it still has a chance for our good friends in the carolinas. there is still the chance it could go out to sea, but we have to prepare for landfall because some of the models are indicating that at least raking the carolinas with the potential of cat 2, cat 3 winds thursday into friday. it will be two weeks at that point we've been covering this thing. incredible. >> thanks so much. nick valencia is covering the hurricane in melbourne, florida. i want to see what it's like where you are right now. >> reporter: well, robyn, the wind is strengthening with every minute that ticks by. we've still yet to see any or feel any drops of rain, but that of course is going to change as the morning hours progress. it will really be -- the impact will really be felt here around this time tomorrow morning. i mention a lot of floridians here in and around the area have

been keeping a close eye on this track and there is starting to feel like there's some fatigue among the residents. they've been prepared for this storm as early as last wednesday. initially the storm was expected to hit last night, sunday night -- or rather sunday night into monday morning. the preparations are not as significant as you would think. yesterday when we were going around this community, we talked to a lot of residents who were under a mandatory evacuation warning but were planning on not evacuating at all. a lot of the conversations i had were people that said that they have been through worse storms before. when this track changed from going to making a direct hit through central florida to just grinding up the coast, i think a lot of people let their guard down. emergency management officials, they don't like the sound of that. they've been out front and center trying to reiterate people need to take precautions and telling people they should know these tracks can change at the last minute. even still, though, robyn, most of the conversations we've had with people are those that are going to wait this out and take their chances. right now as it stands, it is really just a waiting game.

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we continue to track hurricane dorian as it cuts a wheel of destruction across the bahamas. the storm has sat over the islands for more than 24 hours now, killing at least five people. dorian is slow-moving, downgraded now to a category 3, but millions of people are being ordered to evacuate in the u.s. it's feared the storm could move closer to florida over the coming hours. and another story we're watching here at cnn, hong kong's embattled chief executive says she never discuses the possibility of resigning with china's central government despite a leaked audio recording obtained by reuters that had her saying she would quit if she had the chance. well, cnn's anna coren joins us from hong kong with more on that. hi, anna. update us.

>> reporter: yeah, robyn. carrie lam, she attended a weekly press conference this morning that we were at, and she was hit with a barrage of questions following that leaked recording obtained exclusively by reuters that has her on tape saying that if she could quit, she would, if she had the choice. this conversation was had with businesspeople here in hong kong at a private luncheon last week. and first i want to play that audio clip to you. take a listen. >> if i had the choice, the first thing is to quit, having made a deep apology is to step down. so i -- i make a plea to you for your forgiveness. >> reporter: now, carrie lam was hit with a barrage of questions at that press conference this morning in relation to this audio clip, and she was quite dismissive of it. she said that she was shocked

that this recording was made and that it was leaked. this was a private conversation, but she just continued to say, robyn, that she has never considered resigning, and she has never tendered her resignation to beijing. this obviously left journalists in the room very frustrated, including myself. take a listen to this exchange. >> the simple and straight answer to your question is i have never tendered any resignation to the central people's government. so your answer does not arise. i have never tendered any resignation. >> reporter: i put the question to carrie lam, why won't china let you resign? you were there on tape saying that if you had a choice, you would quit. why won't china let you resign? and as you could see, she just avoided the question altogether. but in that leaked recording,

robyn, she said there is no short-term solution to these protests, which have know dragged into a third month. we've seen those violent clashes week after week between protesters and police. she said this is not going to be wrapped up by the 1st of october, which of course is the 70th anniversary of the formation of china, that national day of celebration, and that china, robyn, is playing the long game. >> yeah, it certainly is. anna coren, thanks so much. great reporting. appreciate it. in the uk, prime minister boris johnson has threatened to seek an early election to keep lawmakers in his own party from blocking a no-deal brexit. uk media says a snap election could come as early as october the 14th if so-called brexit rebels vote against the government in the coming hours. well, mr. johnson offered this message to the rebels and to the eu. >> there are no circumstances in which i will ask brussels to delay. we're leaving on the 31st of

october, no ifs or buts. we will not accept any attempt to go back on our promises or scrub that referendum. >> so as parliament reconvenes tuesday after the summer break and protesters gather on the streets of britain, lawmakers look set for an almighty battle over brexit in the coming weeks. bianca nobilo looks at how prime minister johnson got to this point. >> reporter: in the british parliament as on the streets, the battle lines have been drawn for what promises to be the fiercest clash yet in this long-running war over brexit, which has gripped the country for the last three years. prime minister boris johnson digging in on his position to leave the eu by the 31st of october, do or die. opposition parties not going down without a fight. coming together in a rare show of unity to launch a new bill

which would stop a no-deal brexit. >> if they do, they will plainly chop the legs out from under the uk position and make any further negotiation absolutely impossible. >> reporter: adding fuel to the fire, johnson announced he would suspend parliament early, reducing the time left for opposition lawmakers to act. a bold move labeled a constitutional outrage by his opponents with some saying this amounted to the demise of democracy. >> he's more interested in running into the arms of donald trump than actually looking after the interests of the ordinary people of this country. >> reporter: while many in britain have been enjoying a relaxing summer off, with heatwaves across the uk, the prime minister has been hard at work, positively skipping through his first diplomatic meetings abroad. but he not only got to rub shoulders with his staunch supporter, president trump -- >> he's going to be a fantastic prime minister. >> reporter: but also appeared to find personal chemistry with

his european counterparts. >> prime minister, are you hopeful of a deal? >> reporter: johnson says he still hopes to translate this bon amy into a revised brexit deal ahead of the october 31st deadline. >> the backstop is no good. it's dead. the withdrawal agreement is dead. it's got to go. but there is scope to do a new deal. >> reporter: but little sign of compromise from either side yet. johnson has also looked buoyant on the domestic front. still enjoying the so-called boris bounce, a lift in polls for his conservative party since he took the reins. that combined with the fact that the prime minister's working majority in parliament is down to a razor-thin margin means many still think an election could be on the cards in the near future. bianca nobilo, cnn, london. >> it's possible the u.s. may soon see the beginning of the end of its longest-running war. the u.s. envoy for afghanistan says it's reached an agreement

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hello, welcome to our viewers here this the united states. i'm rosemary church at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. hurricane dorian has been weakening slightly over the past several hours. it's now a category 3 but as you can see from this image from the international space station it remains a very large and very dangerous storm. it's been stalled for more than a day now over the northern bahamas, at least five deaths are reported there. a u.s. coast guard helicopter medevac'd 19