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breaking news. hi. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. thanks so much for joining us. i'm robyn curnow. so at this hour we are following two big stories in the uk, a major blow to the prime minister boris johnson after a rebel alliance of lawmakers seize control of parliament. but we also begin with the very latest on the destructive path of hurricane dorian. for almost two days now, hurricane dorian smothered the bahamas. we heard reports of utter devastation. well, now we get to see the destruction. parts of the island are in ruins. as you can see from these aerial images, many, many areas underwater, homes ripped apart, communities gutted. flooding is a threat to rescue efforts as well and the rescuers themselves, in fact. every day people are using boats and jet skis, putting their lives at risk to save others. at the moment, the storm killed at least seven people, but the prime minister expects that to

rise, and he's called dorian a historic tragedy. >> we are in the midst of one of the greatest national crises in our country's history. the government will bring to bear every resource of state possible to help the people of abaco and grand bahama or any other island nation that's necessary. >> well, as the bahamas struggle, dorian is rolling on. the hurricane has gotten weaker over the past 24 hours, but it's not a weak storm. it's now category 2, picking up speed as it skirts the u.s. florida is seeing fierce, fierce winds and rain along with storm surge and flooding. coastal georgia is also bracing. dorian is not expected to make landfall there, but it certainly could threaten the carolinas later on this week. well, cnn is covering this

hurricane from all angles. patrick oppmann is in the devastated town of freeport, bahamas. and derek van dam is in jensen beach, florida, along the state's east coast. first i want to hear from pedram javaheri on the storm's path. pedram, hi. just talk us through what's happening right now. >> robyn, it's still a menacing storm system. as you said, it is a category 2, 110 miles per hour at this hour with the storm system. notice the eye, the symmetry, that organization that was in place the last couple of days really becoming ragged. at least we're losing some symmetry with the storm system. but unfortunately it has what it takes to maintain at least a category 2 status inside the next one to maybe two days here as it approaches to the north and potentially areas around the carolinas. and the storm itself, when you kind of look at the scope or the size of it, it has really broadened up. a week ago it was smaller in size than areas around, say, puerto rico. now you put it in place to a state the size of alaska, the storm spans some 500 miles from

west to east when you measure the cloud field, which encompasses nearly the entire state of alaska. so it is an incredibly large storm system now, which means an incredibly large cloud field and also tropical storm-force winds that move away from the center. now, the eyewall of the storm sits about 60 miles away from, say, cape canaveral, so it really gives you an idea of how close this storm is to making landfall across this region of the east coast of florida. the eye itself spans from 50 miles across as well. but notice this. when you kind of bring this storm system in and look at the size of it, the magnitude of it, 110 miles per hour, just one-mile-per-hour per hour shy of being a major heurricane agan or a category 3 system. really important to note that a threshold of category 2 to category 3, this system sits there right in line with a category 3. of course we do know hurricane watches and hurricane warnings have been issued all across portions of the southeastern coastline. and here's the track moving forward inside the next 24 or so

hours. we expect the north-mostly track at least the next 24 hours. the storm tries to pull away from the carolinas. once you get to the borders of north and south carolina, that's when we think landfall is going to be a possibility, sometime as early as tomorrow night, but as late potentially as tomorrow afternoon across portions of wilmington, maybe into the hatteras region. the models have wanted to shift the track a little farther toward the east, but it looks almost certain that portions of the carolinas will begin to deal with this more directly. storm surge potential is among the highest there right across the carolinas. as much as four to seven feet going in towards tomorrow night and thursday morning in that region, robyn. >> thanks so much, pedram. appreciate that. cnn's patrick oppmann and his crew have been riding out the storm in freeport, bahamas. s that one of the areas hardest hit by dorian.

they managed to get out and about for a look at the shocking devastation, and they watched as ordinary citizens banded together to try to rescue survivors. here's patrick's report. >> reporter: we were walking out to a staging area where they're bringing people in from the communities out here that have been flooded, sometimes one at a time. you can see there are still hurricane-force winds and rain coming down on us, and yet these people are going out and pulling people from their houses, from on top of their houses, and saving their lives. there's a little baby here, a boy there, they're covering up and protecting. come through, come through. good job. they're going on jet skis because sometimes the boats -- ma'am, how are you doing? you made it. you're safe. >> yes. >> how high did the water get? >> up to the first floor. >> you're safe now.

