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Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force

The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Island, Bahamas and North Carolina is now bringing hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada.

A man walks in the rain on Main street in Moncton, N.B. as a result of hurricane Dorian as a result of hurricane Dorian pounding the Atlantic Provinces with heavy rain and winds on Saturday September 7, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marc Grandmaison
A man walks in the rain on Main street in Moncton, N.B. as a result of hurricane Dorian as a result of hurricane Dorian pounding the Atlantic Provinces with heavy rain and winds on Saturday September 7, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marc GrandmaisonRead moreMarc Grandmaison / AP
    by Associated Press, The Associated Press
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TORONTO — The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Island, Bahamas and North Carolina is now bringing hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada.

Dorian has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people, toppled a huge construction crane and ripped roofs off apartments in the city of Halifax.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the post-tropical cyclone was centered about 55 miles (90 kilometers) east-northeast of Anticosti Island Sunday morning and had top sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph). It was heading to the north-northwest, roughly up the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Meanwhile, authorities in the Bahamas were scrambling to find shelter for tens of thousands left homeless by a storm that struck with Category 5 force.

The storm is blamed for at least 49 deaths.