TAPPER: Hurricane Dorian is closing in on the Carolinas and already flooding the East Coast of the U.S. Let's get right to CNN's Athena Jones. She's in Charleston, South Carolina. Athena, how is the situation there?</s>ATHENA JONES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Jake. Well, historic downtown Charleston may have escaped the worst predictions when it comes to flooding, but there's still a lot of debris, a lot of downed power lines, downed tree branches. Charleston Police are warning folks to go ahead and still stay home. They just recently sent out a tweet of a truck with a branch -- a tree that had fallen on it. Luckily that person wasn't badly injured. But they're saying look, people still have to come out, clear debris, repair these downed power lines, repair these traffic lights. And so they want folks to still stay tight. But as I said, those storm predictions -- those storm surge predictions so far have not panned out.</s>TAPPER: All right, Athena Jones, stay safe. Thank you. Our coverage on CNN continues right now. Thanks for watching.
Powerful Winds, Heavy Rain Battering South Carolina Coast.