alex was flown to nassau where our crew captured the tearful reunion with relatives today. so happy he got out and he is back with the family. and to our viewers thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. outfront next, breaking news, hurricane dorian targets the carolinas. hurricane forepersons winds and tornadoes tearing apart homes, conditions only getting where is. also breaking, bahama's health minister warning the death toll is about soar as we take you to one of the hardest hit areas where rescuers are now in a race against time to save those still trapped without food or water. and the white house with a new explanation as to why the president continues to insist that alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian. let's go outfront. good evening, i'm poppy haarlow in for erin burnett. outfront tonight.

breaking news hurricane dorian carving a destructive path up the eastern sea board. the category 2 stormting north and south carolina with drench be rains and hurricane foerns wintsds. you are looking at pictures off the coast of cape fear north carolina happenered right now process in south carolina leaching the neighborhoods under water. informs the scene in charleston, now 1,600 national guard troops deployed across the south carolina coast to help with rescues. the storm leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power tonight. also tonight, this is one of the biggest threats to those in the storm's path, tornadoes. look at that video. tornadoes that have leveled homes across the carolinas. as the storm moves north, let me show you just some incredible video from inside of dorian's eye as you can see clear skies above surrounded by what is called a stadium of thunderstorms rapidly circling the center. the storm responsible for 23

deaths in the bahamas. and the island's health minister said moments ago, the public needs to be prepared for an unimaginable death toll. we have teams of reporters standing by from the carolinas to the bahamas where search and rescue is under way. let's begin with marty savage outfront live in miles an hourle beach, south carolina. conditions seems to be getting worse and worse by the minute for you. >> they are. the wind has been increasing dramatically in the last hour or so. the rain of course hitting you full face on just feels like needles. and it's been driving more and more rain into this area on top of the high winds and the high surf they've been dealing with. this is one part of north carolina where they expected that they would get an unusual storm surge. anywhere from five to eight feet. fortunately, now, the tide is on the way out. but the other thing that was not anticipated as much were the tornadoes. it began very early this morning when the first warnings happened

and then almost every half hour there was another tornado warning that was being alerted to the public. frightening to many, because they knew to anticipate a hurricane. but these kind of spin off tornadoes as they're known are really something that no one could predict. any strike very quickly. they're not as severe as the oklahoma or kansas variety. but they still can do a lot of damage, and then they're gone. the fear tonight is that people won't be able to see them, only hear them. as well as dorian itself as that fury is being unleashed here in south carolina and will move on to north carolina, hundreds of thousands of people without power. and many of them wondering, when will dorian finally be gone, poppy. >> and that is the increasing danger of the storm that's so slow moving and sits. and sitting there is what caused that destruction in the bahamas. marty, for you, i mean you're a big guy and you're having a hard time holding your ground.

wearing a hard hat. you have covered a lot of hurricanes. does this one feel different? >> well, the thing about in that's so amazing with this storm is how long it has persisted. you look at what it did with puerto rico, and then what you saw over the weekend in the bahamas, how this storm has still held itself together. it's nothing like what it was when it struck the bahamas, but still a powerful storm that has continued to keep millions of people wondering and worrying about where it's going. and that worry continues tonight. there is a curfew in many parts of in county that's in effect, which means until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow people are going to be just hunkered down hoping for the best. >> martin savage in myrtle beach, south carolina. thank you so much, marty, you and your team for braving that to bring us that reporting ton. we appreciate it. and the destructive storm

surge left city blocks under water in charleston. that's where we find brian todd. are the waters receding there. >> only slightly poppy. we've been getting hammered with rain and wind really more than 15 hours. and the flooding is still present and still dangerous here. this stret behind me flooded. i'm showing you kind of three angles down two different streets to illustrate for you the adversity that charlestonens feeling tonight. we have been in touch with the mayor's office saying that they had to close 137 roads clout the trarlts area. that is part of the problem here. here is another part. they have cherry pickers down streets like this. this one has been here several hours a large tree fell on power lines down there. and they are trying to cut parts of the tree off the lines just to try to get the street out of dangerous, much less restore the power. the power may not be restored for days. they're trying to eliminate some of the dangerous involved in trying to, you know, walk down

this street. >> sure. >> and we can pivot down here. this -- if you look down here, beyond where the cars are, there is a large magnolia tree that did something similar, fell in the middle of a series of power lines. those power lines put -- they dragged down two power poles leaning dangerously close to houses. police officers had to go to houses on the lester side of the street to get people out of the houses to eliminate some of the dangerous to them because it's still a fire hazard with the power lines down with the magnolia tree. we saw transformers blow. we have seen a downed power line whipping around causing power lines to explode. this is why local officials are saying do not venture out. and people who have evacuated do not be quick to come back. >> we're looking at images from a bit early earlier of the live wire exploding on a stret in charleston as well.

