justify. it certainly seems like. thank you kaitlan collins. thanks very much to all of you for joining us. "ac 360" with anderson begins right now. good evening. the images and the stories coming out of the bahamas tonight are nothing short of steering. a man watches his wife drown and barely makeso going back and bao rels cue neighbors to rescue strangers knowing they could lose tnt not to try. tonight, we're seeing what hurricane dorian did to the islands where entire communities are covered in water and some have been oobliterated. hospitals and emergency facility there is and across the bahamas flooded. we're learning, too, conditions in freeport is worse than expected. patrick who joins us shortly saw it firsthand as ordinary citizens made trip after trip

into the flood waters risking their lives to save others. take a look. >> reporter: how many people are out there still? >> a few hundred. >> reporter: a few hundred? >> yeah. a lot of homes. >> reporter: it's tough to get out there and get them? >> it's tough. >> reporter: why do you keep doing it? >> until we get everybody. we're bo bohamians. >> conditions and casualties, first a new track for the hurricane, new word on where on the east coast could get hit the hardest and for that we turn to jennifer gray. where is it? what's the latest? >> anderson, as we move forward, the carolinas is where we need to focus on because that's where we could see a potential landfall as well as the biggest impacts moving forward. it is basically paralleling the coast of florida finally picked up some forward speed today so moving out of grand bahama island, their conditions will continue to improve, but it's

still a 110 mile per hour windstorm with gusts of 130 and the wind field is expanding and that's interesting because tropical force -- tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center so the storm is just sort of spreading out a little bit. you can see these rain bands pretty heavy on the rain on the west side of that storm and that's pushing all the rain bands, the rain, the wind into portions of florida and getting some very heavy rain right now. that's going to continue. we'll have the potential for flooding in florida, as well as very gusty winds. tropical storm forced winds. this is going to move up to the north and eventually bend back to the east and that's where it gets very interesting especially for the carolinas anderson. >> so do you expect it to continue picking up speed as it moves up the coast or is it going to kind of get slower? >> well, it is expected to pick up speed and that is good news for the carolinas. yes, we could possibly see a landfall there. it could be a category two but

what -- when you talk about faster speed, you're not talking about as long duration of the winds as well as the rain and so that's a best case scenario when you have a storm like this for it to get in and get out. so by friday afternoon, this storm will be off the coast of north carolina, but they will feel a lot of impacts from this. >> you talk about the carolinas, is there a particular city or area that we should particularly be looking at and people should be warned about? >> right, charleston is going to be a very vulnerable area in south carolina because of how low lying it is. any push of water that goes in can definitely flood charleston very easily if you're familiar with that area, you know what we're talking about and you will see those outer rain bands there tomorrow afternoon. and then when you talk about the forecast winds, we're going to still see very gusty winds across the carolinas, as well. north carolina we know that it's very vulnerable there with the outer banks and all that push of water in to the barrier islands

and a lot of beach erosion and things like that. we do have those hurricane watches up for north carolina, hurricane warnings even for south carolina and portions of north carolina, as well as florida. so florida still feeling the impacts but we do have to look forward and see where this is going to make maybe a bigger impact in days to come. we could see four to seven feet of storm surge across portions of south carolina and north carolina by thursday and friday. anderson, we've been talking about this storm for more than a week now and it's still not over and still could see some pretty big impacts in days ahead. >> jennifer gray, appreciate it. thanks very much. a moment ago we showed you a portion of what patrick saw. he joins us from free port in the bahamas. patrick, the lit knthings you s today and it's extraordinary the things you witnessed, talk about what the day has been like for the people there?

