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CHARLOTTE, N.C.--More than 24 hours after Hurricane Dorian arrived, Ocracoke -- one of North Carolina's coziest, most serene coastal destinations -- remained partially underwater and reliant on the assistance of emergency response crews.

Government officials and volunteers on Saturday used a ferryboat to transport food, drinking water and fuel ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Emergency crews were bringing food and fresh water to Ocracoke on Saturday, after Hurricane Dorian left the island isolated, without safe drinking water, electricity or ferry service.

Hyde County, which includes Ocracoke, was using a ferry to bring generators, water and enough food for 1,100 people, according to a Facebook ...Read more

As relief efforts ramp up Saturday for the hurricane-ravaged islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, authorities reported that at least 43 people have died in the Bahamas -- though the number is expected to rise with hundreds of people still missing.

Health Minister Duane Sands confirmed the death toll from Hurricane Dorian late Friday.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Friday night suggested that cruise ships provide shelter for Bahamians left homeless by Hurricane Dorian.

"The @USCG, @fema, and all others, along with other countries that have been helping, have been asked to move people in the badly hit sections of the Bahamas to other sections of the Bahamas that were...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has requested "airlift and logistics support" from the Defense Department in its urgent support effort for the Bahamas, McClatchy has learned.

The U.S. Agency for International Development formally made the request of the Pentagon on Friday afternoon after conducting aerial and on-the-ground assessments of...Read more

GRAND BAHAMA, The Bahamas -- With the death toll rising to 30 across the islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, relief efforts continued Friday as a Florida cruise ship arrived with tons of supplies and authorities worked feverishly to find bodies, reach obliterated neighborhoods and treat victims of Hurricane Dorian.

The situation on the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Hundreds of people are trapped on the Outer Banks island of Ocracoke in the wake of Hurricane Dorian's landfall Friday morning, says North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.

Unconfirmed totals report as many as 800 people are on the storm-battered island -- and they are being warned to get to the highest point in their home as storm ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After nearly a week of paralleling the U.S. East Coast, the eye of Category 1 Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Outer Banks off North Carolina, the National Hurricane Center said Friday morning.

Landfall came at Cape Hatteras at 8:35 a.m., after hours of different parts of the barrier islands falling within the edges of ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Hurricane Dorian's right-hand turn away from Florida's east coast spared the state extensive damage from the powerful storm.

But it's also Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' shift in style away from the storm response of his predecessor, now-U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, that is drawing praise from disaster experts as the state enters ...Read more

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Blustery wind and sideways rain began to lash the low-lying coast of South and North Carolina on Thursday as Hurricane Dorian churned off shore, downing power lines and stately live oak trees, spawning tornadoes and threatening hundreds of thousands of coastal residents with intense flooding.

After pounding the Bahamas as a ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Hurricane Dorian began pounding South Carolina overnight with increasing winds and rain, proving experts wrong after days of forecasts predicting the storm would slowly weaken as it reached the Outer Banks off North Carolina.

About 200,000 people were without power from Hilton Head to Charleston, S.C., Thursday morning. ...Read more