Hurricane Dorian weather: Tracking Hurricane Dorian - Where is hurricane now - NOAA latest - Express.co.uk

After smashing into the Bahamas and lingering over the islands, unleashing torrential rain, hurricane-force winds and deadly storm surge for more than 24 hours, hurricane Dorian is now travelling along the southeastern US coast. According to poweroutage.us more than 167,000 people are without power across Georgia and South Carolina, with the majority of outages in the latter state. Torrential rain could cause deadly flash floods, and residents have been urged to heed evacuation warnings.

As of NOAA’s latest update at 2am EDT (7am BST) Dorian was producing wind gusts near hurricane-force over eastern North Carolina.

The hurricane was located around 30 miles south-southwest of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and approximately 55 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Dorian is moving toward the northeast near 15mph and is packing wind speeds of 90mph with higher gusts.

On the forecast track, the centre of Dorian will move near or over the coast of North Carolina during the next several hours.

The centre should move to the southeast of extreme southeastern New England tonight and Saturday morning, and then across Nova Scotia late Saturday or Saturday night.

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This makes Dorian a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Rainfall is impacting the coast of the Carolinas, with hurricane conditions likely over the area later today.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the centre of the storm and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km).

Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane over the next few days as it tracks northward along the southeastern US coast.

Read More:Hurricane Dorian LIVE radar: Where is Hurricane Dorian?

According to NOAA’s latest update, “tropical storm conditions are currently affecting portions of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.

“Hurricane conditions are expected along portions of the South Carolina coast later this morning.

“Tropical storm conditions will begin along the coast of North Carolina within the next couple of hours, with hurricane conditions beginning later today.

“Tropical storm conditions are possible over portions of southeastern Massachusetts by late Friday or early Saturday.”

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Summary of storm warnings and watches in effect

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for

• Wrightsville Beach NC to Poquoson VA
• Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds
• Neuse and Pamlico Rivers

Hampton Roads

• A Hurricane Warning is in effect for
• South Santee River to the North Carolina/Virginia border
• Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for

• Nova Scotia

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for

• North Carolina/Virginia border to Fenwick Island DE
• Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point southward
• Tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island
• Woods Hole to Sagamore Beach MA
• Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard MA

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for

• Prince Edward Island
• Magdalen Islands
• Fundy National Park to Shediac.
• Francois to Boat Harbour.

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2019-09-06 07:29:30Z
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime strong man, dead at 95 - CNN

Rumors had swirled around the health of the ex-president, who spent months in a hospital in Singapore earlier this year. Details of what ailed him were a closely guarded secret.

Mugabe -- who infamously claimed that "only God" could ever remove him from office -- was deposed in a coup in 2017, when members of his own party turned against him after he dismissed then vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa to make way for his wife, Grace.

Mnangagwa would go on to become Zimbabwe's next president.

"It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe," tweeted Mnangagwa on Friday.

"Cde Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace."

Once touted internationally as the hope of his nation, Mugabe left office with a grim legacy, after waging a campaign of oppression and violence to maintain power, and driving into poverty a country once known as the breadbasket of southern Africa.

He began his political career as a leader in the quest for the independence of Zimbabwe -- then known as Rhodesia -- and was regularly compared to South Africa's venerated freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.

As a revolutionary guerrilla leader, he fought white-minority rule and spent years in jail as a political prisoner.

After 10 years in prison, he earned university degrees in education, economics and law from the University of London. In the mid-70s, he assumed leadership of the political wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU-PF), a militant liberation movement based in Mozambique.

From there, he helped orchestrate an armed resistance against white rule, emerging as a war hero both at home and abroad when the conflict ended in 1979.

He became the first prime minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe after elections in February 1980.

Articulate and smartly dressed, Mugabe came to power commanding the respect of a nation. He had a strong head start, inheriting a country with a stable economy, solid infrastructure and vast natural resources.

But the descent into tyranny didn't take long.

His hardline policies drove the country's flourishing economy to disintegrate after a program of land seizures from white farmers, and agricultural output plummeted and inflation soared.

By 1983, it became clear that Mugabe's administration would be merciless to any one opposing his rule. He presided over forces that carried out a string of massacres in opposition strongholds, and the country's Fifth Brigade is believed to have killed up to 20,000 people, mostly supporters of Mugabe's main political rival.

As the country was plunged into economic ruin, Mugabe and his wife faced fierce criticism for leading lavish lifestyles.

