paula newton, cnn, marsh harbour. >> all right, we have some new information, too, since paula newton filed that report. she's on the phone with us right now. paula, what do you have? >> we're going through the streets of marsh harbour and we saw the temporary morgue that they have set up and just spoke to three morticians who have been hired by the government. look, they're trying to do the job they need to do which is recover the bodies of the victims. they say that they're still waiting to work, in their words. so, we saw a team come in with at least two bodies on a truck. they are doing the best they can and we also spoke to a canine unit from the immigration department said the bahama government and they're also, obviously they tried to make the recovery effort and tried to get the victims' bodies. fred, in places like the mud an old farm field that they use close to the port here, unfortunately, that's where they don't know how many people died in that area. it was a poorer neighborhood. the homes were flimsy. when i walked by it today, as i know our gary tuchman has, as well. t

our paula newton reporting there. so let's get the latest on hurricane dorian's track.again to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us from the international weather center. so pedram, what are you seeing? >> you know, it's getting uncomfortably close to some of the regions across the coastal area of the carolinas. wind gusts expected to push towards hurricane strength within the next 30 minutes to an hour across places like charleston, places like around savannah as well. you'll notice as the storm really closes towards land, 6:00, 7:00, 5/8 a.m., we think these gusts could exceed 80 miles an hour in charleston. that's ushering in a significant amount of water. storm surge right toward these communities. the storm real closes in on its approach to landfall here we think some time into the overnight hours of thursday and friday. places such as moorhead city, cape hatteras, 70 up to 115 miles per hour once the storm cruises out of here. with it we're going to have significant coastal erosion and storm surge damage as well. notice very broad reaching feature here,

paula newton is in nassau, she spent the night in one of the hardest hit communities. here is paula moments ago for us. >> this storm defied description. they're telling us, as bad as those pictures are, they went through the equivalent of a 36 hour horror movie. they were dodging projectiles flying out of the sky from debris in people's homes, they were pulling mattresses off their beds to hold in doors and windows and garages that were coming over on top of them. they cannot even describe what they have been through. >> i'm from tampa. i want my family in the states to know we're okay. it's not justus -- everybody's hurting, we're not any worse than anybody else. everybody is hurting. and we thank god for life. we thank god for each other and for life. through it all, god is good. >> you were with your family when you went through the storm? >> yes. yes. >> you have two children. >> yes, we will be okay. >> do you have children here with you. >> my grandson. my husband. >> i think i met your daughter christine? >> yes, yes. >> what was it like to ride out the storm.

paula newton made it to abaco and saw the unimaginable power of nature.here's her exclusive report. >> reporter: everywhere you look on abaco on these islands you see destruction everywhere. the terror that people went through for several days here, they really find themselves speechless to even describe it to us. when you look at the debris, you can understand what they're talking about. this is someone's living room. they describe pieces of their ceiling, their roof, any of their appliances, any of their belongings coming at them as projectiles. they're talking about the force of wind that was like multiple tornados touching down. you can see what's happened here. you've got everything, debris everywhere. this is as people were wondering when the storm was going to end. everyone here was fearing for their lives, wondering what would happen next. they were completely cut off from all communication and now they're left with this destruction. people are thankful for their lives, and yet they understand the horror of what they just went through will be with

paula newton, cnn, nassau. >> of course so many islands in the bahamas were hit by this storm. for more about it, i want to bring in sam tisher. he's the founder and chief officer at an organization that works to restore and repair damaged and dying reefs. he joins me live from freeport in the bahamas. sam, thanks so much for joining us. we are sure that you've been through a lot. what can you tell us about what you experienced and what is the situation there in freeport for many of the people around you? >> well, i and my friends who i stayed with fortunately were very safe during the storm. that cannot be said for most other folks. there was catastrophic flooding, wind damage, storm surge that ripped across freeport and all across the island. we've been able to start getting out efforts. the coast guard was here rescuing people with urgent medical needs via helicopter, but we were out today -- yesterday we tried to get to the roads, they were too flooded. today we teamed up with a group called bahamas adventures. they had kind of an off-road safari vehicle. our friends luke a

paula newton on the ground. thank you very much for that report. joining us now, general counsel here in washington, theo neely. thanks for coming in. deepest condolences to you and all of the people of the bahamas. official death toll is 20. but as you heard from paula, that could go up dramatically. >> sadly those numbers probably will go up. last count we heard was 23. minister of health in the bahamas indicated the number now reached 23. >> 23. that's the official -- >> that's the official according to minister of health. >> what about the people that are still unaccounted for or missing? >> so that's why the search and rescue team is in place, going door to door, house to house, making sure before we give nu s numbers, we have to be sensitive to families until we release other numbers. >> are people trapped in homes? >> i'm not sure at this point. we know the prime minister went to grand bahama yesterday for evaluation, still doing assessments on the ground. we know people are in need, we're getting aid to them quick as we can. >> who is helpi

