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Now a Category 4 Storm, Slow-Moving Dorian Batters Bahamas, Tracks Toward U.S.

Hurricane Dorian has sustain maximum winds of 155 mph. Hurricane conditions are expected on the east coast of Florida by late Monday or early Tuesday, along with "life-threatening" storm surge levels.
Uprooted trees, fallen power lines and the debris from damaged houses scatter on a road as Hurricane Dorian sweeps through Marsh Harbour, Bahamas.

Updated at 11:41 p.m. EST

Slow-moving Hurricane Dorian continues to produce "catastrophic hurricane conditions" as it pummels Grand Bahama Island. It has now been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane, according to the latest National Hurricane Center advisory.

That gives little comfort to those enduring the powerful storm, given it is crawling west at 1 mph, a pace slower than most people can walk.

Dorian's maximum sustained winds were near 165 miles per hour in the NHC's previous advisory, but it now

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