He celebrated his 85th birthday with a lavish party that cost a reported $250,000, even as the country remained in an economic and health crisis. He continued to hold such birthday events annually, last year spending a reported $800,000 and celebrating in a region suffering drought and food shortages.

He repeatedly rebuffed repeated calls to step down, insisting he would only leave office when his "revolution" was complete.

"This is a man who had so much to offer to Zimbabweans, but he didn't, he focused on himself," said Trevor Ncube, one of the country's most powerful publishers.

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Abaco Islands of Bahamas ravaged by Hurricane Dorian - CNN

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2019-09-05 16:42:50Z
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's brother quits government over Brexit - NBC News

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's younger brother announced Thursday that he was quitting the government and standing down as a member of Parliament, becoming the latest casualty in the war over whether and how the U.K. leaves the European Union.

"In recent weeks I’ve been torn between family loyalty and the national interest," Johnson, who was a minister in his brother's Cabinet, said on Twitter. "It’s an unresolvable tension and time for others to take on my roles as MP and minister."

The prime minister's plans to take the U.K. out of the European "do or die" on Oct. 31 were dealt two significant blows Wednesday as lawmakers passed a bill forcing him to request another extension and then blocked his attempt to call a snap election.

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Jo Johnson's resignation comes just days after the prime minister expelled 21 lawmakers from his own ruling Conservative Party after they voted against his Brexit plans.

The backlash against the Boris Johnson's hardline approach to the rebels — including Winston Churchill's grandson and a former finance minister — has led to growing discontent within the ranks of his party.

Boris Johnson had hoped to rally fellow Conservatives around his plans to leave the bloc at the end of October with or without a divorce deal. But the week's events in Parliament have left him battling to restore his authority.

And Jo Johnson stepping down will only make matters worse for the prime minister, said Anand Menon, a professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King's College London university.

"Obviously it feeds into a narrative that is around about the government being untrustworthy because it can be spun that even his own brother doesn’t trust him," he said. “That wording — family loyalty versus the national interest — that seems to be saying that his brother isn’t acting in the national interest. That’s quite a big deal.”

The prime minister continued his push for a new election Thursday to solve the country’s latest Brexit impasse, accusing opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of cowardice for opposing the plan.

Corbyn's Labour Party and other opposition lawmakers look set to oppose any election until Wednesday's bill to try and block what many fear would be a damaging "no deal" Brexit becomes law.

Jo Johnson, who voted in the June 2016 referendum to stay in the EU, also quit former Prime Minister Theresa May’s government over her handling of Brexit.

He has previously backed the idea of a second referendum on the issue. He was brought back into government as an education minister when his older brother took power in July after May stood down.

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Max Burman is a news and homepage editor for NBC News.

Mo Abbas is a London-based multimedia producer for NBC News.

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2019-09-05 10:52:00Z
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Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it threatens landfall in the Carolinas - CNN

The storm had lost some of its strength after hitting the Bahamas. But it intensified again into a Category 3 storm Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

TRACK THE STORM

The city of Charleston was already experiencing flooding Thursday morning, Charleston County Emergency Management told CNN. Dorian is 80 miles south-southeast of the city, the National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. advisory.

Dorian is expected to continue moving closer to the coast of South Carolina throughout the day and then along or over the coast of North Carolina Thursday night into Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

'Just stay put ... until this passes,' mayor says

More than 1 million people in parts of South Carolina and North Carolina are under mandatory evacuation orders, forecasters said.

The South Carolina cities of Charleston, North Charleston and Mount Pleasant are under a flash flood warning until 10:15 a.m. ET, the National Weather Service in Charleston said Thursday morning.

Hurricane Dorian is expected to bring between 15-20 inches of rain along the South Carolina coast, including downtown Charleston, through Thursday afternoon, meteorologist Steve Rowley with the National Weather Service in Charleston office told CNN.

The storm's eye wall is forecast to pass less than 40 miles from the Charleston County coast, he said.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, and the hurricane center warned of "life-threatening storm surge and dangerous winds, regardless of the exact track of Dorian's center."

As conditions began to deteriorate in Charleston early Thursday, emergency management officials requested that citizens shelter in place, the Charleston Police Department said on Twitter.

Charleston mayor John Tecklenburg said that he wants the city to be a "ghost town" during the storm.

"Just stay put for another six or eight hours until this passes, and then we're going to clean up and get back to normal quickly," Tecklenburg said.