>> yes. >> reporter: as she was saying, the water was up to the first floor of her house. many people here have told us that the water came in so quickly into this neighborhood, you would not be able to tell from what you're looking at here, but there are hundreds of houses back there, and the only way to get the people from the houses is from small boats and jet skis. what's going on? >> yeah, we're trying to do the rescue here in freeport after the hurricane. >> how many people are out there still? >> a few hundred. >> a few hundred? >> yeah. a lot of homes are over here. >> it's tough to get out there and get them. >> it's tough. >> how long are you going to keep doing it? >> until we get everybody. we're bahamians. we're not going to stop until we get everybody in. >> this is all volunteer. people are coming. they're bringing their jet skis. they're bringing their boats. they're going to get their neighbors, they say. everyone says they know of people. they say it's very hard to navigate because there are of

course no more streets. and yet they are doing it. you don't see anybody from the government here. it is all very ad hoc, people coming with what they have, the jet skis they have. they are dealing with horrible weather conditions. it's not safe to be out on a boat right now. it's not safe to be out here at all, and yet they say they know there are people out there. there are people who have lost their lives out there, we are told. they brought back at least one body. and they say they will not stop until they get everybody. they have hours, if not days of work ahead of them. >> joining us now from nassau in the bahamas is jill molehead. she's the regional team leader for the americas at mercy corps. jill, thank you for joining us. you're there in the bahamas. you've flown in today. you're part of the first wave of help. what is the main thing that needs to be done now? >> hey, robyn. thanks so much for having us first of all. i think the main thing right now

is collecting information. there are a lot of questions about the impact, the emergent needs and that, and there's a team going out to abaco island tomorrow to start looking at some of those things. so i think right now it's collecting information and getting ready to ramp up to provide people with urgent needs. >> we're seeing from drone footage, from helicopter footage, that it looks devastating, apocalyptic on some levels. how do you assess that damage, but more importantly, at the same time, don't you need to be getting help to a lot of people who survived? >> yeah. it's actually a very well coordinated response. right now they're in the search and rescue effort still, trying to get people who have been stranded to safety, doing some medical evacuations and that kind of thing. but, yeah, i think it's tied for the second strongest atlantic basin hurricane ever. it's destroyed like 13,000 homes. it's contaminated water sources. so it's a really serious impact,

devastating like you said. in some places, my understanding is that abaco island received the brunt of it even though it stayed longer on grand bahama. there was a little bit stronger infrastructure there. so there's, like i said, there's a team going out there tomorrow to start to look at that, and some of it is just talking to people to understand basic needs, what services are being provided locally, where the major gaps are, and what is most, most urgent because there's clearly going to be a lot of needs. so it's really a prioritizing what needs to happen first, second, third. >> and in your experience, what is the main thing that people are going to be needing? >> right now what we're talking about is food and drinking water and shelter. those are the three main things. the electrical infrastructure has been really damaged, so mercy corps is bringing in solar lanterns with usb chargers. that way people can have some light at night, and they can also charge their cell phones so they can stay in contact with

loved ones, emergency authorities. so, yeah, i mean those are some of the initial, initial needs. >> there's also the exhaustion that people must be feeling, those who survived. they've made it through the past few days, but i think the sense of either losing hope or just the utter exhaustion of trying to hold on, does that play into rescue efforts? >> yeah. i mean after hurricane maria in puerto rico especially we saw that. it was a long delay to get out to some of the places that are cut off. and there at least it was mainly on the main island. here we're talking about a lot of different islands. it makes access a huge issue. abaco is a low-lying island, so the main road on both islands has been washed out in some places. that makes access difficult. yeah, people are exhausted. they really need support, and from i've seen here, the efforts are being really well coordinated trying to get help to those people as soon as possible. >> each of these massive weather