>> reporter: it has been a good day in the sense for the first time they were able to get in boats and jet skis. some of the boats not much bigger than row boats and go out and look for friends and family and strangers and try and rescue them. it's an all volunteer navy here. there is no organization. it is people who came out using their own gasoline, their own boats, risking their own lives to save others. one jet ski ride, one boat trip at a time, these bahama residents are saving the lives of their family, neighbors and complete strangers. they launch from a bridge that is now under water. theirs is a dangerous mission. hurricane forced winds are ranging. howard armstrong was rescued. his house was one of hundreds lost as storm surge from dorian

swallowed whole neighborhoods. armstrong's wife lynn didn't make it. >> came over the roof. i would imagine 21 feet at least. we were doing all right until the water kept coming up and all the appliances were going around the house like a washing machine. i probably got hit with something in bed and my poor little wife got hypothermia and standing on top of the kitchen cabinets until they disintegrated and i kept with her and she just drowned on me. >> reporter: i'm so sorry. [crying] >> i know. i know. >> reporter: how did you get out? >> i got out. i had a big boat anchored in there. i'm a crab fisherman and i have a 40-footer which stayed there so i didn't even think it was there, so i had got out of the house after my wife drowned and

because you couldn't be in there anymore and i had no tools to chomp a hole in the roof, in the ceiling so i saw my boat was still there and i swam. i took a chance and swam out to it. >> reporter: there is no power on grand bahama island, no running water, sporadic cell service. maybe the last thing working is this all-volunteer crew of boaters risking their lives to save lives. dorian fights them every trip they make. people coming with what they have, the jets skis. they are dealing with horrible weather conditions. it's not safe to be on a boat or out here at all. they know there are people out there. out there winds flip a jet key. daniel says there isn't much time left. >> exhausted. some we had to carry. some couldn't make it. some he put on the jet ski, turned the whole jet ski over because they couldn't hold they

weight up. first one we found was my brother clinging to a tree and he made out safe but we were unable to locate his wife at the moment. we hope she's okay but the rescue goes on and on. we have a lot of people supporting us. everybody working as a team here, you know. it's very hard but we shall overcome. >> reporter: how are you doing? you made it. dozens have been rescued but many more remain in desperation as they spend the third night waiting for salvation. >> patrick, that is incredible -- >> reporter: anderson, go ahead -- >> yeah, i mean, it's just incredible, first of all -- >> reporter: incredible. >> civilians doing this, helping one another and that man, howard armstrong, i'm not even sure he -- i mean, the -- i cannot believe he saw his wife drawn in front of her, in front of him. >> reporter: he refuses to leave until her body is recovered.

he refuses to leave that site until her body is recovered. of course, rescuers say they have to prioritize the living and there are hundreds of people out there spending the night without food or water or electricity and probably losing hope at this point. one final, one first good piece of news we seen since this storm began is just a little while ago, we saw what looked like a coast guard helicopter fly over the island. you can only hope that the skies have cleared enough now they can begin tomorrow, rescues and have their work cut out for them. there are people with not much time left. >> just in the moment you came upon, the man talking about rescuing his brother and his wife they can't find, and that man saw his wife drawn. there is no concern what is so horrifying about this is we're just getting glimpses of this. thank goodness you and your team and others are there to show it,

to show the world what is going on but we're only getting glimpses of the horror of what is happening at this stage. >> reporter: howard armstrong said when his wife died and he knew he didn't have much time left either, he left his wife behind and swam underneath the debris down to his front door. he swam out of the front door. he's got bruises all over his body from things he collided into in the dark. he swam up and the first thing he did is not try to save himself but swam to his neighbor's house. a woman calling to him and he and his wife said they would come get her. he saw her dead body. he knew there was nothing left for him to do. he was able to final the boat. he's a man in shock who has nothing but the clothes on his back. >> like when he said to you that his wife drowned in front of him, it was almost like realizing it for the first time.