paula newton is in the air headed there right now. she spoke with cnn international moments ago before taking off. listen to what heshe's hearing from reporting on the ground. >> these families are desperate. we are now on day four without having any contact. i'm here with family members who have text messages on their phones from loved ones from sunday that read only alive now. they do not know if anyone is left in terms of family members, what's left of their homes. they've seen the pictures of devastation as well, and they are desperate to get there. you can imagine as well the big aid effort ongoing. we're here with u.s. coast guard and bahamian military, all trying to get to the abaco islands to see what's needed. the hard work is yet to come. there are reports of at least dozens, perhaps hundreds injured, critically ill, and of course the issue of food and water as well. it's hard to get an estimate of exactly how many people are on the abaco islands at the time. perhaps as many as 25,000. i can tell you anecdotally just from me

paula newton has more from freeport. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. the number is staggering. 70,000 people left homeless because of hurricane dorian in the bahamas. the issue is to get the aid to those people. as we discussed, so many of the islands aobliterated. this is about long-term care. it will take a lot to get a lot of the people back on their feet. the other issue is the death toll. we've seen dozens of search and rescue teams. they have canines. they have portable morgues and morticians at the ready. this will be painstaking work. they don't know what happened to their family members. they fear their loved ones will never be found. and add to that, the confusion, about who is missing and where they are. the idea they have to identify all of the victims will be a very monumental challenge for this country. christine? dave? >> thank you very much for that. >>> parliament says downing street abused its power. will the european union grant an extension? next. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site.

. >> and cnn's paula newton is in the bahamas. she has more on the relief effort. >> reporter: we knew the numbers would be staggering. 70,000 people homeless in the bahamas. that's a full quarter of the population. how do you deal with in? we're in nassau with a lot of the aid prepositioned. it's more than food and shelter. it could be people needing these things for months, perhaps years. some of the infrastructure has been taken to nothing. at issue is the death toll. the government has warned us it will rise dramatically. we've seen the temporary morgues, and the search and recovery teams, that will have to look through areas through that devastation. loved ones saw their family members swept away, worry that their family members will never be found. there's the issue of identifying people. the bahamian government is blunt that this will take some time. paula newton, cnn. >>> the u.s. coast guard is trying to rescue four south koreans on a cargo ship. the cargo ship caught fire off the coast of georgia on sunday. 20 other crew

paula newton, cnn, marsh harbor in the abaco islands. >> thank you so much. as evacuees arrive in florida, thousands more are in the bahamas waiting for food and medical supplies to arrive. at least 70,000 across the island are without a home. victor blackwell has been following the ongoing evacuations. he spoke with bahamians whose lives have been turned upside down. >> va >> reporter: evacuation flights continue. we spoke with one family that had been there for seven hours and the feels-like temperature in the middle of the day, 98 degrees. we've heard from the leader of government, the prime minister, the number of dead will be catastrophic. currently just a few dozen officially. we spoke with a woman who rode the storm out alone. her name is germane smith and she hid in her bathroom. here's her story. >> as soon as i duck and i move, a big tree came by the window i just moved from and just missed it. and my roof start lifting. i run inside the bathroom for cover in the tub because they say it always a safe haven and that's what saved me. i was scared lite

. >> paula newton, she told me how many people are traumatized by what they witness. >> reporter: this is the first time we are seeing clear stars. the light of day and it is quite eerie in the nighttime. it is absolute destruction. you see tall debris everywhere and the damage and buildings that were supposed to withstand the hurricane forced winds. it is completely torn apart. that's the kind of devastation. you are seeing debris from everywhere. you would see people's furniture in one house and left in the bathroom. it is in describable. air conditioner pulled out from homes and tossed upside down. it is an absolute mess. when you see that, debris, you realize how lucky people are coming out of this storm alive. >> what are people saying to you? is there any sense of just how big the loss of life is? >> reporter: there is no sense of it yet. people are afraid to hear what it may be like. when you look at the devastation and you see the amount of people that are missing, listening to people talk and all the people they could not account for, robyn and for everyone here right now. in

paula newton, cnn, nassau. >> paula, thank you. >>> still ahead, he ruled over zimbabwe for more thanee decades before being ousted in a coup. now reaction to the death of robert mugabe. it is mixed. more on that story ahead. >>> plus, the bahamas, the devastation there is unthinkable. it's everywhere. >> we don't know if anybody was here, but it's hard to imagine they could have survived, because residents say the storm surge, and you can see the line just up there, got this high. >> we get an exclusive look at one of the hardest hit areas by dorian. live in the united states and around the world, you're wat watching "cnn newsroom." ♪ (male announcer) summer is over, and fall is here. it's time to get back to school, back to work, and back in the blind. because opening day is coming, and off-season day dreams are about to become a reality. it's your season. so check out bass pro shops and cabela's gear up sale for the hunting brands you trust, like cabela's, redhead in true timber camo, and black out. bass pro shops and cabela's. your adventure starts here. at t-mobile, what can you