where a lot of the danger lies or exactly right. thank you so much for that reporting. let's go to our meteorologist tom sater outfront in the weather center. where is dorian going now, tom? >> well it's picking up speed, poppy. that's what we want to see but also getting broad ner the wind field. hurricane warnings south of charleston up to the lower neck of the chesapeake right now. we thought maybe this eye would be collapsing for a while. but now the eye wall is closest approach to land within about 15 miles, a little concerned about the curvature of north carolina taking the winds straight on with the storm surge. at least the winds are coming offshore in charleston. the harbor not quite matching up the on shore winds with high tide as 2:00 p.m. they didn't get the high levels they were expecting. but as marten mentioned with, the feeder binds. tornados spin up ef 1 or 2. but many quite large in size. as the storm approaches areas to

the nourgt winds around south popularity. wektd have landfall. worried about the outer banks one of the more susceptible praises in the world for storm surge 4 to 7. may have travel disruptions saturday morning as the storm continues to move out. this is day 13. poppy of forecasting tomorrow day 14. it's traveled 3,000 miles. and look where it goes. nova scotia. across the northern atlantic up near greenland. but the middle of next week talk being about strong winds in the united kingdom. current position is 45 miles south southeast of myrtle beach. >> wow, it's one for the record books. thank you so much. >> yes. >> we appreciate it. outfront now with me is the mayor of myrtle beach. brenden bethune. and i spoke with you this morning. i know conditions were bad. how much worse are they now? >> we're still getting some of the hurricane effects, poppy. for the most part, though when i look at what the bahamas got and

neighbors south in charleston, we're okay. >> i'm glad to hear it. one of the big kwerns tonight mayor as you know we heard from marty savage there, is the tornadoes that have been spawned from this storm that come so quickly without warning for many people. is that your biggest concern tonight? >> you know, that was a shock i think to everyone because they started around 3:30 or 4:00 a.m. this morning. and we have been told all along there was a low risk of tornadoes. and that's somethng we don't usually get in this area. so, yes, that was a shock to us. very unexpected. and really not a lot that you can do to prepare for it. >> yeah. i know that you also issued a declaration of civil emergency today. and some officials there and the reporting i read estimate that really oem a small percentage of people in your area are actually evacuating and following the evacuation orders. in fact, far fewer than

evacuated during hurricane florence. are you seeing the same thing? >> well, we did not have as large of an evacuation area as we did for florence. >> right. >> the evacuation for this storm was really only zone a which is the coastal area. but we also had 100,000 visitors in town for the labor day weekend. we do feel that they did get out of town safely. as far as residents, i really don't have a gauge on that at this time. but our streets are very, very quiet. i know that people are inside, just waiting this thing out. and tomorrow we have crews ready to hit the streets to do damage assessments and get myrtle beach cleaned up and ready to welcome our visitors back. >> and they will be back, for sure. mayor bee thune thank you so much for being with us we know how busy you are. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. outfront next more on the breaking news hurricane dorian's winds tearing into north carolina. there is a growing threat there

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drew griffin is outfront tonight in wilmington, north carolina. drew, what's it like there? >> yeah, we just drove down from morehead city through welcomes and came through poppy sheets and sheets of rain in the bands. but sbrmtly you get into a period like this relative lull. wilmington is waiting to find out if this storm which has just been popping up and down the coast of the united states will actually make landfall here or out at carolina beach where they're getting some strong winds. right now there is a flash flood warning for this area. rain is going to be potentially a really big problem. but right now we are just waiting to see if in fact dorian makes landfall here for the first time in the united states in what seems to be a storm that just never seems to end, poppy. >> it will just not quit. thank you very much. hoping for the best for you and your crew. outfront now north carolina

governor, roy cooper. thank you for being with me. >> thanks a lot poppy. >> you were briefed on the hurricane moments ago. you are saying it's a long night ahead. what should and people in your state expect. >> dorian has north carolina in its sights. it will be a long night. and we know that already we have had about a dozen tornadoes. the wind is picking up significantly. already we have some roads that have been closed because of flooding. we need people to hunker down and stay safe. we don't need people leaving their homes. >> right. >> and particularly we don't need people driving through flooded streets. it puts your life at risk and also the lives of first responders who may have to save you. that's important. >> sure. >> that's -- safety is our number one effort tonight. >> i know. and you have activated 527 additional north carolina national guard members to ensure that safety. again your message don't let the guard down. and see in part, governor because you are concerned that

