Hurricane Dorian heads for Canada
By DW
09 September 2019 |
12:00 pm
Hurricane Dorian unleashed flooding and heavy winds along the southeast coast of the United States before heading off into the Atlantic. It's current track has the storm reaching Canada's Nova Scotia next.
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