paula newton, cnn, nassau. >> that's the situation on the island islands there. there's trouble brewing in the atlantic. and it has that part of the world in its sights. our derek van dam is following the details in the international weather center. derek? >> every time i see the images, so difficult to comprehend what the people have gone through. obviously, george, the search and recovery efforts, still under way, across the bahamas. and this is the last thing that residents and tourists want to see. another storm looming in the distance. this picture taken yesterday, in nassau, in the bahamas. i want to be clear to our viewers, we have no indication that the storm will be nearly as powerful, with storm surge and devastating winds. but the threat of another storm system looming is really just a terrible situation, out of an already difficult and problematic one at the moment. we're unleashing the full atlantic tropical basin at the moment. three disturbances that we're watching. one newly formed just off of the west coast of africa. another over the central por

paula newton has this report for you. >> reporter: we're in nassau where they are deploying a lot of aid because we are hearing a lot of frustration from survivors saying this has not happened quickly enough. the bahamian government saying that they are doing all they can and working we closely with the american government and american military and that things will improve the next few days. but the issue is people are wondering will that aid make to them in time. take a listen. the people of marsh harbour can barely believe they survived the epic devastation of dorian, but now they wonder can they survive the aftermath. the nixon family says they barely made it through the storm. they put the children in coolers to get them out. and at the airport, they were separated. those same children are now stuck on the island. >> last night they said they were in the airport and they did not even eat. >> they're at the airport right now? >> yeah, in the front. but it is so chaotic, you know, those little kids trying to push through, there is a lot. >> reporter: their aunt tells us the conditi

paula newton with more from nassau. >> reporter: good morning christine and dave.ers are staggering. 70,000 people homeless because of hurricane dorian in the bahamas. the issue is to get the aid to those people. the capital of the bahamas under strain. not just to get the immediate needs, like food and shelter. as we discussed, so many of the islands obliterated. homes down to their foundation. and the issue becomes, kids need to go to school. people need jobs. this is about long-term care. it will take a lot to get a lot of the people back on their feet. the other issue is the death toll. we've seen dozens of search and rescue teams. unfortunately, it's now search and recovery. they have canines. they have portable morgues and morticians at the ready. this will be painstaking work. and the other issue, and speaking to a lot of relatives who say, they don't know what has happened to their family members. they have seen them washed away from the storm surge. they fear their loved ones will never be found. and add to that, the confusion, about who is missing and whe

cnn's paula newton is there talking to so many of them waiting to leave. paula. >> reporter: yeah, fred, they are so exhausted. i cannot imagine. we are on day six here, and the storm -- another day here on marsh harbour people have come with anything they can carry, and have come here to the port in marsh harbour. we have seen certainly a ferry, other boats and helicopters, and the main thing as well is we have seen the bahamian military try and obviously keep some calm and really try and assure people that they will get out of in time. we have heard from many that they just don't want to stay here anymore, they do not believe it is safe and that there is nothing for them in materials of food, water, medicine, and also just the basics in terms of infrastructure. they no longer want to be here. >> that's a picture of desperation. so many people lining up for ferries to try to get to safety, sustenance and water, paula newton, thank you so much. also excellent reporting. >>> for ways you can help the victims of hurricane dorian, go to cnn.com/impact. the dev

paula newton is in the bahamas this afternoon so paula, one week later, the nation still very much inperate need of help. >> reporter: absolutely on its knees still. we are at one week, fred and from the disaster area, you can see why it's taken so long to even get the basics to people. i mean fred, first for the good news. when i was in the abaco islands yesterday, at least there people were starting to get out. they were in the ferries and boats getting back here the to nassau. a lot of them had adequate food and water as well. the problem though is what they're leaving behind and so many of them, fred, it was so sad. they'll say to you i saw my neighbor washed away. i saw my the sister washed away. i have not seen anyone. and now when we talk about the death toll and the difficulty with trying to recover those bodies, some people believe they'll never see their loved ones again and even identifying the missing and those deceased will be very difficult because many may never be found. through all of this, there have been a will the of private donations, a lot of private agencies on

cnn's paula newton reports from nassau. paula?don, you know, the people of the abaco islands say that hurricane dorian basically broke all the rules. they've been through many stores. they've never seen anything like this. they said they can barely process the fact they've been through it and how they actually got through it. i mean the video is incredible, and when you think about what people went through just to survive through one of these storms, a category 5 they say doesn't begin to cover it in terms of the winds and what they actually had to do to try and survive. take a listen. it is so much worse than they had feared. the abaco islands forever scarred now by mass destruction. home after home, entire rooftops blown away, debris scattered in unrecognizable heaps, boats tossed like confetti. the images belie the obvious question, how could anyone survive this? >> okay, okay, okay. you're okay. you're going to be okay. you're going to be okay. >> reporter: we arrived by helicopter in man o' war in abaco with billy aubrey, emb