too many people are not taking this storm seriously enough? >> well, north carolina has had dsh this is now our third hurricane in less than three years. >> wow. >> so we can't let familiarity contest our judgment here. >> sure. >> we need to make sure that we are making smart decisions. i believe that the people of north carolina understand firsthand the dangers that come with the storms. i believe that we are ready. we have significant number of saerch rescue teams, wift water rescue teams. we even have teams in from other states to help us. we are working closely with the coast guard. we are ready at a moment's notice to save people who may get into situations where they are being flooded out. >> right. >> we hope this thing moves quickly and out to sea quickly. but we know that at least part of our state is going to get it.

and likely coming over land but certainly even in the part that it doesn't go over, that eye wall will have significant effects. >> sure. >> we're already see going right now. >> governor what's your concern level about the tornadoes? in south carolina they've been popping up very quickly with a lot of strength. and people are just unaware of the risks. >> these tornadoes that come about as a result of these hurricanes, one of the problems the meteorologist talking with me about it today, is that they do come up very quickly with little warning. and here we are approaching darkness in north carolina. so on top of that you likely will not be able to see them. so it's important that people in their homes have multiple ways to listen for tornado warnings to make sure that they get to a -- of an inside room in their house and to make sure that they

are safe. because you -- we need to stay on our toes tonight, because, particularly the counties that are on the coast and are just inland that these tornadoes can hit pretty hard. we have already had a significant tornado at emerald isle. unfortunate we in a mandatory evacuation in effect and there were few people there. when you look at the rv park and the destruction that occurred. you have to think if there had been a lot of people there that probably someone would have lost the life. so we're pleased we were able to issue that evacuation order and glad that no one got seriously injured in that tornado. >> and. >> that was some terrible damage. >> governor before you go because i know it's a busy night for you. do you feel you have the resources to handle the aftermath of what dorian will bring? >> there is no question that we have the resources. we are on ready. we want to keep people safe in north carolina. so we'll be ready for the storm

if the will of the people of north carolina could have pushed this storm off into the sea, then that would have happened because you can't match the determination and resilience of north carolinians. but we are in for a long night and we'll be eager to see the sunshine in the morning. >> and so will we all. we'll be watching. good luck to you and tour state. see you tomorrow. thanks so much. >> thank you, poppy. >> outfront next, new video as cnn takes you to one of the hardest hit areas of the bahamas. i will speak to a storm survivor who is running out of food and water. plus new questions about who was briefing the president and with what information after his own administration puts out yet another explanation as to why the president claims alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian this week? . lore and experience adventure in unexpected places... ♪ who were inspired by different cultures

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and that is again expected to rise significantly. and dramatic new drone video shows a tiny island in the abacos torn apart by dorian. our paula newton is outfront tonight in nassau. you and your teams have been remarkable. you were able to get to great abcoand spend 24 hours on the island walk us through what you saw. >> when you look at the drone shots, poppy, it's utterly unspeakable what the people have been through. you are looking at debris, homes that do not exist. walk you through this. the roof blows off. then they look for any room in the house any wall to take shelter. the storm went on and on over 200 miles an hour winds. all of this debris was hitting at them. hitting into buildings with lethal force hour after hour through all of this, the whipping water they said it was

like water canon into homes. they were pulling mattresses off beds to prop them up against windows and doors. unimaginable. people telling me, poppy, they have yet to come to terms with everything they have been through. they are so shocked and can't believe they survived it. take a listen. >> i just want to let me family in the states know that we are okay. >> i'm so are sorry. >> thank god for life. >> well. >> it's not just us. everybody is hurting. they could never categoryize this. never. >> my grandfather ran out. >> it was like an atomic bomb went off. >> i mean, the magnitude of in, and these are people, po poppy that had been through storm before. they are self-reliant they have good quality homes. any survived all the other storms before.

