>> 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's talk about the storm,

where it is now and what's the latest. >> it's about 30 miles south of cape fear. it's moving to the northeast. still 100 miles per hour with 125 mile per hour gusts. it is moving a little bit faster in this 8:00 advisory, ten miles per hour, that's good news for the people along the north carolina coast. but it's still going to be a rough night for you. we are going to get a lot of wind, a lot of rain, and that storm surge is going to be very real across this portion of north carolina. so we're going to continue to see those impacts across the state, anderson, as we go through the overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. >> at this point is it expected to make landfall somewhere? >> that's the million dollar question. we don't know. at this point i would say it's probably doubtful. it is going to just skirt the coast off to the north and east and that's really what we're going to see over the overnight hours. we're going to see a lot of wind, we're going to see rain, we're going to get storm surge 4 to 7 feet. so even though we're not going to necessarily get a landfall per se, we might, but if we

don't, even if we don't get a landfall, we are still going to get 4 to 7 feet of storm surge across north carolina. we all know how vulnerable the outer banks are with that push of water. one of the most vulnerable pl s places in the world with storm surge. so it's going to be a rough night. this is going to end by midday tomorrow, and then it will be offshore, but it's still going to be a wild night across north carolina. >> it is sapp headed toward -- what kind of impact could it have there? is storm surge the biggest concern? >> yeah, storm surge is going to be the biggest concern, especially for these areas right along the coast and even into the outer banks. we are going to see a lot of rain and also the tornado threat is very real with these hurricanes. in fact, we've been seeing it all afternoon. we're going continue to see it through the overnight hours, and especially with the sun down now, it is going to be -- it's definitely going to be rough as far as -- as far as the tornadoes go, especially if you can't see those during the overnight hours, anderson.

>> jennifer gray, appreciate it. want to check in with myrtle beach. what's going on there? >> reporter: the winds were coming in from the north. right now they're coming in from the west. we're getting the back end of the storm. as you can see the wind gusts are pretty bad right now. earlier today, the wind gusts were at about 20 to 30 miles an hour, but as the day progressed, the conditions did deteriorate with some of the gusts clocking at about 45 to 55 miles an hour. and again, we're getting the back end of the storm. these strong wind gusts, of course, cause power outages across the coast. here in the county, about 10,000 people have been without power. i got to tell you, i've talked to both city officials and county officials. and for the most part, they do feel, though, that they have

dodged the bullet so far here in the county and myrtle beach because the storm surge did not materialize. that's what they were most afraid of. the storm surge was estimated to be at 5 to 8 feet with -- on top of that they were expecting high tide. and then on top of that, between 4 to 8 inches of rain. now, thank god that that did not materialize because that's why they feel that they really dodged a bullet. the worst damage, they tell me, was most likely from a tornado that spun out earlier this morning. we were out there earlier, anderson. i can tell you that community did receive some damage. there was some damage to buildings and to vehicles. but overall, the good news was that no one was injured. >> appreciate it. thank you very much. as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast the official death

count in the bahamas is 30. the prime minister you'll hear in the next segment said he expects it to climb higher. the worst is on the abaco island. paula and her team are just back from there, filed this report. >> reporter: it is so much worse than they had feared. the abaco islands forever scarred now by mass destruction, home after home, entire rooftops blown away, debris scattered in unrecognizable heaps, boats tossed like confetti. the images belie the obvious question. how could anyone survive this? >> oh, my god. >> okay, okay, okay. you're okay. you're okay. you're going to be okay. >> reporter: we arrived by helicopter in man of war in abaco with billy aubrey, embracing his wife shawna after

days of not knowing if she was dead or alive. shawna hunkered down with friends in their sea side home until the roof blew off and they all scrambled to find anything still standing. >> so, nancy, this is what kept you alive, this little bathroom. >> this kept us alive. this is it. came in and hunkered down. sthaun a was on the ground crying. with he were just trying -- >> i'm hysterical. >> reporter: what did it sound like in here at the time? >> it was loud. >> well, there was a lot of crashing -- >> crashing. >> the crashing and banging and whirling. >> stuff we thought was coming through this wall. >> reporter: so many in the abaco islands lived through hours that resembled a horror movie, exposed to winds that topped 215 miles an hour like tornadoes touching down every minute. >> words can't describe it. i don't wish it on nobody. nobody -- i can't describe it.