events that we've experienced in the past few years are different, unique, different locations, different types of storms. can you compare this, the devastation that you're expecting, that we're seeing -- can you compare it to anything else that we've seen recently in living memory? >> yeah. i mean it was worse, right, because this was a category 5. so the wind speeds were very, very high. but i think as far as the flooding, a lot of that is looking like hurricane florence in north carolina or hurricane harvey in houston. some of the wind damage similar to that of puerto rico. i visited some towns with wooden structures in puerto rico that were just flattened by the wind damage there, and a lot of what we're seeing in the pictures and videos coming out of the bahamas looks very similar to that. and so i think it's going to be a long recovery effort. >> okay. jill morehead, good luck. thanks to your team, and keep us posted on any developments and any information on how people

can help. it is only day two of work for british m.p.s after the summer holidays but parliament has already seen an epic, epic showdown as britain's deadline to leave the eu draws nearer. a rebel alliance of lawmakers rose up against the uk prime minister and moved to put a stop to a no-deal brexit. boris johnson then sacked 21 members of his own party that had backed the measure and made good on his threat to seek a general election. take a listen. >> the leader of the opposition has been begging for an election for two years. he has crowds of supporters outside calling for an election. i don't want an election, but if mps vote tomorrow to stop negotiations and to compel another pointless delay to brexit potentially for years, then that would be the only way to resolve this, and i can confirm that we are tonight tabling a motion under the fixed term parliament.

>> cnn's european affairs commentator dominick thomas joins us now from berlin. wow, so it's again going down to the wire. more chaos. sometimes it all reminds me of monty python, but it is quintessentially english, uncharted territory. but the next few hours are critical, aren't they, in westminster? >> reporter: they are, and i think that the only positive thing one can take at this right now, we've really reached a breaking point, perhaps even a new breaking point. but i think that having boris johnson at the helm and his group, his cabinet of brexiteers after these three years when he allowed the transition and prime minister may to be there, is they're starting to understand while being in the hot seat, what it is really like to deal with this particular issue. and i think that what we have been witnessing in parliament for the last few hours is essentially a fight to the death on the question of brexit with boris johnson's party

desperately trying to appeal to nigel farage and to the brexit party without whom they cannot win a general election. and on the other side of the political spectrum, the opposition coming together not so much for something or a particular definition of brexit, but against a no deal. and it seems that as things stand right now, they've succeeded at least in achieving that. >> i mean it's interesting to see how this has all played out. obviously this started a week ago when boris johnson got the queen to delay parliament. is this a gamble, and i'm assuming -- you would hope that he's gamed out scenarios, or do you think he's been outplayed here, or is this part of some grand plan? >> reporter: well, you'd have to think that we would certainly know and understand that as the parliament currently sits, there is absolutely no appetite for no deal. so they have ultimately known that this was going to come at some particular point. so really the position for boris

johnson is that he knows that a general election is going to be inevitable, and his sole role is to convince the electorate that his party unambiguously stands for brexit. and that means convincing the brexit party, nigel farage, that he is going to do this and get them out of the european union. the big question, though, that remains is now that no deal has been removed, has been taken off the table, is whether this is going to be enough or whether this has weakened him in the eyes of those who are desperately seeking a brexit. and then whether or not the opposition's simple sort of gathering around this no deal is going to be enough for them or whether we're also going to see a weakness on the part of the opposition because let's not forget that the labor party is not unambiguously committed to leaving the european union. and so this is where we see this kind of tension, and we know that if any kind of deal is going to be made, it's going to have to be made at the center, which will alienate the far right brexiteers while at the