cnn's paula newton joins us live from nassau. paula, you're just back to nassau.this time yesterday we just arrived at man-o-war cay. you've gathered some remarkable images and heard some remarkable sad stories. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: yeah, john. yesterday when we had arrived, it had been about an hour on the ground. after that, the devastation that we saw was incredible. i want you to see some of it now. john, you were talking about each and every home. probably about half of them in the area i went through were completely destroyed. the first thing that happened was those rooftops would come off. after that they had debris from their own homes, other homes, air conditioners, all of it spinning around and potentially lethal projectiles headed everywhere. keep in mind when you see this video, at the time the storm was hitting a lot of people didn't have rooftops. they were trying to get to other homes or places of shelter. but look at this video, john. you're talking about unrecognizable -- we had shown some of the footage to some of the islanders and

cnn's paula newton is in the bahamas for us. what are you seeing?rter: wolf, each story, one more heart breaking than the next, i just spoke to a woman who lost her mother, her father, her brother, she told me this while holding her brother's child. and yet she says, wolf, she's the lucky one, she knows where her loved ones are and what happened to them. take a listen. tonight survivors of hurricane dorian are terrified of what they may face next. this woman is frantic, she hasn't seen her cousin since for dorian flattened the area. >> i hope they find him. i hope so. i hope they find him. i hope so. tell us why he was swimming or broken arm, i don't know if that's the reason why. he can't swim no more because he's dead, i don't know. >> reporter: evacuated just a few days ago, she tells us it has been tough to know where or how to start looking for her cousin. for that reason, vanessa started dorian people search.com with a handful of volunteers and her laptop, the list is a living document of the missing and located and a place to start for so man

cnn's paula newton and her team they got exclusive access to one of the hardest hit islands. it was so important to have your cameras there to see what happened but also to hear the stories of the people who lived there. >> yeah, and the stories about dorian, john, just as allison was saying, what is so striking about the storm they told me is it broke all the rules. remember, john, this is a place that has seen all those hurricanes. they can name them all and lived through many of them. and yet they say it broke all the rules, did not behave the way it should and lasted far too long. and that was part of the devastation we saw in the abacos islands. it is so much worse than they had feared, the abacos islands forever scarred now by mass destruction, home after home, entire rooftops blown away, debris scattered in unrecognizable heaps, boats tossed like confetti. the imnages belie the obvious question, how could anyone survive this? >> you're okay. you're going to be okay. >> i know. >> reporter: we arrive by helicopter in abacos with billy aubrey embracing his wife shauna af

cnn's paula newton is in marsh harbour right now. >> another day here on marsh harbour people have come with anything they can carry, quite frankly anything that have survived the storm and come here to the port in marsh harbour. we have seen a ferry, a boat and helicopters. we have seen the bahamian military here try and, obviously, keep some calm and really try to ensure people that they will get out in time. we have heard from many saying they don't want to stay here any more. they do not believe it is safe and that there is nothing for them in terms of food, water, medicine and also just the basics in terms of infrastructure. they no longer want to be here. the people of marsh harbour can barely believe they survived the epic devastation of dorian. but they wonder, can they survive the aftermath. the nixon family said they barely made it through the storm and they put the children in coolers to get them out and at the airport, they were separated. those same children are now stuck on the island. >> last night they said they were in the airport and they diddadid a didant even eat. >>

cnn's paula newton is in the bahamas this afternoon. all hands on deck to help thousands in need. >> reporter: absolutely. and a lot of that has included obviously both governments. obviously the u.s. government which has been working really hand in glove with the bahamian government. this is just a wide and vast operation. i try and remind people, look. these islands, especially the abaco islands, you're talking about hundreds of little places where those helicopters have to land scattered across hundreds of miles. it has been a difficult task. the helicopters continue to go full throttle behind me and those fixed aircraft going in as well. what has been an issue here is that some people have complained that actually the private organizations have been, you know, cluttering up the air space. that it's spotty and disorganized and what they've need sd a big effort from the bahamian government to organize all this. i can tell you from speaking to people on the ground if it weren't for those organizations getting in in the first hours, the

paula newton nown live in the abaco islands man-o-war cay. tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: absolutely incredible. you can imagine these people have survived one of the strongest storms to ever hit this earth and, john, it is devastation everywhere you look. think about it. we have seen entire, entire fields of debris, places completely flattened. people are struggling to really even tell us the stories and what they lived through. hours and hours of winds where they had to debris of pieces of their home running through the windows. there is nothing left of this kind of community here. we're talking about damage, 90 to almost 100% of everything that is here. the stories that you hear about survival, people crawling into closets, crawling into bathrooms as their entire homes were lifted. roofs toppled. they could hear their appliances being flown around their backyards. when you go through these islands, john, you talk about the resilience they are going to have to have in the weeks and months to come, there is nothing left of these pl