they could never categorize this, never. it was like anatomic bomb went off. >> reporter: residents here tell me their little island paradise is unrecognizable even to them. they're resourceful and self-reliant, they say, but they could have never imagined a storm as powerful as dorian. you know, there's no better way to describe to you the force of hurricane dorian to be right here where people rode out the storm in their living rooms, in their dining rooms. i mean, look at this. the roof blew off the house here. the entire kitchen came down. their refrigerator ended up here on the ground. their living room and dining room furniture is strewn all over. people describe these things being tossed around the island like projectiles. they all coward, hovered in their bathrooms, in closets, anything they could find to take shelter. there are now the beginnings of recovery, but only the basics. medical attention. private helicopters to take out those who are sick.

the elderly. young families. >> i'm sure it will never be the same again. i mean, the people are strong here. we're going to try to do our best to rebuild the best way we can, but we know it will never be the same. >> reporter: this was a storm of biblical proportions, abacoians tell me. it will take a miracle to recover from it all. >> you've been talking to a lot of people there. what have they been telling you? obviously for most people, none of them have seen a storm of this magnitude before. >> reporter: yeah, no, and they've been through so many of them, anderson. here's the thing. they're telling me that they're terrified. first traumatized, of course, by the storm. still trying to take that all in. but as you just said in the beginning of my piece about the death toll, they're terrified of what they will learn about friends and relatives. that's the key thing, anderson, so many of them are still looking for missing people and that's why what this government

is saying about the death toll and having to prepare the country for that is so terrifying to them. the other thing, anderson, of course, when they talk about rebuilding, they're wondering if they're going to return to any of these islands. they know the monumental task ahead. like at the island i was on, man of war. they didn't see any help from government. this is now day five. they know that they need a lot. they're asking a lot, and they need it. and without it they cannot live on these islands. obviously disease is a huge problem right now as well. they better than anyone else know exactly what they're up against and they're wondering if their government, if the international effort will be up to it. >> yeah, you know, it's interesting. i just spoke to the prime minister before air and we're going to play that conversation in just a moment. but it certainly seems like -- he talks about a search and rescue team from the u.s. coming in with some 50 people, but i'm not sure that -- it doesn't seem like at this point they really have a full understanding of the scale of this.

it doesn't seem like there have been house to house searches or block by block kind of coordinated searches to try to figure out, you know, an actual death toll. it just seems like they're still kind of in the planning stages. or the assessment stages. >> absolutely, anderson. yeah, absolutely, anderson. and what's so terrifying to these people is anecdotally, they have heard stories from people who say i've lost my brother, i've lost my sister, this person slipped under the water, i didn't see them, i didn't find them. yet no confirmation if they're dead or alive. you combine that, as you said, in so many places, they have not seen the government resources, they have not seen search and rescue, they have not seen aid come in. they're wondering what's next. it is an open question the government is grappling with figuring out how best to organize it. the storm hit first thing sunday morning. most people tell me they lost their power saturday night. it is now thursday night here. you know, this government has to

figure out how it's going to coordinate this. and obviously they're beginning to come to grips with what it's going to take. but having been through so many storms and, anderson, i know you covered so many of these unfortunately very tragic events, and it's an open question. why would we stay here? when i was on that island for 24 hours, more people came to the realization, we need to get out and we need to get out now. they were looking for boats privately. they were looking for helicopters privately. anything they can do to get out. >> the prime minister says the national airline is going to start giving free seats to people who want to leave the islands. again, remains to be seen the details on all of this. i'll play that interview in just a moment. i appreciate all your reporting. we'll continue to check in with you. so we'll play the conversation with the prime minister about what could soon be a higher toll and what he calls generational devastation. also later, of all the things to lie about and all the ways to lie about it, president trump again today makes the storm story about himself and the minor blunder that he made, but refuses to acknowledge or

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to rise. just this morning we had a 57-man team from the united states, a search and rescue team, and they expect the death toll to increase. the populous, and we expect that to increase. the island is quite extensive, long, and it's quite a vast area to cover. and the assistant of the search and rescue team would accelerate the process in discovering if there are extra bodies. and we anticipate that there will be more, so we do expect it to increase. >> so how many search and rescue teams are there? >> there is a 57-man team that arrived, yes. >> that's from the united states. >> from the united states. >> reporters are talking to people in nassau who are having trouble, they say, getting clearance from the government to fly into abaco to rescue people.

