Dorian hits the Carolinas after leaving Charleston flooded

• Dorian. 20 confirmed dead and "numerous bodies floating": Hurricane Dorian leaves in Bahamas an "unprecedented devastation"
• Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian devastates the Abaco Islands in northwestern Bahamas, with winds of 300 km / h

Dorian was still threatening the east coast of the United States on his way through the Carolinas region on Thursday, weakened in a category two hurricane that caused great distress in the people of Georgia and left severe flooding in the city of Charleston. A storm that still does not touch land, while in the Bahamas the number of deaths has already risen to twenty as bodies appear in rescue efforts.

"So far we have twenty dead confirmed but we hope there will be more," said Bahamas Prime Minister. Hubert Minnis, in a press conference in which he talked about the great suffering that the inhabitants of Abacus and Grand Bahama are experiencing, the two islands most punished by Dorian who were still on Thursday without electricity or running water and where the first began to report looting

The authorities recognized riots at different points and warned that the full weight of the law will fall on those responsible. "The citizens of the Bahamas do not deserve this while facing an unprecedented national tragedy," said Minnis, who revealed that the international community is already mobilizing after talking with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Prime Minister of Canada. Justin Trudeau

The magnitude of the damage caused by Hurricane Dorian as it passes through the Bahamas is still very difficult to quantify, but the images taken from the air show a catastrophe that will take months - or even years - until normality can be restored. For now, the priority remains to rescue the thousands affected, many of them still trapped in underwater areas.

According to the latest bulletin of the National Hurricane Center, after moving away from Florida and Georgia during Wednesday night, Dorian continued on Thursday weakened as a category two hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour, dangerously approaching the Coasts of South Carolina heading to North Carolina, where it was not ruled out that it could touch land in the next few hours.

The neighbors of Charleston, the largest city in South Carolina, woke up in great floods, which at some points exceeded one and a half meters of water, and the authorities confirmed that more than 200,000 homes were left without power throughout the state. And in North Carolina, where Dorian could impact at any time, the presence of a tornado was also reported on the outskirts of Willmington.

While the inhabitants of the Carolinas continue to look sideways at the predictions of the CNH, Donald Trump caused stupor with a moment that, as anecdotal as it may seem, is still worrying. It all started on Sunday, when the president said Dorian could affect the state of Alabama. The message had to be denied by the experts, but he has continued to insist in recent days.

Through his Twitter account he published that this state could also suffer the impact of Dorian, something that nobody knows where it came from because Alabama has never been in the path of the hurricane. Almost immediately the National Meteorological Service (NWS) in Birmingham had to go out to deny it. "Alabama will not see any Dorian impact. We repeat, no Dorian impact will be felt in Alabama."

Trump did not seem to be very happy with the official denial and on Wednesday he received the media in the Oval Office to discuss the evolution of the hurricane and comment on the preparations that are being made. It was then that he drew a map of Dorian's trajectory that suspiciously appeared a black line painted with a marker on the state of Alabama.

Beyond the obvious manipulation, which puts Trump's inability to admit mistakes on the table again, the problem is that what he has done - evidently it was not him but someone from his team in the White House - could be something illegal. In the United States, publishing weather forecasts that contradict the version of official agencies is a federal crime punishable by fines and up to 90 days in jail in the worst case.

Images of the same map used by Trump circulate on social networks, but the version published by the National Hurricane Center on August 29, without the area drawn in black. "Alabama was going to be hit or grazed and then Hurricane Dorian took a different course (to the east coast). The fake news knows it very well. That's why it's the fake news!" The president insisted on Thursday on Twitter.

"I am really worried about him, what has happened is literally pathetic," said Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg in statements to the CNN television network. "I don't know if it was necessarily he who took out the pen and changed the map or if it was one of his assistants who felt the need to protect his ego. No matter how it happened, it's really very sad," he said.

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