paula newton is reporting from marsh harbour. >> reporter: this is the area of marsh harbour and it took the bankrupt of hurricane dorian. you can only imagine the terror of people who are living here. they don't have an estimate as to how many people were here or how many people managed to get out alive. but look at this. family belongings strewn everywhere. it is impossible to make out even where the homes were and where they stood. the issue is that they do not know if victims are still buried somewhere under all of this debris. we spoke with morticians who have been hired by the bahamian government to come here. also a canine team from the government who is looking for body. they told me that this is a difficult job and it will be very tough to search this entire area thoroughly and that will still take a few more days. that might be another reason why we don't yet have an accurate, an official death toll. the government says, itself, and admits, look. the death toll will rise and rise sharply. we just don't have an estimate yet. the people who were living here, a lot of them were ha

coming up, our paula newton is on the island of abaco and our derek van dam is standing by in charleston, south carolina. but let's begin with the forecast. so we turn to meteorologist pedram javaheri, who joins us from the international weather center. so talk to us about this. it's been upgraded and where is it going? where is it headed? >> yeah, rosemary, it's a menacing storm system. a major hurricane, as you said, a category 3, sitting just about 100 miles south of charleston, south carolina, at this hour. take a look at the fortunate nature of some of these cities, daytona beach, jacksonville, savannah, in incredibly close proximity to the storm system. the luck going to run out in the next 24 hours as we see dorian make landfall and approach the u.s. significant rainfall already beginning to be pushed in across savannah, charleston, and with this expecting some 6 to 10 inches of rainfall inside the next 12 to 24 hours. so significant flooding going to be the big story for some of these cities that are going to be directly impacted with hurricane dorian. some cities could see isola

paula newton, cnn, in marsh harbour, abaco islands. >>> paula, thank you. the united states said it evacuated 1,400 people from the bahamas so far. a cruise ship took them to a port in florida saturday. the passengers included more than 500 americans and 800 bahamians. one woman told cnn she's worried because she can't reach her sister. >> i've been calling the phone but i am not getting any answer. i am really worried about her. i need to get her over here or on the island of bimini. i desperately need to hear if she is okay. and i need to get her out of there because she had a stroke two years ago and she cannot do anything for herself. >> all right. if anyone knows anything about that of course do reach out of course. cnn's rosa flores was at the port when the ship arrived and has this for you. >> reporter: the port of palm beach turned into a reunification saturday as evacuees reunited with family and the friends. they embraced, they hugged. they shed tears here where i'm standing as the evacuees disembarked from this humanitarian ship. we asked many of

first let's go to cnn's paula newton in the bahamian capital of nassau. paula, the full scope of this disaster has yet to be revealed. >> reporter: yeah, and yet to be revealed, wolf, even to the bahamian government. the national security minister was very clear just a few moments ago, saying, look, they have a long road ahead. while he does say the search, rescue, and recovery is in full throttle in his words, that is cold comfort to people here still looking to get their loved ones out of some of those islands, but also to figure out where those loved ones still are. take a listen. the people of marsh harbour can barely believe they survived the epic devastation of dorian. but now they wonder can they survive the aftermath. the nixon family says they barely made it through the storm. they put the children in coolers to get them out, and at the airport, they were separated. those same children are now stuck on the island. >> last night they said they was in the airport, and they didn't even eat. >> are they at the airport right now? >> yeah, they're in th

paula newton, cnn, marsh harbor, balls. bahamas. >> the sheer devastation on the islands has driven many people around the world to pitch in to do what they can to help. one of them is an entrepreneur and philanthropist bethenny frankel. bethany just returned from the islands and joins us by phone. good to have you with us. >> hi, how are you? >> good. thank you for your time today. first of all, help our viewers in the united states and around the world understand exactly how your team is contributing here. surely there's a lot of work to be done there. you're able to do this at scale? you have planes making several trips delivering to several different bases throughout the bahamas. this is by no means a small operation. >> it's not a small operation, but we are -- infrastructure year round is small, 100% goes to the relief effort. so we're very lean -- not lean, we're nice. we partner with the right teams to be first in and really do a large-scale relief effort. so we now have four to eight planes a day going into the sur