i'm wondering, at least one person that cnn has spoken to said they have been waiting several days, for an answer four days. what is the process for that? >> well, we have introduced some degree of restriction in terms of flying because we wanted to ensure that those flights that were dealing with humanitarian aid, that were dealing with evacuation and dealing with the situation on ground would have been able to move in and out quite freely as opposed to individuals who were just flying, sight seeing, et cetera. >> right. >> one had to take into consideration that the air terminal in that particular area was down, and a lot of the flying has been based on visibility. and we did not want to take risk of having any mid-air collision and subsequently another disaster to deal with. >> just in terms of -- for people right now who are in abaco who i think the residents there, there are 17,000 --

correct me if i'm wrong, but for the people who have no home, can they get water? are there distribution points? can they get food or -- >> they are setting up distribution points. water and food has been brought in by the royal navy, the united states, and even bahamas government itself. what we have also done, i have given the executive order for bahamas air, our national airline carrier, once the aircraft starts a regular route, it will increase the flight service to both abaco and grand bahama. for the next five days, those individuals who want to come to the capital with family members, we will try to accommodate them with other housing needs. those individuals will be able to fly to the capital free, so the government will absorb that charge -- that cost over the

next five days to try and help and accommodate all those individuals who want to leave to new providence. >> you recently spoke to president trump on the phone. i wonder how that conversation went. what sort of help has he offered? what sort of help would you like the u.s. to offer? >> it was a very good conversation. i was very surprised. he opened the conversation by extending condolence to myself and my family because i just had a brother die just two days ago. so i was dealing with both my brother and the country. so he expressed condolence. and he also expressed condolence to the entire bahamian populace and the united states would be available and be there to assist us throughout this entire ordeal. and i must say that from day

one, united states was in our territory assisting us with all of our needs. had it not been for the united states, we would not have been advanced this far in the entire process. and i'm sure that even though our death numbers we expect to increase, had the united states not come in quickly, aggressively and assist us with the situation, our death numbers would be even more than what would be the final count. >> and just finally, your message tonight, what is it to those who are on abaco, to those who are homeless, to those who are trying to find loved ones, to those watching around the world who are trying to get in contact with their loved ones and would like to help, what is your message? >> well, i would like to send a message especially to those in abaco. it is my intention to visit abaco tomorrow where i will communicate and try to give some reassurance to those in abaco.

the airline bahamas air will fly them out free of charge to the capital, on grand bahama, and saturday i will fly into grand bahama and speak with the grand bahamians and the residents there and reassure them that the government will not dessert them. we will be there with them throughout -- through thick and thin. after all, we one bahamian and we are one nation and we will go together. >> prime minister minnis, i know you have a huge job ahead of you. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we'll have more on hurricane dorian just ahead. chef jose andres is continuing his mission to feed as many as he can as fast as he can in storm ravaged bahamas. we'll talk with him, what he's seen and what he's done. your eyes won't show it. new super stay concealer from maybelline new york. dark circles wiped out full coverage and up to 24-hour wear.

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chef andres aired monday. they are still feeding people in the bahamas. there is no end in sight for their work. chef andres joins me now. you literally just landed in a helicopter from the abaco islands. i know you have teams. where is the biggest need right now? >> well, the need is everywhere. ourselves today, we just reach i think on the north maybe 509,000 meals. we deliver to the heliport we have in a hotel, abaco beach resort right on the edge of the city of marsh harbor. for example, in the hospital was a lot of people two days ago. today my team told me that the hospital is down to only 60 people. the u.s. coast guard is doing an amazing job moving people out of

the islands and their work should be congratulated. i mean, u.s. coast guard, they are the best always no matter where. >> they always do incredible work. >> yes, sir. and they're the first. and, you know, we've been going to some islands, like for example, green turtle cay, 550 people, very close to marsh harbor. when we landed there, we found a community that they were working together thoroughly organized. they have the local volunteer police, local -- firemen, and everybody seemed to be working together. i did the first drop yesterday, 550 sandwiches and 3, 400 pieces of fruit. some water. today we did another drop. i feel good. i feel happy. obviously they began doing a list of all the things they need. every community needs so much. if you keep multiplying for every little island, every

