CORRECTS FROM CANAL TO ROAD - A road is flooded during the passing of Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Hurricane Dorian hovered over the Bahamas on Monday, pummeling the islands with a fearsome Category 4 assault that forced even rescue crews to take shelter until the onslaught passes. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. HURRICANE STILL DEVASTATING BAHAMAS
Dorian came to a catastrophic daylong halt over the islands, killing at least five people with 21 injured airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard. People in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were ordered to evacuate before the storm rolls up the Eastern Seaboard.
2. TRAGIC SCUBA DIVING HOLIDAY
At least 25 people were confirmed dead and nine others still missing after a boat fire near an island off the Southern California coast.
3. BREXIT SHOWDOWN AS DEADLINE NEARS
Opposition parties are challenging Prime Minister Boris Johnson's insistence that the U.K. will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 even without a deal.
4. WHERE RISING TENSIONS COULD LEAD TO CONFRONTATIONS
The U.S. Navy is trying to put together a new coalition to counter what it sees as a renewed maritime threat from Iran in the Persian Gulf. Experts say an "accidental escalation" of hostilities is a plausible scenario.
5. NEIGHBOR: GUNMAN WAS 'VIOLENT, AGGRESSIVE'
The man who carried out a deadly West Texas shooting rampage "was on a long spiral of going down," the FBI says.
6. SELL YOUR WEAPONS HERE
New Zealand is buying back tens of thousands of guns from owners. Laws banning military-style semi-automatics were rushed through after a lone gunman killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques in March.
7. CHECKING IF CASH GIVEAWAYS WORK
An experiment testing the impact of "universal basic income," an old idea getting new life thanks to the 2020 presidential race, is underway in a California city.
8. IN SYRIA, RESILIENCE AMID TRAGEDIES
A father, whose loss of 9-month-old twins in a poison gas attack in April 2017 was seen around the world in viral videos, is still facing hardship caused by his country's civil war, now in its ninth year.
9. NO LAUGHING MATTER
Comic actor Kevin Hart's wife says he's "going to be just fine" following a weekend car crash that left him with a major back injury.
10. AVICII'S MUSIC TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH
A benefit concert for suicide prevention featuring the music of the late DJ and producer is being organized in Sweden.
In this photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a dive boat is engulfed in flames after a deadly fire broke out aboard the commercial scuba diving vessel off the Southern California Coast, Monday morning, Sept. 2, 2019. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)
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FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, sailors stand on deck above a hole the U.S. Navy says was made by a limpet mine on the damaged Panama-flagged, Japanese owned oil tanker Kokuka Courageous, anchored off Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, during a trip organized by the Navy for journalists. The U.S. Navy is trying to put together a new coalition of nations to counter what it sees as a renewed maritime threat from Iran. Meanwhile, Iran finds itself backed into a corner and ready for a possible conflict. It stands poised on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, to further break the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Fay Abuelgasim, File)
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Odessa High School students and families remember their 15 year-old classmate Leilah Hernandez Monday Sept. 2, 2019 in Odessa, Texas. Leilah Hernandez, 15, was the youngest victim in the shooting spree that claimed multiple lives on Saturday. Leilah played basketball for Odessa High School, and her classmates have honored her by wearing her jersey number on their cheeks. (Ronald W. Erdrich/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)
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In this Sunday September 1, 2019 photo, Syrian Abdel Hamid al-Yousef, plays with his 11-month-old daughter Aya, at a displaced settlement near the Turkish border called âMokhayyam al-Karamah,â Arabic for âDignity Camp,â near the town of Atmeh, in northern Syria. Al-Yousef lost his baby twins, his wife and 16 other relatives in the poison gas attack that hit Syriaâs Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017. Determined to continue with his life, he remarried, and has an 11-month-old daughter. But tragedy keeps chasing the 31-year-old former shopkeeper as he recently fled a government assault on Idlib and the nonstop bombardment of Khan Sheikhoun. (AP Photo)
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