same time their vision of brexit is, of course, not acceptable to the liberal democrats or to the labor opposition. so it's a very complicated situation. >> an election's not going to provide an answer or a solution necessarily, and look what happened when mrs. may called her election. that was not -- you know, in terms of creating strength, i mean that in many ways weakened the whole process as well. broadly, i want to talk bigger picture here. as we look at these daily twists and turns, this daily drama, each day seems to bring us a step closer to more unknowns. one big concern or opportunity, i suppose, if you're a scottish nationalist, is that each crisis is bringing us closer to the breakup of the united kingdom. how much harder is it going to become to keep the uk together? >> reporter: well, this is really the major issue around all of these kinds of questions is we know that even going back three years ago to the initial

referendum, that both scotland and ireland did not vote to leave the european union. and we see both sides of the spectrum here. on the one hand, the greater possibility of a united island precisely because of the question of the backstop and the customs union and so on, and the more this goes down the road, the more we see the argument for scottish secession gaining traction yet again. so the irony of this, of course, that this great narrative of the uk leaving the european union and becoming this kind of major global power is, in fact, not only potentially weakened by leaving the european union, but also potentially weakened by being completely fractured into these different nation states that have very different views as to how they see the future of this island -- or these islands. and this is of course one of the other major aspects of this that will be one of the unanticipated

consequences of this whole brexit saga. >> and i think that's what's key here. european affairs commentator dominick thomas, thanks so much for bringing us your perspective. some important points there. thank you. okay. so parts of the bahamas, we know, are just wiped out. and now hurricane dorian is threatening the u.s. we're live in florida as the storm passes by. that's ahead. plus no criticism goes unanswered. the u.s. president fires back over a shot taken at his weekend golf game. are we supposed to dance? ♪ boy bands without dancing are just ok. get a better than just ok unlimited plan with spotify premium included on america's best network. only from at&t more for your thing. that's our thing.

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now. here was his first impression of the damage. >> i've done this for a long time. i kind of had a pretty good idea. complete devastation. i'm not going to stayrom top to bottom because the southern half of some areas, they're okay. but once you get about midway up, from that point north, it's just complete destruction. even the well-built homes and newer construction with 150-mile-an-hour building codes didn't fare well. some had slight damage. many had complete roofs missing and significant damage. >> and hurricane dorian's path of destruction isn't over yet as you can see from these images here. it's now moving along the east coast of florida though the storm remains offshore. forecasters predict dorian could

make landfall in south carolina a little bit later on this week. but let's head to jensen beach, florida, and derek van dam. derek is standing by now. hi. this storm has also been, as we've watched what's happening, it's moving slowly toward you. it's certainly been a logistical headache, hasn't it been for residents, officials? let's talk about the evacuations where you are. >> reporter: well, the evacuations have been lifted for martin county where i'm located, but the county just to my north, st. lucie county, they're still valid until 6:00 a.m. the conditions we've experienced today, robyn, have been a mixture. we've seen the extremely heavy downpours and some of the outer rain bands from hurricane dorian. we've had tropical storm force winds stained for a period. still very gusty right now. we've also experienced some of the storm surge. earlier today we had to do a little reconnaissance to check out this live location to make sure this is where we needed to be. the waves were choppy. the sea was getting pushed up. i'm on the intercoastal waterway so just directly behind me over my shoulders is the barrier

island. then all of hurricane dorian's fury is just sitting offshore in the atlantic ocean, still situated about 80 miles offshore with the center of the storm. but i just want to reference something to give you a little perspective of what we've seen. just in the past hour since we've been here, we've seen a little bit of storm surge push up. again, this is the intercoastal waterway, so it's a mixture of fresh and ocean water. but the point is that this has actually started to rise and that's very consistent with the forecast that we expected on the backside of the storm. we see the retreating hurricane as it scrapes along the northeast coastline of florida. we're not expecting to make a landfall. but with the storm surge and retreating hurricane, this is exactly what we would anticipate to see. now all of our attention is focused on the central portions of the florida coast into georgia and then the carolinas. this storm continues to slowly, slowly creep up the east coast of the united states. robyn? >> thanks for that, derek van dam, in florida.