paula newton and her crew had to take shelter on one of the islands there and spend the night in a homeivors. paula joins me now live from nassau in the bahamas. and paula, you spent 24 hours on an island with no power, no water, the people there were storm survivors were terrified. we're glad you're back and you're okay. tell us about it. >> i have to tell you, jake, we were so overwhelmed. jerry simonson and i, the cameraman with me, by everything that we saw. but most of all, jake, we were overwhelmed by the trauma these people are feeling. and everything they have gone through and have yet to go through. take a listen. it is so much worse than they had feared. the abaco islands forever scarred now by mass destruction. home after home, entire rooftops blown away. debris scattered in unrecognizable heaps. boats tossed like confetti. the images belie the obvious question. how could anyone survive this? [ crying ] >> okay, okay, okay, okay. >> i'm paula. >> you're okay. you're okay. it will be okay, okay? >> i know. >> reporter: we arrive by helicopter in abaco with billy audrey, embrac

the latest updates from middle east correspondent paula. newton yahoo is to parliamentary seats behind his main rival for my idea of chief begun says santa lift blue and white party whether that in the end transpires to be correct or not so if you know when yahoo does not have enough seats to form a comfortable coalition majority he needs 61 out of 120 seats so he's going to have to form a coalition potentially not only with his right wing support. and the big question mark as well who can he actually approach to form a coalition government with if he current and if been against content that seems to be the prognosis certainly at this stage the country could see itself heading for a 3rd election don't forget the previous election was back in april and that was an election that because netanyahu was unable to win he forced in another election this time around and that's why we've seen critics say that the era of netanyahu is over he hasn't yet addressed his supporters he hasn't yet addressed reporters we hear that he's on the phone trying to put to

in the areas they can reach, rescuers are going house by house, searching for survivors, our paula newtonhave -- guana cay. tell us how bad it is where you have been today. >> reporter: again when you go through these islands, i can't tell you people getting over the shock of having survived it. but now they need to understand what it will take to rebuild and to be honest, it's been quite terrifying for them. when they see anybody official, keep in mind, another island we have gone to, we haven't seen anyone from the bahamian government yet, to see u.s. aid on the ground there trying to help them out came as a great relief. take a listen. it's tough but crucial to reach every corner and crevice of these battered islands. we touched down in the now scarred great gu that na cay with u.s. aid. they tapped fairfax county v. search and rescue to help out. local residents give them some bearings. >> that's amean really really good news. >> reporter: they get any assessment. incredibly, no one has died here. >> for far? we talked about? >> reporter: they helped stock food in the church, now a ma

paula newton is there talking to many of the people waiting to leave. rs . >> reporter: another day here on marsh harbor. people have arrived with anything remaining. we have seen a ferry, boats and helicopter ps we have seen the bahamian military here keep some calm and assure people they will get out in time. we have heard from many saying they just don't want to stay here anymore. they do not believe it is safe and that there is nothing for them in terms of food, water, medicine and also just the base ibs -- basics in terms of infrastructure. many have nowhere to go and are wondering how they can possibly rebuild their lives after this horrific storm. marsh harbor in the abaco islands. >> a really long road ahead. thank you so much. >> please go to cnn.com/impact for more on how you can help. >>> and president trump, steps for a formal impeachment probe next week? plus a new twist in a missing connecticut mom. her estranged husband arrested. why he now claims he had no part in her disappearance. are we supposed to dance? ♪ boy bands without dancing a

paula newton and her team got exclusive access to one of the hardest hit islands. what you saw and what you heard, heart breaking. >> reporter: absolutely heart breaking. all the more terrifying now. because the people we spoke to knew and feared the worst in terms of the death toll. incredible how this community came together. we spent 24 hours there. they still cannot process everything they've been through. they're still traumatize. it is so much worse than they feared. home after home, debris scattered in heeaps, boats tossd like confetti. how could anyone survive this? >> i told you we'd get here. you're okay. you're okay. you're going to be okay. >> reporter: we arrive by helicopter in abaco with billy aubrey embracing his wife shawna after days not knowing if she was dead or alive. they all scrambled to find anything still standing. nancy, this is what kept you guys alive? >> this little room kept us alive. this is it. we came in and hunkered down. shawna was on the ground crying. >> i was hysterical. >> reporter: what did it sound like? >> there was a lot o

correspondent paula newton live right now to abacos islands. but we begin with patrick oppmann in freeport. >> reporter: hi, good morning, guys. it's day three now. the sun is out as you can see, but there are still people trapped in their homes we're told. yesterday when we met out and met those brave bahamians going on their own jet skis and boats to rescue their loved ones, they told us there's still hundreds of people out there awaiting rescue. the view from above the bahamas, apocalyptic, communities flattened and rows of homes under water, others scattered in long stretches of debris. >> this is the worst experience i've ever had of a hurricane. >> reporter: this is just a small glimpse of the scale of the destruction hereafter hurricane dorian battered the bahamas for days. the deadly storm leaving behind catastrophic devastation on abacos and grand bahama islands, making rescue efforts nearly impossible. >> we are seeing the courage of bahamian volunteers who are coming to the rescue of others using whatever resources they have availabl

