Dorian has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moves up the Carolinas coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Follow live updates:
Debris left by Hurricane Dorian litters Grand Bahama International Airport on September 4, 2019. YASMIN RIGBY/AFP/Getty Images
Authorities in the Bahamas are hampered by limited access to important resources as they try to respond to the hurricane's damage.on the island of Grand Bahama was devastated by Dorian and for several days could not serve as a staging ground for medical evacuations or emergency aid deliveries. Earlier in the week, the runway had been left littered with debris, with the wreckage of a small passenger plane lying inside the domestic terminal.
"You think of the force required to throw a plane from the runway into a terminal. If anybody was in here, I don't know how they would have survived," said CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann. By Thursday morning, debris had been removed from the runway, residents told Oppmann, but it was unclear whether the airport was back in use.
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Dorian upgraded to major Category 3 hurricane - US forecastersAt 11:00 pm (0300 GMT Thursday), the NHC said Dorian was located 105 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina and moving north at around seven miles per hour approaching the US coast.
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Hurricane Dorian has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it threatens landfall in the CarolinasDorian 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.
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Dorian downgraded to Category 2 hurricane but is expected to remain powerfulDorian weakens slightly to a Category 2 storm but is still expected to be a powerful hurricane as the center moves near or over the coasts of South and North Carolina. Follow live updates:
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