More than 167,000 customers were without power in South Carolina and Georgia Thursday morning, according to poweroutage.us. The bulk of those were in South Carolina, where 154,000 customers were in the dark.

State, federal and local agencies at the State Emergency Operations Center are working together to prepare evacuation and recovery efforts in anticipation of Dorian, according to a tweet from the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.

Hurricane warning extends to Carolina-Virginia border

A hurricane warning is in effect from north of the Savannah River up to the North Carolina-Virginia border.

In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a mandatory evacuation order for six coastal counties.

"We need people to evacuate," he said. "This is not a storm to mess with."

A state of emergency has been declared for 21 Georgia counties.

More than 9,1000 customers along coastal Georgia were without power Thursday, with the bulk of the outages around the Savannah area, according to Georgia Power.

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Virginia also declared a state of emergency Tuesday, expecting possible flooding, storm surge, damaging winds and prolonged power outages, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management said.

"Current predictions indicate that it may affect parts of Virginia," Gov. Ralph Northam said. "I am declaring a state of emergency to ensure that localities and communities have the appropriate level of assistance, and to coordinate the Commonwealth's response to any potential impact from Hurricane Dorian."

Dorian is expected to remain a hurricane over the next few days, the hurricane center said Thursday morning.

An unpredictable path

Before its march toward the Carolinas, Dorian had been forecast to strike Florida the hardest. But it changed paths, wreaked havoc on the Bahamas and has so far not caused significant damage along Florida's coast.

Although the state avoided a direct hit, three Florida residents died in incidents related to storm preparation, including a 55-year-old Ocoee man who fell while trimming trees around his house, local officials reported.

A second storm brewing

As Dorian spins along the southeastern US coast, another storm is churning in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, was located 825 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands Thursday morning, moving at 8 mph, the NHC said.

The storm is not expected to strengthen over the next couple days and, but could slowly intensify by the weekend, the hurricane center said.

CNN's Eric Levenson, Joe Sutton, Athena Jones, Michelle Krupa and Monica Garrett contributed to this report.

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Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it threatens landfall in the Carolinas - CNN

The storm had lost some of its strength after hitting the Bahamas. But it intensified again into a Category 3 storm Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

TRACK THE STORM

The city of Charleston was already experiencing flooding Thursday morning, Charleston County Emergency Management told CNN. Dorian is 80 miles south-southeast of the city, the National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. advisory.

Dorian is expected to continue moving closer to coast of South Carolina throughout the day and then along or over the coast of North Carolina Thursday night into Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Mandatory evacuations in the Carolinas

More than 1 million people in parts of South Carolina and North Carolina are under mandatory evacuation orders, forecasters said.

The South Carolina cities of Charleston, North Charleston and Mount Pleasant are under a flash flood warning until 10:15 a.m. ET, the National Weather Service in Charleston said Thursday morning.

Hurricane Dorian is expected to bring between 15-20 inches of rain along the South Carolina coast through Thursday afternoon, including downtown Charleston, meteorologist Steve Rowley with the National Weather Service in Charleston office told CNN.

The storm's eye wall is expected to pass less than 40 miles from the Charleston County coast, he said.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, and the hurricane center warned of "life-threatening storm surge and dangerous winds, regardless of the exact track of Dorian's center."

As conditions began to deteriorate in the city of Charleston early Thursday, emergency management officials requested that citizens shelter in place, the Charleston Police Department said on Twitter.

More than 167,000 customers were without power in South Carolina and Georgia Thursday morning, according to poweroutage.us. The bulk of those were in South Carolina, where 154,000 customers were in the dark.

State, federal and local agencies at the State Emergency Operations Center are working together to prepare evacuation and recovery efforts in anticipation of Dorian, according to a tweet from the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.

Hurricane warning extends to the Carolina-Virginia border

A hurricane warning is in effect from north of the Savannah River up to the North Carolina-Virginia border.

In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a mandatory evacuation order for six coastal counties.

"We need people to evacuate," he said. "This is not a storm to mess with."

A state of emergency has been declared for 21 Georgia counties.

More than 9,1000 customers along coastal Georgia were without power Thursday, with the bulk of the outages around the Savannah area, according to Georgia Power.

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Virginia also declared a state of emergency Tuesday, expecting possible flooding, storm surge, damaging winds and prolonged power outages, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management said.

"Current predictions indicate that it may affect parts of Virginia," Gov. Ralph Northam said. "I am declaring a state of emergency to ensure that localities and communities have the appropriate level of assistance, and to coordinate the Commonwealth's response to any potential impact from Hurricane Dorian."