it's extraordinary what is happening and horrific. appreciate you and your team working around the clock. when we spoke with chef jose andres, they were gearing up to do what they have done in so many other recent disasters and we talk about an organization. this is jose and this is volunteers and some hard-working staff people who had been learning storm after storm disaster after disaster refirst m -- we first met up with them in harvey and san juan and puerto rico and traveled with them across the island where they fed hundreds of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of meals on a chain of islands with limited access in and out of the middle of such a powerful storm. jose, today was able to get to the islands, today all the preparation dedication, they are being put to the test where chef andres returned from moments

ago. i spoke to him by phone. jose, you just helicoptered out of abaco. what did it look like? >> well, you know, the very beginning as you come into the island is very destructive. it doesn't look like the trees are upset by the hurricane at all and some very nice homes that also those homes for some reason untouched. the moment you're five, ten minutes over the island at the very beginning you'll find the national forest of abaco is one moment there you see the total destruction of the forest or the palm trees or trees broken and saying yes, you see every single home, the roofs gone. we were able to land in a heleport in a hotel resort and they were waiting for us. they had the heleport clean and we were able to drop there 2,000

sandwiches and over 1,000 pieces of oranges and it was great because we were able to do it and i left there one of my team members sam to have enough time to do work and start distribute sandwiches and learn where will we do work in the first kitchen. >> how does the next step take place? when you see the images from the air which we're showing now, it looks like street after street of rubble, you see some -- a lot of water on the ground. you see houses that have simply disappeared. where do you begin when you go on the ground, what do you actually then do tomorrow? >> i have been able to move over the island because i had a very short window to arrive with the helicopter and actually was going to stay but then what happens is as we were unloading and moving away the sandwiches, another helicopter arrived and i got the phone call that may be

better for me to plan and a lot of helicopters some people out of the island. the next steps is which of the hotels, which of the buildings, the structures in this case for us and to do our first kitchen there. it's going to be the most important think for us. we're describing what we're seeing is every single roof, many of the homes. next to a marina, the heliport, i saw almost 20 big boats that they were out in the street or on top of homes every single ship on the marina, the water and flew away and some were 50, 60 meters on land. >> 17,000 to 20,000 people that live on those islands.

you were able to bring 2,000 sandwiches, to get that amount of food in already, do you have a sense of what the needs are at this point? >> yeah, we feel very much even many people, some people on the island, they have homes they have not been so damaged, i'm guessing at the very least, we'll be trying to be bringing between five and 7,000 tomorrow. we only brought 2,000 because that's the maximum capacity we could bring on the helicopter. we're going to be using but that's why i believe it will be important to start doing a kitchen right there and i'm guessing my number right now, we'll go for 10,000 meals. if we have to go higher, we will. the most important is not to cook but true distribution, the true system. i already heard that some people are getting very nervous because the rumor is the main two-foot

sh -- two food shops on the island were destroyed and gone. people are getting a little nervous, rightfully so. that's why it's important to start bringing that piece of mind on the people. >> you said, you know, you've seen a lot of helicopters moving back and forth. do you see a lot of people on the ground out from outside groups like yours, is there already starting to be a presence of rescue personnel? i know the coast guard has been doing some operations. >> the only coast guard i saw today was the plane that took the prime minister, the head of the american authority, ambassador there and probably he was trying to do, use a flyover to see the situation in grand

bahama but already seen a lot of videos of the u.s. coast guard doing a lot of work bringing injured people to the main hospital here also. it's been a lot of movement in private helicopters i guess people that if they have the possibility and the means, some of those helicopters have been removing also injured people. i heard from some pilots as i landed that there will be a lot of people broken arm or broken leg and things like that and people that have the means and the possibilities using every resource we can and used to use those helicopters to leave the island. >> jose, it's amazing that you've already been able to make 2,000 sandwiches and drop them off today and i know you're feeding elsewhere, as well. so jose, thanks for the update. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> incredible work. much more ahead on the storm