they knew they would be okay. what they said to me was they never expected this kind of storm and do not know what they are going to do now or even if they can stay on the island where a lot of the people were born and raised raise their own own families. >> paula, you ended up getting stuck with your team, your producer, cameraman, overnight on great abaco. with you yet a family who had been with the hell their home partially destroyed took you guys in. what was that like? >> yeah, i mean, poppy, imagine, we are parents with young kids. >> yeah. >> they've arena and channing, eight and four they took us in, took the mattresses, propped up against windows trying to get the house together they let us sleep on their beds. we didn't want to be a burden to anyone. it's very chaotic out there. we stayed on the island. we said we would sleep anywhere. the people on manno war in abaco island said we will take you in. that's the kind of humanity that

got them through the storm poppy. the issue is now what do you do? the family that hit let us in marshall and angel cruise they have family in florida and can go back. they don't want to. the question that pops up, is what can we do here? the kids needed to go to skoom. they're not going to be able to go to school for a long time. poppy i want to tell you it was chilling to hear the alert from the health minister. i heard personally from people give me a death toll much higher from 23 -- than 23 people they had seen die in front of their eyes or bodies they had seen. until we have the verification from the government we certainly can't go with any of the information. but the stories that i have heard are just absolutely horrendous. people basically clinging on for dear life a hour after hour and now dealing with the aftermath. >> my goodness. paula, thank you so much for the remarkable reporting there and

bringing us the story of the family with such a big heart in the middle of such a tragedy. thank you. with me on the phone is pedillion nixon who rode out the storm thank you for being here. >> no problem. >> you say unfortunately you are in an episode of the walking dead. >> it's definitely that without the walkers. we have a struggle for food and water like you -- to find it it's really hard out there. >> you have also talked about seeing people forced to give up homes. >> yes. >> with guns pointed at their heads. is that right. >> there are people looting. people looting over here at the moment. and they are looking for places to stay. so people that homes are standing they are going into the homes and kicking them out. and taking over. >> you're currently with your sister, mother nephew and uncle

rationing food. you lost power, cell phone service for a while. >> yes. >> no where to go. >> i have the i had to stand on the beach to find a tower to get service. where we are we are blocked off on every side. the roads are flooded we can't get past without a high level vehicle. we can't get food or water our rations are getting low. we're trying to signal any nema helicopters are flying. >> our colleague, patrick ottman who has been reporting on freeport throughout the storm said that he doesn' have a sense at all that anyone is in charge there. there is chaos and it doesn't seem like anyone is in charge. is that how it feels where you are as well. >> yes. yes. i saw people coming out of marshal they say no one is getting rations. they are stealing from food

stores that are flooded and broken down to get food and whatever they need. and we -- we have no way no help where we are. there is no one focused on the central abaco. no power, no water. it's just you get what you get. >> you get what you get. i'm so sorry you shouldn't have to go through this in the aftermath you should have all the aid you need. we'll keep spotlighting in story. i'm so sorry we wish the best for you and your family. thank you for calling in. >> of course. >> outfront next breaking news, the white house out tonight with yet another reason why president trump said alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian. the thing is why is he talking about in and tweeting about this when you have the tragedy in the bahamas that you just heard from our last guest? why isn't that top of mind? and hurricane dorian bearing down on north carolina as residents are told to seek settler right now. the state's governor is with me. what he is expecting tonight.

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all right. more breaking news out of the bahamas tonight, hundreds if not thousands of people still missing there after hurricane dorian. that is according to the director general of the bahamas ministry of tourism tonight. and this is crews and volunteers scramble across the islands to rescue residents. the coast guard just announcing

it alone has rescued 201 people at this hour. 11 different helicopters are being used for the search and rescue missions and support. outfront now seaman villa rodriguez he has been supporting the u.s. coast guard relief efforts in the bahamas flying over the damage since tuesday. thank you for doing that appear for being with me tonight. this is video you shot showing some of the coast guard rescues taking place in the bahamas. how many more people from your assessment do you believe need to be rescued? >> yeah, thank you for having us. we have been developing rescues since day one. we have around 200 people rescued until this time and we have assets on air looking for any way to provide assistance to the bahamian people best way

possible. >> can you tell us a little bit what people that you rescued told you? what did they tell you about their experience? how many people they may have left behind who need to be rescued? >> okay, so we were approaching to the pressure cay area there was around 8 people in need of critical medical assistance. the members provided transportation and delivered them in order to provide us that medical assistance that they needed so hard. >> the minister of health in the bahamas just said in a radio interview tonight that the public needs to be prepared for unimaginable information about the death toll and human suffering and said make no bones about it, the number will be far higher than 23.