Dorian is expected to remain a hurricane over the next few days, the hurricane center said Thursday morning.

An unpredictable path

Before its march toward the Carolinas, Dorian had been forecast to strike Florida the hardest. But it changed paths, wreaked havoc on the Bahamas and has so far not caused significant damage along Florida's coast.

Although the state avoided a direct hit, three Florida residents died in incidents related to storm preparation, including a 55-year-old Ocoee man who fell while trimming trees around his house, local officials reported.

A second storm brewing

As Dorian spins along the southeastern US coast, another storm is churning in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, was located 825 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands Thursday morning, moving at 8 mph, the NHC said.

The storm is not expected to strengthen over the next couple days and, but could slowly intensify by the weekend, the hurricane center said.

CNN's Eric Levenson, Joe Sutton, Athena Jones, Michelle Krupa and Monica Garrett contributed to this report.

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2019-09-05 10:05:00Z
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Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it threatens landfall in the Carolinas - CNN

The storm had lost some of its strength after hitting the Bahamas. But it intensified again into a Category 3 storm Wednesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

TRACK THE STORM

The city of Charleston was already experiencing flooding Thursday morning, Charleston County Emergency Management told CNN. Dorian is 80 miles south-southeast of the city, the National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. advisory.

Dorian is expected to continue moving closer to coast of South Carolina throughout the day and then along or over the coast of North Carolina Thursday night into Friday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Mandatory evacuations in the Carolinas

More than 1 million people in parts of South Carolina and North Carolina are under mandatory evacuation orders, forecasters said.

The South Carolina cities of Charleston, North Charleston and Mount Pleasant are under a flash flood warning until 10:15 a.m. ET, the National Weather Service in Charleston said Thursday morning.

Hurricane Dorian is expected to bring between 15-20 inches of rain along the South Carolina coast through Thursday afternoon, including downtown Charleston, meteorologist Steve Rowley with the National Weather Service in Charleston office told CNN.

The storm's eye wall is expected to pass less than 40 miles from the Charleston County coast, he said.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, and the hurricane center warned of "life-threatening storm surge and dangerous winds, regardless of the exact track of Dorian's center."

As conditions began to deteriorate in the city of Charleston early Thursday, emergency management officials requested that citizens shelter in place, the Charleston Police Department said on Twitter.

More than 106,000 customers were without power Thursday morning in South Carolina. Dominion Energy said 64,000 customers were in the dark along the South Carolina coast.

State, federal and local agencies at the State Emergency Operations Center are working together to prepare evacuation and recovery efforts in anticipation of Dorian, according to a tweet from the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.

Hurricane warning extends to the Carolina-Virginia border

A hurricane warning is in effect from north of the Savannah River up to the North Carolina-Virginia border.

In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp issued a mandatory evacuation order for six coastal counties.

"We need people to evacuate," he said. "This is not a storm to mess with."

A state of emergency has been declared for 21 Georgia counties.

More than 9,1000 customers along coastal Georgia were without power Thursday, with the bulk of the outages around the Savannah area, according to Georgia Power.

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Virginia also declared a state of emergency Tuesday, expecting possible flooding, storm surge, damaging winds and prolonged power outages, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management said.

"Current predictions indicate that it may affect parts of Virginia," Gov. Ralph Northam said. "I am declaring a state of emergency to ensure that localities and communities have the appropriate level of assistance, and to coordinate the Commonwealth's response to any potential impact from Hurricane Dorian."

Dorian is expected to remain a hurricane over the next few days, the hurricane center said Thursday morning.

An unpredictable path

Before its march toward the Carolinas, Dorian had been forecast to strike Florida the hardest. But it changed paths, wreaked havoc on the Bahamas and has so far not caused significant damage along Florida's coast.

Although the state avoided a direct hit, three Florida residents died in incidents related to storm preparation, including a 55-year-old Ocoee man who fell while trimming trees around his house, local officials reported.

A second storm brewing

As Dorian spins along the southeastern US coast, another storm is churning in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, was located 825 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands Thursday morning, moving at 8 mph, the NHC said.

The storm is not expected to strengthen over the next couple days and, but could slowly intensify by the weekend, the hurricane center said.

CNN's Eric Levenson, Joe Sutton, Athena Jones, Michelle Krupa and Monica Garrett contributed to this report.

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