disaster from dorian taking a very heavy toll and likely will do so for months to come reporter paula newtons this firsthand look at the devastation. >>it's tough luck crucial to reach every corner and crevice of these battered islands. >>the touchdown in the now scarred great won a key on a mission with the united states agency for international development usaid they have to ask search and rescue from fairfax county virginia to help out. local residents give them some bearings no it's and they get an assessment incredibly no one has died here. >>that's how far from a truck over there. >>to help stop food in the church now a makeshift shelter. offer medical assessments. and then move on to a house to house search gathering intel for the bahamian government as they try and get a handle on the magnitude of what happened here. >>so what we've done is i've walked around the building of assess the building make sure that no is calling now nobody's a park, a clear. >>truce is dorian's cuts through these islands and keys were menacing the cat 5 storm passes in red and its last right through the co

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paula newton, she's been there since the beginning. she's live now from nassau. paula. you have the bahamas, a few dozen miles from the coast of the u.s., americans visit there, live there all the time, and yet more than a week after this devastating storm, people still not getting the aid they need. what's going on? >> reporter: well, the issue is how that aid was distributed and when it was distributed. i mean, it is hard. it's hundreds of miles, right, guys, those little islands and keys everywhere. i think that usa id says that now, look, they have done a first sweep, and they have been able to evacuate anybody who needed to be evacuated by air, and they are trying to get the basic supplies, right, food and water. the main concern now obviously is disease, and so they are trying to go back out to those islands and see who needs medical attention now and what they can do to really mitigate a lot of the stress and obviously a lot of the risk in staying there. while the lot of people have left and have been evacuated, there are some people that either haven't had that

paula newton joins us. it's now consumed trudeau ahead of the election? >> yes.ou to look at those pictures. it's jaw dropping especially for a man who really is the political brand is that he is inclusive and he has fought for women's rights, indigenous rights and to have that diversity in canadian society. there were many, many words of contrition. he said it quite often. take a listen to him once again apologizing. >> people who live with the kind of discrimination that far too many people do because of the color of their skin or their history or their origins or their language or their religion face on a regular basis, and i didn't see that from the layers of privilege that i have and for that, i am deeply sorry. >> the layers of white prifl. and he called them out as racist. in terms of what he said in that press conference, he said he could not recollect if there were other times he did this. this was the first one, as we said, gala at a private school function where he was a teacher. he was 29 years old. you see him there in the costume of aladdin. one in

cnn's paula newton has more. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau asking for forgiveness. >> disappointedelf obviously and i'm apologizing to canadians. >> after this photo was tweeted showing him wearing brown face to an arabian knights themed party. >> i dressed up as aladdin and went to a party. i shouldn't have done that. i should have known better and i'm sorry. >> this is one week after he launched his bid for re-election. >> i stand here before canadians as i will throughout this campaign and talk about the work we have to do to make a better country together. and i'm going to continue to stay focused on that and continue to work to fight intolerance and discrimination. >> other canadian lawmakers immediately slamming the prime minister. >> wearing brown face is an act of mockery and racism. just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019. >> it's going to be hard for a lot of people and bring up a lot of pain, a lot of hurt. >> in the past, trudeau has been accused of cultural appropriation. during a visit to india last year with the prime minister and his family dressed in traditional cl

cnn's paula newton joins us now from the bahamian capital of nassau.are told that some 70,000 people are now homeless. how are rescue teams helping? >> reporter: yeah. the number is just staggering. part of the problem now is trying to direct the aid where you need it. the u.s. has been here with these search and rescue teams, critical. over 300 done by the u.s. coast guard there. they now have to move that operation to search and recovery. that is part of the coordination here on the ground in nassau. the fact of the matter is in the abaco islands where i've been the last few days, a lot of people have evacuated. many of them have come here to nassau. this is where the aid needs to be prepositioned here. listen to mark greed frn explai. >> this is what we do to help make sure that aid is appropriately coordinated. we just got done meeting with a number of our humanitarian partners, ngos, international partners, sharing information, working closely with the prime minister. so absolutely coordination, no room for duplication, no room for stepping on eac

