WEBVTT 00:02.100 --> 00:05.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And let's look at the latest with where Dorian is headed now and some perspective 00:05.100 --> 00:09.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% on just how devastating a hurricane this was for the Bahamas. 00:09.133 --> 00:12.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Ken Graham is the director of the National Hurricane Center. 00:12.966 --> 00:15.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Ken Graham, thank you for joining us again. 00:15.100 --> 00:18.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So, give us the latest information you have on Dorian. 00:18.500 --> 00:23.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% KEN GRAHAM, Director, National Hurricane Center: Judy, it's still moving to the north, stationary 00:23.266 --> 00:24.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% over the Bahamas for so long. 00:24.833 --> 00:26.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It was a devastating situation. 00:26.566 --> 00:29.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It's bad enough to get hit by a Cat 5 hurricane. 00:29.333 --> 00:31.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's even worse to have it sit there. 00:31.433 --> 00:34.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% So, when we saw it starting to move at one mile an hour and now five miles an hour, we're 00:34.900 --> 00:39.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% starting to move northward, get the core of those winds away from the Bahamas, but still 00:39.133 --> 00:42.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% a big impact for Florida and the Carolinas with time. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And what -- how unusual is it that this storm has been sitting in one 00:48.200 --> 00:50.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% place and staying there for so long? 00:50.400 --> 00:54.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% KEN GRAHAM: Yes, it's pretty rare for a strong this strong to do that. 00:54.366 --> 00:56.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It happens on occasion. 00:56.200 --> 00:58.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% But it doesn't happen too often, especially a strong one like this. 00:58.833 --> 01:02.800 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% But when you lose all those steering currents, there's nothing to steer this, and it just 01:02.800 --> 01:05.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% parks, and it just waits for the next system to steer. 01:05.266 --> 01:07.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So that's a devastating situation. 01:07.333 --> 01:12.033 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% Think about 24, 30 hours of Category 5 winds and the battering of the water, and it's just 01:13.100 --> 01:15.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a devastating situation for the Bahamas. 01:15.133 --> 01:19.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And before I ask you about the Bahamas, tell us what you know about or 01:21.800 --> 01:25.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% what you can interpret as you look at where this hurricane may go next. 01:27.066 --> 01:30.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% KEN GRAHAM: Yes, looking at that forecast with time, just right along the coast. 01:30.633 --> 01:35.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And it's interesting, because the core winds have decreased throughout the day. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% But they have expanded. 01:37.100 --> 01:40.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% We have seen the winds, tropical-storm-force winds go from about 120 miles from the center 01:40.633 --> 01:45.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% all the way to 175 miles from the center, so much larger, with time, moving ever so 01:47.033 --> 01:49.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% slowly, 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, still off the Florida coast. 01:49.833 --> 01:52.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% And by the time you get into 2:00 p.m. Thursday, it does speed up. 01:52.800 --> 01:57.766 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% And we have it off the South Carolina coast and also on Friday still moving as a hurricane, 01:59.700 --> 02:02.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% so right along the coast of South Carolina, North Carolina, so still some impacts with 02:02.366 --> 02:05.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% storm surge and winds and some rainfall for the Carolinas. 02:05.266 --> 02:10.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: So important for everybody to pay attention to along that East Coast. 02:10.133 --> 02:12.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But, Ken, I want -- I do want to bring you back to the Bahamas. 02:12.800 --> 02:17.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% It looks as if it's been catastrophic, the damage there. 02:19.800 --> 02:22.433 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% KEN GRAHAM: Yes, making landfall, you think about 180 mile-an-hour with even higher, some 02:22.433 --> 02:25.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% of the gusts over 200 miles an hour, just absolutely devastating. 02:25.400 --> 02:30.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I mean, you think about the surge of up to 23 feet, 30 inches of rain, and the winds 02:32.766 --> 02:35.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% battering the coastline for that long, just absolutely devastating situation, life-threatening 02:35.266 --> 02:37.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% situation. 02:37.266 --> 02:40.466 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% So, when we started seeing that move northward today, it's just relief that we can get at 02:40.466 --> 02:42.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% least the core winds away from the islands. 02:42.533 --> 02:47.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: You said it's unusual for a storm to sit this long in one place. 02:48.700 --> 02:51.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Are those conditions that we are likely to see again? 02:51.866 --> 02:56.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Are these the kinds of atmospheric conditions that can repeat themselves? 02:57.733 --> 02:59.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KEN GRAHAM: Yes, you can. 02:59.633 --> 03:02.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% You go back in history, you can find others that did the same thing. 03:02.200 --> 03:06.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I can think of large storms, Florence moving so slowly. 03:06.033 --> 03:10.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I go back to Betsy in 1965, a very strong major hurricane, slowing down as well. 03:10.833 --> 03:12.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So you can find it in history. 03:12.766 --> 03:15.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% When you lose those steering currents, it's just a dangerous situation. 03:15.166 --> 03:18.766 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% You hope they're open -- over the open waters, but when they're over land, that's where you 03:18.766 --> 03:20.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% get the devastation. 03:20.866 --> 03:24.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: And you do have to look at history when you're looking at these hurricanes. 03:25.500 --> 03:27.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% KEN GRAHAM: Yes, you do. 03:27.466 --> 03:28.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Every one of them are so different. 03:28.833 --> 03:30.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They bring different types of impacts. 03:30.966 --> 03:34.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And if you think about this, bringing the devastation of the Bahamas, and then going 03:34.500 --> 03:38.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% into the future with this path, and you start seeing the storm surge. 03:38.033 --> 03:42.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% This is actually our storm surge forecast for the future, all the way from Florida into 03:42.900 --> 03:45.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Georgia, the Carolinas and even inland. 03:45.266 --> 03:48.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% You get to North Carolina, you can see some of this storm surge go miles inland. 03:48.866 --> 03:53.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, paying close attention, and I know everyone there at the Hurricane 03:53.133 --> 03:55.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Center is as well. 03:55.133 --> 03:58.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Ken Graham, the director of the National Hurricane Center, thank you. 03:58.533 --> 04:00.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% KEN GRAHAM: Thank you.