little neighborhood, the aid that has to arrive in the next days is going to be massive. >> i want to ask you about that. it's hard from over here to kind of get a sense of how organized things are at this stage. i just talked to the prime minister and, you know, he said they're assessing stuff. they're going to set up distribution of food and water. it's hard to tell how much is actually, you know, organized and set up and how much is just sort of aspirational at this point. >> well, in these situations, aspiration happens often. you want to believe that there is a plan. sometimes -- we saw it today, you are in the airport. this is what we call odyssey aviation. odyssey aviation, which is very much the private airport, is the one that is handling very much

all the -- so right now it is very quiet. six hours ago it was total chaos. u.s. coast guards, u.s. border patrol, a lot of planes, private planes, some of them for leisure, others going to pick up people. it's been a very long day in this airport with a lot of people waiting for hours to take off or some people, they have not been able to take off at all. they're going to have to be waiting tomorrow. so on that level, yes, this is the third day after the hurricane. it's some -- some kchaos becaus the magnitude, what is going to happen, we have 70,000 people in those two islands, 20,000 in

grand a ba cbaco. with the helicopter we've done more than 10, 12, 13, 14, trips. we always are taking people with us because everybody is using every opportunity they have to leave the island. why? because i do believe the living conditions in that island are going to be very difficult for the next few weeks. >> the prime minister told me tonight that the national airline, they're going to start offering just free flights over the next five days from abaco. i'm not clear how people will find out about that, how that news is being distributed. we'll see exactly what takes place. we hope there is some way to get people off because clearly with that kind of devastation, there's no place to stay. >> i've not been myself to -- in person to the airport, but my teams, they've been doing it. they told me that today they were going to be going to try to see if they did some feeding in the airport, what's happening is a lot of people are waiting at the airport, are waiting at the airport, and some of them i heard are sleeping there.

why? because they are waiting for any plane, any helicopter, any family member that send them something to pick them up. today was the first day that i was able to get some cell signal in abaco in marsh harbor. so when you have communications, things over all means they can be better. in puerto rico we didn't have cell signal for sometimes, many weeks. >> chef jose andres, always appreciate it. thank you so much. thank you, you and your team, for all you're trying to do and all you're doing. coming up next, president trump continuing to focus not with the storm itself on twitter, but what people are saying about one of his false statements about it. keep him honest, ahead.

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we devoted the entire program to what's happening in the bahamas, the u.s., rising death toll in the bahamas, relief efforts, facts about what's happening in bahamas and what people are facing right now. we have devoted nearly all our reporting, in fact, to the situation in the bahamas as well as concerns about the east coast of the u.s. for the next few minutes we're going to talk about something on the face of it is not important compared to what is going on. it's a mistake the president made about the path. it is important in the loss of life and the devastation we're seeing. but to the president it is important and that's why we're

talking about it. it's so important, in fact, he's focused on it repeatedly all week. the president has produced charts and had white house staff work on statements. there is no way to know how much time he's wasted focusing on this while the storm bears down the u.s. and while people in the bahamas are desperate for help. now, since the first of september, other than retweeting hurricane center updates, he's tweeted directly just twice about the bahamas. by contrast today alone, he sent five of his own tweets and one retweet about his erroneous claim on sunday that, quote, alabama will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated. just minutes later the national weather service in birmingham corrected him saying, quote, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. we repeat, no impacts from hurricane dorian will be felt across alabama. that was sunday. sunday morning. so that's where you would hope this whole thing would have ended. a totally inconsequential mistake in the face of a potentially killer storm in the u.s. and a killer storm for a fact in the bahamas. that tweet was on sunday.

by then the storm path had shifted so much that anyone watching knew it was not going to hit alabama, quote, much harder than anticipated as the president tweeted. but the president can't stand being wrong. we know this. he can't stand being corrected. so instead of just forgetting about it, he is continually focusing on this and tweeting about how right he was. yesterday he went beyond even that. >> we thought we'd give you a update on the hurricane. we got lucky in florida, very, very lucky indeed. we had actually our original chart was that it was going to be hit -- hitting florida directly, maybe i could just see that, kevin. it was going to be hitting directly and that would have affected a lot of other states. but that was the original chart. and you see it was going to hit not only florida, but georgia and could have -- was going toward the gulf. that was what we -- what was

