to those in abaco. airline bahamas air will fly them out free of charge to the capital, on grand bahama, and saturday i will fly into grand bahama and speak with the grand bahamians and the residents there and reassure them that the government will not dessert them. we will be there with them throughout -- through thick and thin. after all, we one bahamian and we are one nation and we will go together. >> prime minister minnis, i know you have a huge job ahead of you. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> we'll have more on hurricane dorian just ahead. chef jose andres is continuing his mission to feed as many as he can as fast as he can in storm ravaged bahamas. we'll talk with him, what he's seen and what he's done. your eyes won't show it. new super stay concealer from maybelline new york. dark circles wiped out full coverage and up to 24-hour wear. new super stay concealer only from maybelline new york. should always be working harder. that's why, your

still waiting to get to little abaco and grand bahama island. >> shepard: abaco island is where the stormor. i wonder what your eyes on the ground or in the boats are telling you. >> we don't have boats there yet. we have seven helicopters with customs and border protection. they're flying over, assessing where we can potentially bring in boats and land aircraft. they're looking for folks in distress that they can get to and once they're at the end -- >> shepard: i think he is accidentally pressing a button. go ahead, admiral. are you still with us? apparently we lost admiral eric jones. i will tell you that the -- we keep talking about abaco island. the scenes there are -- i hate to use the phrase, looks like a bombs went off. i can't think of a better way to describe it. i remember the days after hurricane andrew landed in south florida. you may remember, you know, so long ago. we hadn't seen that kind of destruction since hurricane neil in the 60s. looked like piles of lumber instead of homestead and the rest. and though certainly the buildings are different on abaco and the topography

he is in nassau and has been spending time in marsh harbor in abaco. in is part of what he has been seeing. >> reporter: the strongest storm to ever hit the bahamas, the strongest form on the planet this year. this is what those superlatives look like up close. this business apartment in those 180 mile-per-hour winds collapsed on to itself. you can see a counter here, but what this was really isn't decipherable by what's left here. let me take you to this side. the only thing that's left here are stairs and the beginnings of a porch. i can't tell what was here those winds were so strong. for nine hours, from one points where the eye of dorian approached abaco, came on land, to the time the other side of the eye exited, it was nine hours the winds were here, gusts up to 225 miles per hour. as far as you can see from marsh harbor, there is damage, the area is decimated, and it will take a very long time to rebuild. >> that's part of what he saw. victor is with us now from nassau. victor, i know that you have been through this before, through hurricanes,

within abaco. we have not yet surveyed grand bahamas.nity will be damaged. >> have you heard from the president? >> not personally. the president's representatives have been in communication with us regularly. i can say that they have been in communication with us. myself and the other members of mu cabinet. on a daily basis. asking us what we need and whatever the inform them we are obliged. >> great. that's great to hear. that the u.s. is responsive. we obviously have tremendous capability and there's a close relationship with the bahamas. 50 miles off the shore. in terms hof how long do you think it will take for you to know how much need there is and how long do you think the situation will be desperate there on the ground in terps of the basic essentials for life? >> we expect tomorrow. to go into to do an seszment. in terms of rebuilding that will take a while. however we are resilient nation. and a resilient group of people we will rebuild and come together and rebuild. we have been been this road before. not as bad as this. we ha

i honestly believe abaco is finished. i think abaco will not recover until the next ten years.e, fully recover, because everything is gone. absolutely everything is gone. the uk is distributing shelter and ration packs across affected communities. but even those of them who have been doing this through powerful hurricanes of recent years told us they had never seen needs as great as this. aleem maqbool, bbc news, the abaco islands. let's get some of the day's other news: a committee in the us house of representatives is investigating vice president mike pence‘s visit to ireland. this is after he stayed at a trump—owned hotel 300 km from dublin, where he was meeting officials. a spokesman for mr pence said they stayed at the hotel at the suggestion of president trump, something the president has denied. leaders of south american countries have met in colombia to discuss the wildfires in the amazon. brazil's president, jair bolsanaro, didn't attend in person butjoined the meeting by phone. his pro—business policies have been accused of making the fires worse. mr bolsanaro stayed

