{"id":14991,"date":"2019-09-03T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T08:41:54","slug":"hurricane-dorian-five-deaths-are-confirmed-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/hurricane-dorian-five-deaths-are-confirmed-in-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dorian: Five deaths are confirmed in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least five people have been killed by Hurricane Dorian as it continues to hit the region. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said the deaths were confirmed at the north-eastern Abaco Islands. Around 13,000 houses are feared to be destroyed or damaged after the second strongest Atlantic hurricane on record.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbassyNassau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USEmbassyNassau<\/a> has begun helping victims of Hurricane <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dorian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dorian<\/a> in <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBahamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBahamas<\/a>. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USCGSoutheast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USCGSoutheast<\/a> sent helicopters to evacuate injured from Abaco, flying back to Nassau for urgent care. Please stay informed from reliable sources, and keep safe. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GOK0pqiY7x\">pic.twitter.com\/GOK0pqiY7x<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 U.S. Embassy Nassau (@USEmbassyNassau) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbassyNassau\/status\/1168733600679890944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hurricane Dorian is still remaining\u00a0 &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; and is currently grades as category three which means \u00a0&#8220;devastating damage will occur&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rescue crews will respond to calls for help as soon as the weather conditions are safe. Dorian is expected to stay in the same place until at least Tuesday morning local mine. It is expected to move close to the Florida east coast on Wednesday evening where it will then move towards Georgia and South Carolina into Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pictures posted on social media show flooding and houses destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A desperate cry for help \ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HurricaneDorian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HurricaneDorian<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Abaco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Abaco<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bahamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bahamas<\/a> Lord please help us <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/874BEsiB8t\">pic.twitter.com\/874BEsiB8t<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 MVP (@mvp242) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mvp242\/status\/1168227588533293056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hurricane Dorian\u2019s destruction in the northwestern Bahamas (Video: Alicia Nesbitt\/ FB) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yyNVZaYAVa\">pic.twitter.com\/yyNVZaYAVa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialJoelF\/status\/1168245986671681538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> Update : Video of the devastation at Marsh Harbour in the Abaco Islands ,<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bahamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bahamas<\/a> due to Hurricane <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dorian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dorian<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJB21YdKvL\">pic.twitter.com\/HJB21YdKvL<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Shark NewsWires (@SharkNewsWires) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharkNewsWires\/status\/1168251396073959425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than 1,300 flights have been cancelled within, to and from the US mostly due to Dorian. At least another 1,000 cancellations are expected on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people have been killed by Hurricane Dorian as it continues to hit the region. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said the deaths were confirmed at the north-eastern Abaco Islands. Around 13,000 houses are feared to be destroyed or damaged after the second strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. @USEmbassyNassau has begun helping victims of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":14951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[1615,1628,1612,1627,98],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-american-news","category-worldwide-news","tag-bahamas","tag-dorian","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-dorian","tag-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}