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piles of rubble that used to be houses. some neighborhoods have completely been obliterated after getting lashed for days by the strongest storm ever to hit those islands. these images just one small part. residents are starting to emerge, some wading through chest-deep water. the prime minister says at least 30 people are trapped in one community. flooding, we know, has stalled rescue attempts across the islands. at least seven people have been killed, but that death toll is likely to rise. and hurricane dorian isn't done yet. look at this. the storm is certainly picking up speed as it moves along the u.s. coast. it's hardly the same storm, a little less intense, but a lot bigg bigger. it's also bringing dangerous rain and wind as menacing bands roll by florida and continue north towards the carolinas. pedram javaheri joins us now with the latest on dorian's track. so talk us through it. it's picked up speed but also got bigger. >> absolutely. that's the biggest concern here. when you look at this storm

system, it was about half of the size this time last week, about 250 miles across. at this point, it's 500 miles from its west to its east, which would encompass nearly the entire state of texas when you put this system over that state. you take a look. losing some organization, some symmetry. that's good news for the storm weakening and also picking up some forward speed. north-north west at 7 miles per hour. that eyewall, the most destructive part of the storm with 110-mile-per-hour winds, that's about 60 miles offshore. so it really speaks to the significance of how close a storm that essentially is one-mile-per-hour shy of a category 3, which is 111 miles per hour. so one-mile-per-hour shy of a major hurricane just sitting offshore. when you talk about category 5 systems, of course this was there not too long ago. and since 2016, from michael to irma to matthew and maria, all of them reaching category 5 status, all of them going through what is known as rapid intensification as well, increasing their winds at least 35 miles per hour within a 24-hour period.

of course the damage has been significant. y absolutely devastating this particular region on the northern fringes of the island. the before and after perspective where the really major portions of this island have been submerged and flattened of course with storm surge that was estimated to be 22 feet high. portions of the island do not have elevations that go up that high, so water literally going directly over every elevation of this particular island across the bahamas. and now we watch a storm system with very similar strength at least just offshore there with near category 3 strength skirting just up the eastern seaboard, this time tomorrow still going north-north west, we think. as we frtransition from tomorro night into thursday morning, that's where we think the area indicated in red has the best bet approaching towards land. we'll see some hurricane force gusts into tomorrow afternoon, and beyond that as we go into thursday afternoon, the best potential for an impact to land

potentially around charleston, if not myrtle beach, very close towards hatteras before we think it will want to steer to the north and east and away from land finally after at that .13 days of being a hurricane. so an incredible system here, and here's the latest model guidance. you kind of look at the spaghetti models, robyn, and just about every one of them brings it close to charleston, south carolina. nearly every single one of them wants to bring it ashore somewhere near wilmington, north carolina, or cape hatteras there. this is going to be a storm system we'll follow for a couple more days. unfortunately we don't expect significant weakening in the next couple of days. this will stay at least a category 2, we think, throughout the duration here for its landfall. >> pedram, thanks for that update and those spaghetti maps. joining me now on the line is kristin livengood. she's currently farther north at the brevard county emergency operation center. she's joining me now on the

phone. talk us through where you are and what folks are saying to you now. >> hey. how are you, robyn? so right now we've got before 60-mile-per-hour sustained winds passing by us on our barrier islands off of brevard county, which is about halfway up the state of florida. cape ca ynaveral is about 90 mis off of the east of cape canaveral right now, and we are having significant, considerable beach erosion happening from it. nothing in comparison to what the people of the bahamas are experiencing, but we are, you know, thankful that what we're experiencing right now, it could have been a lot worse. so we had some mandatory evacuations for people that lived along the coastline and in mobile homes and in low-lying areas. the most important thing we're waiting for is for tomorrow