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48 hours. >> listen, really appreciate it. we had so many persons out there as a community trying our best to help persons in low lying areas, areas in grand bahama over the bridge. we have persons locked in their houses. we had people sleeping in there for two days and couldn't get out, and needed to be rescued. we have seen it's really heartbreaking but to know we've come together we've been working together to ensure that perso s persons -- >> what is the food and water situation there now? i mean, is there anything for

people to eat and drink? is anything being handed out? i know there was a shelter and i think the night you were there went from 25 people to several hundred people in a matter of hours. >> we went from 25 persons to about 400 persons in less than two hours. >> wow. >> that was persons who just try walking on foot, trying to get to some shelter, and yeah, we do have a situation because a lot of the persons that came out abandon their homes and they no food in their hand and no water and so forth and because the shelters didn't have the food and water to accommodate that. now we have a problem i think i've been telling people all day in another two days or so it will be a great problem if we don't get help. i understand that the prime minister and members of fema are on the way. they were just waiting for the all clear to get in here to get

things done. we're looking forward to that. >> you've been through storms on the island before. i think there was hurricane francis, if i remember. does anything compare to what you are seeing now? >> this is the worst experience i have ever had in a hurricane and i've had about five of them probably and i've never seen it like this. i've never seen it like this, you look at what -- sorry, i'm getting choked up. when you look and see what was happening and you look at people's lives, the loss of lives, you know, that is something that's, you know, i can't get over that and so this is something that really and truly we will never ever forget as a community ever forget. we appreciate you for you letting the world know what is happening here, man. appreciate that. >> kevin, appreciate all you're doing. some of the -- so many people reaching out, so many people on

jet skis trying to save neighbors. just extraordinary. we'll check in with you again. thank you very much and thank you for the work you're doing. of the tremendous impact this w- storm has had and will have and we're talking about for years to come. late this evening, i spoke with joy who is the director general for the bahamas ministry of tourism. we're showing the picture of abaco. you can't tell where sea and land is. water covers so much of it and it's hard to even see houses standing. you can see some rooftops but the destruction is really, it is shocking. >> if i can put it in context as we speak about abaco specifically in the first instance, abaco was a very

developed city. the capital of very developed city. and so there are reports going out that perhaps it was not, that is not the case at all. it was the in terms of tourists, visitor arrivals, the second largest i land in term est isl visitors. really developed. really beautiful. when you see that level of devastation, it is heartbreaking. >> i believe you have some staff missing in the islands that are hit hardest, is that right? >> that's correct. so if i speak about abaco specifically, we are now to the point of just deep, deep concern for three staff members we've not had any contact from them. we're reaching out using every channel possible so if by any miracle, they are hearing this, their families want to know and we want to know. >> and just in terms of hospital

facilities, are there enough hospital facilities, are you seeing, you know, are there many wounded people at this point? do you have any sense of an accurate death toll at this point? >> so we're only obviously able to confirm the five official deaths. we do believe that that number will increase. we know that there are many injured and the injured have the and are in the process of being brought to the capital to nassau for hospital treatment. grand bahama our second largest hospital in the commonwealth of the bahamas absolutely devastated under water it's totally compromised. >> in fact, we're looking at pictures of the hospital in freeport and looks like there is water up to people's ankles

inside the hospital. >> it's worse than that. it's the worst possible conditions. so everyone had to be removed. i think this is why this is such a humanitarian issue at this stage because when a main hospital is no longer operable or usable and you know that there are people who are critically ill, seriously ill when debris was flying they acted as projectile so we know there are injuries and trying to move them through nassau or another island where there is a clinic or a hospital and getting the right care and attention for those people is a priority. >> yeah, i mean, even things people don't consider of people needing dialysis or regular access to medication, medication that needs to be refrigerated, insul insulin. these are the day two and day three and day four and week one and two and three disasters that

are the follow on effects. >> you are so right. you know, someone asked me today what do they need? do the people need? they said every single thing you can imagine. that includes the most basic utensils, basic human needs but when you start looking at the requirement for medicine, we just heard a plea, someone in a diabetic coma and they were pleading with people to see if they could rescue that person. so that's the level of, you know, it's just actually it's december stressi distressing. i don't know how to articulate it in any other way. >> so great talking to you and sorry for what you and everyone is going through and i hope help is on the way and more in the coming hours and days. thank you for talking to us. >> anderson, thank you and thank you to the people of the world.