from what you have seen, do you share the assessment? >> well, we don't have a -- a specific number confirmed yet. but we want to tell the public the bahamian people if you are in distress, please use 911 or 919 in order to request assistance. if any case of distress. >> okay. 911 or 919 for anyone needing help. thank you, again, eric for all you guys are doing. >> definitely. >> so the white house tonight trying to defend the president's claim this week that alabama was this week in the path of hurricane dorian. their explanation raising even more questions. plus why is he focused on this right now anyways? also breaking news, investigators revealing new details tonight about the ship that went up in flames, killing 34 people onboard, what the ship's crew is now telling

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tonight, the white house is trying to defend president trump's alabama storm blunder with a new statement from an adviser they say showed the president a map with alabama as part of the path of the hurricane this we can. but it just wasn't the president continues to insist in multiple new tweets today and tonight that alabama was in that path this week. even though it clearly wasn't when he said it was. katlyn collins outfront at the white house tonight. you have no reporting on this new statement issued by the white house? >> yeah, poppy request, if the tweets weren't evidence the president is not going to drop in and admit he was wrong about alabama. the white house had the security dwishz release this insisting what he was briefed on related to alabama. now we are told it was the president who personally directed that homeland security adviser rear admiral peter brown to issue this statement defending the president and

claims about alabama potentially being in hurricane dorian's path. that's significant because the homeland security adviser use used to be a job carrying a lot of weight but after john bolton became the national security adviser he downgraded the position twice so he no longer reported to the president directly but to bolton. however they are using the homeland security security adviser to give the president cover as he doubles down on the claim he was right. >> president trump is now on day five of insisting alabama was in the path of hurricane dorian. >> that was the original chart. >> after being ridiculed for displaying a forecast map altered by a black marker to prove his point, trump tweeted more dated maps today, claiming just as i said, alabama was originally projected to be hit. the fake news denies it. he now says he was referencing early predictions when he

claimed alabama could be impacted process. >> i know that alabama was in the original forecast. >> but he firps made that assertion sunday, long after the state was ruled out as a potential target. while the gulf coast was shown as a possible threat for dorian's track in early projections by friday the guidance had shifted to florida's east coast. two days before trump said this. >> this just came up unfortunately. >> the president cancelled a trip to poland to monitor the storm. and the white house said he was being updated every hour. meaning he would have known that information. instead of admitting the error and moving on, trump is insisting he is right. even tweeting out projections last night from over a week ago with dated information. the spaghetti models the the president is using as a defense are updated four times a day. meaning by the time trump made this claim sunday. >> alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds

and something more than that it could be. >> they had been updated at least 15 times. it's against the law to knowingly issue or publish a false weather forecast though right now both fema noaa are not saying. >> my colleagues are telling us that in afternoon the president summoned the fox news white house reporter to the oval office to convince him he was right about the claim about alabama after edin criticized op the air and even in an email that that reporter sent to colleagues saying the president just wanted acknowledgement he was right about alabama even though we should note when the president sent the tweet on sunday he was not. >> wow. katlyn, thank you for that reporting. outfront now politics editor for "the new york times" patrick healy. patrick, the president will not stop on this. he continues to tweet about it.

at a time when at least 20 bahamians are dead. the death toll expected to go way up we heard tonight. you've got the storm battering south and north carolina tonight. and yet the president is mainly talking about alabama. why? >> it's a president who does not and seems to be unable to admit that he was wrong. this is a president who as we saw from the very early days when he came into office when he was so focused and preoccupied on the size of his crowds at the inauguration that he was ordering up visual evidence to try to sort of support the false claim. and it's really, you know, striking now poppy, because as you said, you know, there are lives that have been lost, lives that are at stake. this is still a very serious storm. and the president is now in day 5, you know, talking about how right he was when he wasn't

right. look, people to be -- we all like to talk about the weather. but this is a very strange preoccupation of the president, his need to show that he was right about a weather forecast, you know, again, when the storm is very serious when there are serious issues facing congress like background checks on gun control, he can't get off it. >> patrick healy, thank you very much. >> thanks, poppy. >> outfront next, a heart breaking story, a woman loses not only her husband but her daughter in the tragic boat fire off the coast of california. i will speak to her next, and we will honor her loved ones.