morning when we are able to go outside and check for damages and eventually start letting people back home. right now there's 2,000 people without power, and we have 1,400 people in shelters and 148 pets in shelters and 14 shelters open for the people that had to evacuate the area. so we are just counting our lucky stars that this decided to make a northern turn and didn't hit us. >> certainly a relief that you didn't get worse conditions. but as we've been reporting, still not great. what are people saying to you? are they still scared? are they still concerned because you're saying you're still getting some pretty decent weather hitting you. >> yeah. i mean it's windy, rainy. people are wanting to know when they can head back home. we have, you know, several

causeways, bridges that go over to the barrier islands that people have been concerned about whether or not those would be opened or closed. right now all of the bridges and causeways are staying open unless there's anything concerning that we need to worry about, to check. the biggest thing right now is that the beach erosion along, you know, the treasure coast is so considerable. major, major beach erosion happening out there, like almost right up to a lot of the hotels. you know, very dangerous out there. the surf -- you know, there were surfers out there earlier, and eventually, you know -- >> that's crazy. >> -- brevard county sheriff's office had to go out there and tell them, this is so dangerous. please get off. people were out there taking pictures and stuff. i don't think they realized the magnitude of the storm. but right now we are in the brunt of it as it's passing by our coast. luckily that's happening now at night when people are hopefully

in their sheltered and bunkered down. >> and not trying to surf. certainly not a time for complacency. thanks so much for that update. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having us. now, both the u.s. president, vice president are defending their weekend activities. donald trump fired back at criticism that he played golf while hurricane dorian pummeled the bahamas, and then mike pence is facing questions about staying at one of the president's golf courses during an official trip to ireland. jim acosta has all the details. here's jim. >> reporter: president trump isn't asking for a mulligan after hitting the links at his virginia golf course over the labor day weekend as hurricane dorian pounded the bahamas. he's teeing off on his critics, tweeting that many politicians exercise for hours or travel for weeks. me, i run through one of my courses, very inexpensive. but the president wasn't alone in showing his preference for trump properties. vice president mike pence stayed at the trump golf resort in doonbeg, ireland, three hours

from dublin, where he was to hold official meetings. >> i understand political attacks by democrats. the opportunity to stay at trump national in doonbeg to accommodate the unique footprint that comes with our security detail and other personnel made it logical. >> reporter: as it turns out, staying at the trump club was mr. trump's idea. pence's chief of staff told reporters, i don't think it was a request, like a command. i think it was a suggestion. the white house says the president was receiving constant updates on the storm even as mr. trump was stating he had never heard of a category 5 hurricane before. >> i'm not sure that i've ever even heard of a category 5. i knew it existed, and i've seen some category 4s. you don't even see them that much. but a category 5 is something that i don't know that i've ever even heard the term other than i know it's there. >> reporter: but that's not true. the president has repeatedly claimed he's never heard of such storms in the past. >> it was a category 5. i never even knew a category 5

existed. nobody's ever heard of a 5 hitting land. i saw the devastating effects of that category 5 hurricane. category 5. >> reporter: former white house communications director anthony scaramucci says he's worried about the president's mental state. >> he has a few phrases that he uses repetitively that he thinks is working. so saying he's never heard of a category 5 hurricane and not rememb remembering that he's heard of a category 5 hurricane is emblematic in terms of what's going on in the mental decline. >> reporter: over the weekend, the president states in addition to florida, south carolina, north carolina, georgia, and alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated. but that wasn't quite right. the national weather service in birmingham appeared to correct mr. trump's tweet, saying alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. the president didn't like the coverage that received, tweeting, it was in fact correct that alabama could have received some hurt. always good to be prepared. as for the vice president's visit to the trump property in

ireland, the white house says pence will be paying for the cost of his family members who also stayed at the resort. but the rest of the costs for all the secret service agents and other government workers traveling with pence, that will be picked up by the taxpayers. aides say the president will not be picking up the tab. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> thanks, jim, for that. be sure to tune in later today for a cnn special town hall as the 2020 democratic presidential candidates take on the climate crisis. it starts at 5:00 p.m. in new york, 10:00 p.m. in london, only here on cnn. and what was supposed to be a scuba diving adventure off the coast of california turned into tragedy for dozens of families. still to come here on cnn, why the search for survivors of this fiery boat disaster has now been called off. the cells in your body...