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more breaking news on hurricane dorian and sadly breaking news on the storm, sadly you do not know the official death toll. the forecast track of the storm gained forward and northward moe m -- momentum. approximatelies are in t randi kaye is north of palm beach along the shore. what is it like, randy? >> it's been a steady rain here, anderson pretty much all day since we got here at times, we were getting pounded by the rain, the winds were really heavy. in a slight low right now but we know not to let our guard down of course and so did the folks in this area. the wind was so heavy at times and forceful we could barely

open the car door to get out of the car. but we're at the fort pierce inland, this is the entry way into the ocean from here. behind me step out of the way so you can see it, that's a sailboat and we found that out here hours ago. it still hasn't moved. we were concerned it would be pushed from the wind on to more of the land but it's in the water there at the inlet. it was likely more, you know, out in the inlet where we found some other boats and it was either pushed by the heavy rains and winds to this area it's sort of stuck on its side there. hasn't moved much since we got here. so that is good news but that's exactly why they say even though hurricane dorian didn't make landfall here in florida, you still have to be concerned about those hurricane forced winds that are edging dangerously close to florida that we've been experiencing along with tropical storm forced winds throughout the day here in fort pierce area. >> are evacuation orders still in place for the barrier islands? >> reporter: for some it seems

as though where we were last night, that barrier island has been lifted. palm beach county evacuations have been lifted here in fort pierce and st. lucie county, we got an alert to do the live shot with you that that evacuation mandatory evacuation will be lifted at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. as we were coming in, there were police officers everywhere, the town is boarded up. the gas stations are still closed. so it's going to take time to sort of turn that over and turn that around even after the evacuation orders are lifted. >> randi, thank you. i want to go with miguel marquez in florida. as randy mentioned, the rains and winds are ramping up and calming down. how is it where you are? >> reporter: yeah, much the same here. evacuation orders are lifted much earlier today and interestingly as they were lifted, we've seen some of the roughest weather throughout the day, both the winds and the rain coming down. the rain coming down quite hard now. the winds picking up at times but that storm is still 100

miles off the coast here and moving north. as it moves north, there are evacuation orders going into effect further north. the uncertainty of this storm is what really has people sort of unsure as to whether to come back, when to open their businesses and how to deal with it. the reality of what's playing out in the bahamas is not lost on people here, as well. i mean, for all the people who came out here today to see this storm and see what was going on, the bahamas were very much on their minds what is happening there and to realize how they were spared direct hit by this storm and how bad things really could have been here and now other places farther north from here in the carolinas and georgia all of them now waiting to see what exactly this storm does, anderson? >> obviously where a lot of focus on the carolinas jennifer gray in the weather center was saying that. that's where we should be watching the next day or so. appreciate it. coming up, we'll talk to the

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as we mentioned the track for dorian could hit as early as thursday afternoon. 244,000 people have already evacuated the coastal areas in

and around there. john is charleston's mayor and he joins me now. mayor, thanks for being with us. you say the hurricane poses a triple threat for charleston. can you just explain what that means? >> well, we're the lowcountry, the low lying area and when you have that combination anderson of heavy rains and high tides and storm surge, it brings extra water right into our city so that's our real threat and our real concern at this point and i'm going to share with you the charleston is such a beautiful and hospitable city that it's really contrary to our culture to be asking people to leave town but if you live in a low-lying area, we're asking you, there is still time to get out. >> also such a beautiful town. it's a hard town to leave. i know. what are those in your community doing to prepare for the storm? i assume people have been

boarding up, things like that if they are staying. >> absolutely. they have been batting down the hatches as the city has with its own buildings but we've also been sandbagging. we distributed almost 75,000 sandbags in just the last two days. >> wow. >> we've been checking pumps and adding pumps and barricading and getting ready to actually close down streets where we know flooding will occur because this may sound funny, anderson, but there will be water in the streets and if somebody is riding down the street, it will form a wake and so we want to prevent that as much as we can. >> obviously, when you see the pictures from bat ha hamas, it concern and watch epratchets it. you've been through irma, you say if people's homes flooded, they should absolutely evacuate for this storm, is that right? >> absolutely.

