MIAMI — Authorities in the Bahamas are saying they are receiving preliminary reports of heavy damages in areas being pounded by Hurricane Dorian.

Joy Jibrilu, director general of the Bahamas’ Ministry of Tourism & Aviation, has told reporters there is a huge amount of damage to property and infrastructure from the hurricane crossing the northwest part of the island archipelago. She adds “It’s devastating” but cautions that so far there is “luckily no loss of life reported.”

Video that was described by Jibrilu as being sent by residents from the island of Abaco on Sunday afternoon showed homes with missing chunks of roofing, downed power lines and smashed and overturned cars. One video, she says, showed floodwaters rushing through the streets of an unidentified town at nearly the height of a car’s roof.

At 3 p.m. EDT Sunday, Dorian had top sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph) with gusts topping 220 mph (above 350 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

3:35 p.m.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it helped the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office rescue two people after a wave knocked them off a boat near the Florida coast as Hurricane Dorian churned in waters to the east.

The Coast Guard said in a news release that it received a call from the Indian River Police Department on Sunday that people were in the water near Sebastian Inlet. It launched a vessel and a helicopter to search the area.

The sheriff’s office pulled one of the boaters from the water and confirmed the other was safe.

3:20 p.m.

President Donald Trump is urging everyone in Dorian’s potential path to obey all warnings and evacuation orders from local authorities, saying public safety “must always come first.”

Trump said Sunday that he and members of his staff are receiving frequent updates on the “monstrous” storm “to ensure that we are fully prepared. And we are fully prepared.”

Speaking in Washington at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where he was updated on the storm’s path, Trump said the slow-moving hurricane is one of the largest to ever materialize. He says the expectation is that a large part of the Eastern seaboard will be affected, “some of it very, very severely.”

The Hurricane Center said Dorian’s maximum sustained winds stood Sunday at a monstrous 185 mph (295 kph), with higher gusts. Dorian is located about 185 miles (295 kilometers) east of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump later tweeted: “Pray for the people in the Bahamas. Being hit like never before, Category 5. Almost 200 MPH winds.”