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we are following breaking news this hour with our first look at the sheer devastation caused by hurricane dorian in the bahamas. the island paradise has been decimated as you can see by the

storm. at least seven people are dead, but that toll is expected to rise. and right now the storm is moving along the florida coast with heavy rain, fierce wind gusts. it's expected to stay offshore for now. and a teenager in the u.s. state of alabama faces five murder charges after confessing to shooting his family with a 9 millimeter handgun. police say the 14-year-old shot his father, his stepmother, and his three younger siblings, including his 6-month-old brother. investigators haven't established a motive for the killings, which happened in the family home. though currently charged as a juvenile, authorities say the teen might face adult counts of murder following a judicial review. and 34 people trapped in a boat after it caught fire off the coast of california are now presumed dead. the u.s. coast guard has called off its search for survivors. only five people -- the captain and four members of the crew -- were found alive. and as stephanie elam now

reports, there are lots of questions about what happened. >> reporter: dramatic new video from the california coast guard shows the battle to save the dive boat off senate cruz island as rescue crews suspend the search for survivors. >> it is never an easy decision to suspend search efforts. >> reporter: 39 people were aboard the ship as an inferno took hold in the early morning hours. family members now being asked for dna samples to help identify the victims as body bags are brought ashore. investigators say many were believed to be in bed at the time. this video shows the ship's tight sleeping quarters. wooden bunks stacked three high. a single staircase the only obvious way out. >> there was a stairwell to get down the main entryway up and down, and there was an escape hatch, and it would appear as though both of those were blocked by fire. >> reporter: that portion of the ship is now gone. >> mayday, mayday, mayday! i can't breathe. >> reporter: the only known

survivors are five members of the crew. they pounded on bob and shirley hansen's nearby boat for help. >> they were all in their underwear, okay? all five crew members. and while one of them was in levis, but they were torn. it's what he just threw on. >> it was such a hopeless, helpless feeling to watch that boat burn. >> reporter: the surviving crew recalled those who may have been onboard at the time. >> some of the crew told me such sad stories because there was a 17-year-old girl celebrating her birthday with her parents. she might not have another birthday. >> reporter: of the 20 bodies that have been recovered, we now know that 11 are female and 9 are male. while driveivers were down ther with the wreckage on the ocean floor, they believe they saw the remains of what looked like four to six people they're working to recover. still that would mean some bodies are still outstanding and they'll be looking to see if they can recover those remains and bring them back up here onshore. stephanie elam, cnn, santa

barbara, california. >> thanks, stephanie. it's just agonizing. some other news we're covering here at cnn, the police now know the gunman responsible for killing seven people in a west texas shooting rampage. they know now where he obtained his weapon. the shooter had they say the semi-automatic rifle was purchased at a private sale which does not require a background check. investigators still don't know why he shot and killed seven people, wounding 25. and america's largest retailer, walmart, says it will stop selling ammunition for handguns and short barrel rifles. it's asking that customers no longer openly carry guns into its stores as well. the national rifle association responded saying it's "shameful the country succumbed to the pressure of the anti-gun elites." and we're getting our first look at that devastation after hurricane dorian slams the bahamas. we are continuing to monitor the

story. we don't know half the story yet. these images are all new. coming in. the devastation still to be seen. but the storm is not done yet. the latest on its movements. that's just ahead as well.

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and from all around the world. i'm rosemary church at cnn center. and we are following two major stories this hour. the destructive hurricane making its way up the southeastern coast of the united states and on the brexit front the british prime minister has lost a key vo vote. the year's most powerful