and the devastation in the bahamas is just heartbreaking, isn't it? it's just terrible. i wanted this storm to pass and see what we can do to help those folks down there. charleston has impacts from a storm for five years in a row so we have become rehearsed, if you will, at getting ready for the storm and then also when it passes of recovery and getting back to business. >> so your message to the people of charleston tonight is there is still time to get out particularly if you are in an area that's flooded or your home is flooded in the past? >> absolutely. the lane reversal of i-26 is still active. the weather is actually nice until the storm gets here late tomorrow or tomorrow evening. there is still time to get out if you want to. if not, though, please get boarded up and hunk eered down d

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and things never get better and it's always good to be surprised about that. so, you know, we're going to have to wait and see and the story of this storm is far from over. we'll talk to some people who have some particularly harrowing tales to tell as evidence of what so many on that island are going to deal with. we'll be talking about your coverage and then i'm going to bring in rick sanitarium because we have natural disasters and man made disasters and the idea of what would have made a difference in this particular shooting in texas. there is a solution and a change we can make. we're going to debate that with the good senator tonight. >> what you said is so important to keep in mind, as bad as the images are that we're seeing, we're only seeing snapshots of it and those snapshots, we're

hearing about people, a man -- talked to guy who's wife drowned in front of him in their home. i'm not sure if that's included in the newest death toll which is now seven. let's hope those rescues continue. we'll check in with you in about eight minutes. quick note, tomorrow you join cnn and ten presidential hopefuls, chris is going to be there, and ten presidential hopefuls for an unprecedented democratic presidential town hall event on the climate crisis, joe biden, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, all ten candidates taking the stage on one night with their plans of how to address this critical issues. that's tomorrow starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern. i'll be on from 8:00 to 9:00. still to come tonight, the latest on the dive boat fire in southern california. we have new details on some of

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were on a fishing trip and you woke up to the sound of someone beating on the side of your boat. >> yeah, that's correct. it was about 3:30 in the morning. we heard someone beating on the side of the boat. i got up and as i went to the door and got out and opened the door and there were five guys in a rubber dinghy at the transom and they were calling for help and i looked out just beyond him and here's a boat that was totally engulfed in fire at the time. >> how far away was the boat that was on fire from you? >> maybe about 400 yards. it wasn't terribly far. >> how were they, the people you were rescuing? what were they -- >> they were pretty distraught. several of them were crying. one of the crewman had a broken leg. he was in a lot of pain.

and another crewman, he had a twisted ankle and then we brought the rest of them on board. they were all wet. mostly in their underwear or, you know -- like they had just jumped out of bed and over the side. then so we got towels to dry them all down. i went upstairs with the captain at the time and we hailed a coast guard and gave them our position. when i first saw the boat, it was totally engulfed in flames from the bow to the stern and maybe 30 feet high. i was totally helpless. there was nothing i could do. >> that feeling of helplessness, you did all you could, but to have to, you know, just stay there and watch this thing burn, i can't imagine what that's like. >> you're totally helpless. things go through your mind, it's like, had i known sooner,

you know, or they had gotten off, i could have picked them a all up. >> i appreciate what you did. nice talking to you. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> welcome to "prime time." reports from the ground in the bahamas, just heartbreaking. the need is going to be so great for so long because of dorian. this is the most powerful storm to ever hit there. we have new pivctures to show yu and we're going to take you live to a survivor who escaped his home with only the clothes on his back. we have another person who's begging for word about family. plus we have a government official on the rescue efforts under way and what their expectations are. the question now is, where will dorian go next