The storm has been downgraded to category 4, but is still described as being ‘extremely dangerous’Hurricane Dorian: five dead and 13,000 houses severely damaged in Bahamas – live updatesAs Hurricane Dorian continued to pummel the northern Bahamas on Monday, the south-eastern United States was bracing for the impending storm.Though the slow-moving, powerful storm was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 hurricane, the second most powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said the hurricane was still “extremely dangerous”, with winds of up to 150mph, extending up to 45 miles outward from the eye. Continue reading...