originally projected. and it took a right turn and ultimately, hopefully we're going to be lucky. it depends what happens with south carolina and north carolina. but it's heading up the coast, and florida was grazed, mostly wind, and we're going to have a report on that. >> so that map -- remember he started out saying this is an update on the storm, but he's talking about, you know, a tweet he sent out on the projection from a week or six days before that event. so that map he held up is a projection of multiple paths that dorian might take, a projection from last thursday. and, yes, someone has used a black sharpie to draw on alabama as you see right there, an additional projection. not sure where that came from, who drew it, but we know the president uses a black sharpie. it's not part of the projected path of the storm. and again, all of this, what you're seeing, that's from thursday. as you know, hurricane paths are updated every few hours. they change drastically

sometimes. by sunday when the president raised that false alarm about alabama, the storm track had shifted even farther east, even farther away from the state. the white house claimed the president was being updated hourly. but he seemed to think on sunday that alabama was going to get hit harder than anyone thought. this morning he's still tweeting about that to prove that he was right on sunday, which he wasn't. quote, alabama was going to be hit or grazed and then hurricane dorian took a different path up along the east coast. it did, took a different path from thursday to sunday the paths changed. but on sunday the president still thought it was going to hit alabama. he continued this evening when he tweeted out four charts that he seemed to think proves his point, except as you can see on not a single one of them refers to hurricane force winds and again, they're from thursday, not sunday when he sent his tweet about alabama. a lot changes in a hurricane as we all know. then late today president trump personally directed his homeland security advisor, a guy who

probably has a lot of important things to do for, you know, homeland security, rear admiral peter brown, to issue a statement. and while it appears intended to back up the president's claim that he was not mistaken on sunday about alabama, the wording of it is actually very careful. it refers to the briefing on sunday at 12:30 when the president said this. >> i will say the states and it may get a little piece of a great place called alabama, and alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something other than that it could be. >> okay. so very strong winds, he said, in alabama. this is saturday, 12:30, or even something more than that. wow, something more than that. today's statement admiral brown said, and i quote, the statements were based on that morning's hurricane briefing which included the possibility of tropical storm winds in southeastern alabama. you notice he didn't say

anything about something more than that, as the president tweeted hours before. quote, be hit much harder than anticipated. so in addition to that, cnn learned late today the white house called fox news john roberts into the oval office to argue his case shortly after roberts did a live shot debunking the president's claims. this is how the commander in chief spent a good part of the day with the death toll rising in bahamas, risk their lives in the carolinas, good people everywhere donating supplies and expertise, others wondering how they can help, what they can do. the president of the united states spending time making sure no one ever forgets about the one thing in this entire terrible episode that doesn't matter. yes, we are wasting time talking about it, but it's what the president of the united states is wasting his time thinking about and talking about. and that's why we're talking about it, because the president is wasting his time focused on this and talking about it and having his staff run around and

make statements, not to -- doesn't matter to anyone but himself. want to get some perspective now. former republican national chief of staff mike shields, senior political commentator with us, cnn columnist and political analyst kiersten powers. kirsten, it's easy to say why isn't anyone reporting on this? why is the media focused on this? i agree with that, but the media is focused on this to the extent that they are -- and again, we spent most of our time focused on the bahamas and the east coast tonight as all week -- because the president of the united states, the most powerful guy of the world is focused on this, can't let it go, and is putting probably or having somebody else put fictional sharpie marks on projection maps. you know, this is crazy. >> yeah, i mean, i think the problem is that it is news worthy, right? i mean, we have to be careful to not get lulled into this idea that you just look the other way when somebody is behaving in a

very troubling way. and this is troubling because there is a crisis going on in this country, which you're very ably covering right now. and he is, instead, seems to be at least as focused on trying to convince people that something happened that didn't happen rather than just admitting he made a mistake. people make mistakes. and he could have said, you know, i misunderstood in my briefing or i made a mistake. instead he has turned this into some sort of cause. >> he could have even just not even addressed it. fine, he sent out a tweet that was mistaken. who cares. but, you know, because you can argue, well, if he did correct it then people would use that against him and maybe his opponents would. he could have just -- i mean, mike, let me bring you in here. obviously i assume you would, you know, prefer -- well, actually, what do you think about all this? >> i think the president likes being in a situation where he's