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breaking news. investigators are revealing tonight what they were told by the surviving crew members of the conception, that dive boat that caught fire off the coast of southern california earlier this week, killing 34 people on board. >> one crew member reported that he awoke to a noise and left his bunk and out of the wheel house deck, and saw flames erupting from the galley area. he tried to get down a ladder. flames had engulfed the ladder. >> out front now, vicky moore, she lost her beloved husband scott and their beautiful

26-year-old daughter kendra in that fire. vicky, i don't know where you get the strength to be here, but thank you for being with us tonight. >> oh, i'm doing this to honor them. >> of course. and that's what we have you here for. so let's just begin with kendra, your firstborn, 26 years old. as a mother, i cannot imagine losing a child, no one can, until it happens to them. but can you just spend some time telling us about her? what do you want everyone to know about kendra? >> well, yeah, kendra was -- i don't like to use the word "was" but amazing and beautiful and accomplished, curious, adventurous young woman. from a very early age she wanted to explore, was so curious,

particularly her love of the marine environment and ocean life and was in the pursuit of an amazing career in wildlife biology -- biologist with the u.s. fish and wildlife service and about to embark on applying for graduate school. she wanted to devote her life to protection of coastal areas. my husband and i were incredibly proud of her. >> well, she was also incredibly grateful for both of you. i want everyone to take a moment. just listen to this video, because as you said she worked for the u.s. fish and wildlife service. she was part of this video where she talked about her passion and how much she loved her work, and she credits you and your late husband with giving her that passion. let's watch a little bit of her. >> i grew up really fortunate to have parents that were both majored in science and they definitely encouraged me to pursue my interest.

i grew up scuba diving here in the channel islands. i would go with my dad every year. and i love it. >> she credits the two of you, vicky, for that gift. >> yeah, well, we -- yeah, we did everything we could to encourage her and expose her to so many things in the world, and it obviously rubbed off on her, yeah. >> it's the greatest gift you can give your kids, right, to help them find what they love, and you did that. >> yeah, thank you. >> you lost your husband. you were married for 35 years. you met at age 19. and what i love about his story is he left this, you know, hot-shot tech job to pursue his passion, to teach children. what do you want people to know about scott? >> yeah, again, you know, you really don't think about all

these things until you have questions like this that happen about what an incredible person he was, you know, intellectually, incredibly gifted in his electrical engineering and hardware design, his first career. and all of the times, all the years that i've been with him he has been an outdoor adventurer. he was avid cyclist. still -- to this day, i mean, almost to this day he's been out there cycling, hiking, skiing, of course scuba diving. and just multifaceted. he has great appreciation for the arts and culture and we had amazing travels together and just -- wonderfully complete and well rounded and, like i said, multifaceted person.

and a loving father, an amazing father, an amazing husband. and, yeah, you know, when you really think about it, you realize the totality of it when you have to actually -- it's not every day somebody asks you this question, right. >> of course. >> and then you have to think oh, yeah, well, he does this, and he does this. and then you're like, oh, my god, that's a lot. that's who he was. >> how do you sum up the love of your life and your firstborn? i know you can't, but what i am so, so glad for, vicky, is that you have your son, your 22-year-old son kevin who has been by your side through all of this. >> absolutely. thank god. and we are here for each other and we both know, not just us, but our extended family who has been here with us. we know that our journey is -- i

mean, our lives are forever changed. it's just the experience, it's somewhat surreal really, but we're going to be on this journey whether we like it or not, and, you know, we're going to make it. we really -- i think we really are going to be thinking about my husband scott and my daughter kendra and a lot of what we do in our lives, we hope to continue to honor them because they did such amazing things. we're going to honor that. >> they clearly lived the fullest lives that they possibly could, even though they were taken far too soon. vicky, again, your strength is remarkable. i am so sorry from the bottom of my heart. i really don't have words, but please know that we are all with you, and thank you for sharing about scott and ken tra with dr tonight. >> thank you. thanks a lot.

>> we'll be thinking about her for a long time. thank you all for joining me tonight. erin will be back with you tomorrow night. ac 360 starts now. >> good evening, we begin with breaking news on hurricane dorian, which is hitting the carolina coast right now and has done when the prime minister of the bahamas is calling generational devastation to his country. i spoke with the prime minister just before the program, and he says the death toll is now 30, and that he expects it to rise further. you'll hear that conversation with the prime minister shortly as well as chef jose andres about the state of his food relief effort. on top of that there is the president who again and again kept turning to the falsehood he tweeted subbed about alabama being in the storm track. one political reporter last night called the behavior, quote, pathological. that was before developments all day today. we begin, though, with the real story about the real storm and what it's doing to people, real people who don't live in the white house. for that want to start off with cnn meteorologist jennifer gray. let'