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reporter paula newton is in the abaco islands of marsh harbor.e've spoken about it many times and that's because as you can see, it took the brunt of hurricane dorian. you can only imagine the terror of people who were living here. they don't have an estimate as to how many people are here, how many people managed to get out alive. but look at this. their family belongings strewn everywhere. it's impossible to make out where the homes were and where they stood. the issue is they do not know if victims are still buried somewhere under all of this debris. we spoke with morticians hired by the bahamian government to come here. also a k-9 team from the government looking for bodies. they told me this is a difficult job and it will be very, very tough to search this entire area thoroughly and that will still take a few more days. that might be another reason why we don't yet have an official death toll. the government says itself and admits, the death toll will rise and rise sharply. we just don't have an estimate yet. the other tragedy here is those

these are images that were captured by cnn's paula newton and her crew on man-o-war island in abaco. she spent 24 hours in this tiny community of about 300 people. as you can see, almost every structure and home there has suffered damage, major damage, or it was just completely destroyed. paula is back now in nassau and she's joining us to tell us what she saw. you talked to many residents about these stories of survival. tell us about what they told you. >> reporter: yeah, incredible. think about it, trying to survive with your family in a storm like that. they said it was something out of an epic horror movie. you would be in one room, the roof would blow off, walls would start collapsing. and then the rain and the wind and you would look for any place in your home where you could take shelter. a bathtub, whatever it was. and you were hanging on literally for dear life. they described the winds that would not let up and the debris flying around. these were lethal projectiles that were flying in the air. if they tried to get to another building that looked a little safer, it was imp

>>to hit that nation's cnn's paula newton reports on the devastation and where residents of marsh harbor evacuated in mass. >>for many survivors of hurricane dorian the nightmare of this storm. it isn't over. they are terrified of what they may face next so when a slew stores frantic she hasn't seen her cousin since dorian flattened marsh harbor more than a week ago. >>she says leonardo fred let is a quiet generous 33 year-old contractor. it does stop >>award had a month working on the reason why. of course like kill us from all causes that i don't know. >>evacuated just a few days ago lewis store tells us it's been tough to even know where or how to start looking for her cousin. for that reason vanessa pictured started dorian people search dot com with a handful of volunteers and her laptop. list is a living document of the missing and located and a place to start and for so many knowing there are still people missing. and survivors are still coping with so much more on the need to go to the doctor because she was out being when she was 6 months pregnant. >>and we'll mourn marsh harbor

joining us now is paula newton. >> what a turn during an election campaign.is election campaign is in chaos. his international reputation in tatters. he literally says he cannot remember, that he didn't recall the events of this. this is a new video that came out from the 1990s. before that, the one of the picture there as he's dressed as aladdin. >> that's 2001. >> he was a teacher, 29 years old at that time. and this is high school. he addressed this himself last night saying, look. i just do not remember. take a listen. >> i am wary of being definitive about this because the recent pictures that came out, i had not remembered. and i think the question is how can you not remember that. the fact is i -- i didn't understand how hurtful this is to people who live with discrimination every single day. >> stunning. the prime minister continues on his campaign. he definitely is not resigning. he will face this at each and every campaign stop. you can guarantee it. >> i don't know what to say. this seems like one of his go-to costumes at this point. >> i think tha

paula newton in nassau after 24 hours at ground zero for this hurricane and the abacos islands. so much. we'll get reconnected. she'll send in some of her material, she and her team and the work they have been doing to get these images out and stories out. much more to come on that. if you're looking at this and saying how can i help when i'm helpless to do anything, there is something you can do. you can help the bahamas. go to our website, cnn.com/impact. we've compiled a list of nearly a dozen charitable organizations that are helping in the bahamas. we'll be right back. like you, my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. thought surgery was my only option. turns out i was wrong. so when a hand specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. like you, my hands have a lot more to do. learn more at factsonhand.com today. like you, my hands have ai was told to begin my aspirin regimen, blem. and i just didn't listen. until i almost lost

paula newton is outfront live in nassau. beginning with you, paula, what are people telling you there? >> they are telling us that they can't believe when they look at the pictures that they even survived the storm. but now they are very concerned as well about surviving the aftermath. and we have so many stories, a dozen stories we heard about family as separated as they try and get off the islands and get to shelter. and i want to talk to you about that death toll. as the government says they have no update it stands at 30, they are warning everyone of course it will rise. but the anecdotal evidence we have from survivors says they're rattled, terrified about how high that death toll could go. i want to you listen to elizabeth nixon, right now. she survived the storm by putting members of her family, the kids in coolers only to arrive at the airport in march shall harbor and then have her family separated. through all of this she is waiting for her family to get back to here, safe ground in nassau and hear here is what she

cnn's paula newton joins me live from a different part of the island. she's at an airfield in nassau, which is now being used as a staging area for aid and rescue teams, and paula, i mean, frankly, it could take years for the bahamas to recover from this? >> reporter: yeah, if ever, the bahamas will be for many decades likely transformed by this. the reason for that is you are dealing with islands and keys that are isolated at times spanning over several hundred miles. this is a deployment area, not for lack of trying but the aid effort has been, in fact, spotty and chaotic. you have that mix of both government and volunteer aid, and given as i said how widespread the need is, it is difficult to really ascertain if people are getting everything that they need. when we first start with the basics, the food and the water, then there are people who need to be evacuated and as patrick just told you in very grim detail, there is search and recovery, and that search and recovery mission is also very important. it keeps away disease like cholera. we're here in