in a fight with the media. >> that's true. >> i think the media keeps walking into it. and you and i have talked about this before. i believe in a very strong media. i fear for the status, the way the public views the media right now, i fear for it because our democracy needs it. and the public ratings on their trust in the media goes down and weeks like this are one of the reasons why. and i know you're saying we're only covering it because the president talks about it. but there's obviously another side to that, which is you keep covering it more and more. i'm not saying you personally, you've done a great job -- jose andres, that is's who we should talking to about what's going on in the bahamas. we keep going to the media at large. there is an obsession with it. the media is doing such a disservice and look so petty the way they cover the president even to the point they're saying it's illegal to do this. >> mike, you're focusing on what the people reporting about what the president of the united states is actually saying and doing, commanding his people on

his staff to occupy their times to make these charts and come up with statements and get the guy from homeland security to acknowledge, oh, yes, we mentioned strong winds in alabama on sunday morning. i mean, this is what the president of the united states is focusing his time on. you're saying you don't want reporters actually reporting facts about what the president is doing. you want reporters to be focused elsewhere and just ignore what the president of the united states is spending his time doing in his executive time. i mean -- >> first of all, i think the president -- i don't think we should create the perception this is what -- all he's focused his time on. >> you're right. he plays golf a lot on weekends. he has a lot of executive time. he watches a lot of tv. and yes, he does presidential duties as well. >> look at the twitter feed, right? look at his twitter feed. he sends a disproportionate amount of time on this, and i think -- >> while we're having this interview, almost no time for me to do that.

look, the president of the united states is in a situation room getting briefed on a disaster and this perception gets created as if he's not engaged on this. you just reported that he talked to the prime minister of the bahamas and offered help. >> yeah. >> this is one of the frustrating things, for instance, for me on coverage with puerto rico. no one has been able that i have seen credibly to report that a single request, not one request that the government of puerto rico gave to the white house that they weren't granted. the president is focused on giving them what they want, then the coverage turns into things like what he's tweeting and what his map says. and so i understand reporting on it, right? it's a fact. i get that. the press should do that, they need to cover the president and report on it. but it becomes -- the media does themselves a disservice when they become obsessed with a trivial thing like this. >> it's not an obsession to do -- >> go ahead, kirsten. sorry. >> it's not an obsession to do with one segment on this wisz what you're doing.

i don't think it's fair to call it an obsession. i think when the president of the united states is doing something, let's just play the barack obama game. if barack obama was doing this, i don't think mike shields would just be saying, oh, this is no big deal that he has apparently taken a sharpie out and drawn a circle around something, or that he's repeatedly tweeting about it and we shouldn't care about it. it is the president. i agree we shouldn't be obsessed, but covering it is not an obsession. >> let's leave it there. i don't want to spend too much on it. i appreciate both perspectives. mike shields, kirsten harris as well. a report on the rain and flooding as dorian heads up the carolina coast. shrimp yeah! red lobster's endless shrimp is back for just $15.99. get all the shrimp you want, any way you want 'em. like new sriracha-honey shrimp, savory grilled teriyaki shrimp, classic shrimp scampi and more! red lobster's endless shrimp is $15.99. hurry in. i had no idea that my grandfatherfe changing moment for me. was a federal judge in guatemala.

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step. they get so much rain so fast, they have nowhere to go. and as you know, charleston is a flat city. it is very hard to drain a flat city. it is barely above sea level. the water has nowhere to go in a city like this. >> so what do they do? how do they get rid of it? >> in some cases they can wait. like the high tide brought in it, the low tide will take it out and it goes right back to the river. we caught up with some crews that were manual will he getting rid of the water. they put down a giant hose and pump it out physically out, underneath a neighborhood, underneath the streets and they send it back to whatever water body is nearby. in some cases we saw neighbors trying to use a rake to pull the leaves from the drain system and

trying to do on it their own. it is a real challenge. >> the houses in the neighborhood you're in, it's just a beautiful city. the news continues. i hand it over to chris. >> welcome to prime time. breaking news. we can finally show you parts of grand bahama island that no one has been able to get to until now. our cameras are there and you can see for yourself the maggot of the destruction and why people on the ground there fear news about more fatalities. the fear sfroeds thousands of people missing. rescuers are battling flooding. there are no communications. we told but one young woman's search for family. we have new information on her situation. you'll want to hear it. we're also live in the carolinas where the eye wall of dorian is closing in. and we have a