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? >> oh, my god! >> it's okay. it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. you're okay. you're okay. it will be okay, okay? you're going to be okay? >> i know, i know. >> reporter: we arrive by helicopter in abaco with billy aubrey, embracing his wife, shauna, after days of not knowing if she was dead or alive. shauna hunkered down with friends in their seaside home until the roof blew off, and they all scrambled to find anything still standing. so nancy, this is what kept you guys alive? this little bathroom? >> this little room kept us alive. we came in and hunkered down and shauna was on the ground, crying, and we were just trying to -- >> i was hysterical. >> reporter: what did it sound like in here at the time? >> oh, it was loud. well, there was a lot of crashing. i remember all the crashing and banging and wh

i honestly believe abaco is finished. i think abaco will not recover until the next ten years, like, fully recover, because everything is gone. absolutely everything is gone. the uk is distributing shelter and ration packs across affected communities. but even those of them who have been doing this through powerful hurricanes of recent years told us they had never seen needs as great as this. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in the abaco islands of the bahamas. india has lost contact with a lunar explorerjust as it was going to land on the surface of the moon. the chandrayaan—2 mission was just over 2 km above the moon when transmission ceased. the descent is a complex operation and success would have made india only the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to touchdown on the most southerly part, where no one country has been before. so what happened to the mission? raji rajagopalan is the head of the nuclear and space policy initiative at the observer research foundation. i think it is too early to say

that is abacos cay in the bahamas.wiped off the map at this hour. there are many people whose lives are in danger. we'll get an update on this forecast. there it is. very ominous sight. we'll be right back. we trust usaa more than any other company out there. they give us excellent customer service, every time. our 18 year old was in an accident. usaa took care of her car rental, and getting her car towed. all i had to take care of was making sure that my daughter was ok. if i met another veteran, and they were with another insurance company, i would tell them, you need to join usaa because they have better rates, and better service. we're the gomez family... we're the rivera family... we're the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today. >>> we continue to track the monster storm dorian. winds of 185 miles per hour. those are the sustained winds. the wind gusts topping 220 miles per hour as the hurricane barrels over the bahamas right now. joining me on the phone is grand baham

. >> it is worst in abaco. >> the weather or the looting? >> the looting. >> that's you ever. on monday, you say you are considering with your family putting on the life vest and tie yourself together. what did you end up doing? >> we ended up being stable to stay at the home because the water did not come higher. we were concerned that our floor will go up and down with the waver action underneath our house. we were not sure whether the floor is going to come up. we are able to stay in the home. >> why didn't you evacuate? >> well, we have been through every storm in particular. no one has seen anything like this. nobody. >> this island flooded every from the north shore to the south shore and areas that have never seen floodwaters, i had friend who had 8 or nine feet of water in their house and they never expect to see it. >> shrill children annals, theys are safe and so many people i heard, yesterday i heard of death and people drowning. it is just incredible. >> you believe the number is greater than e 7. who lost their lives? >> i can't

i honestly believe abaco is finished.hink abaco will not recover until the next ten years, like, fully recover, because everything is gone. absolutely everything is gone. the uk is distributing shelter and ration packs across affected communities. but even those of them who have been doing this through powerful hurricanes of recent years told us they had never seen needs as great as this. let's get some of the day's other news. a committee in the us house of representatives is investigating vice—president mike pence‘s visit to ireland. it's after he stayed at a trump—owned hotel 300km from dublin, where he was meeting officials. a spokesman for mr pence said they stayed at the hotel at the "suggestion" of president trump, something the president has denied. the economic adviser to the white house, larry kudlow, has suggested it may take many years for the united states and china to resolve their trade war. he told reporters the stakes in the dispute were high, and if it took a decade to sort out, so be it. the world's two

have they gotten on to abaco and grand bahama and able to help people out? >> it's challenging for a number of reasons. main airport in freeport is pretty much under water. that's ruined. abaco is blocked by a lot of trees. we haven't seen any fixed wing flights. it's all helicopters. the u.s. coast guard and border patrol rescuing people around the clock. we've also heard some disconcerting reports about violen violence, looting in the area of abaco island. we haven't confirmed it but a number of people that have gotten off the helicopters have said there's looting and rock throws. so security concerns as well, which will only complicate things further, shepard. >> shepard: steve harrigan, not surprising. you know, after a disaster like this, steve, when you're on an island and there's no available food and no available water, some people resort to what they can do to keep water in their children and food in their stomachs. >> yeah, you call it stealing. i call it feeding my kids. it's a tough situation to be in. the physical damage is clear when you see th

aerial pictures showing parts of abaco islands decimated.or homes and infrastructures flattened. at least seven people have been killed and they expect that number to rise. the country's foreign minister said he went on a reconnaissance mission provided by the u.s. and found the area under water. and it, quote, looks like a lake. the red cross says 62,000 people are without clean drinking water and that 60,000 people are going to need food. here's more from the prime minister last night. >> our building codes are built to withstand about -- our building codes were built to withstand about 150 miles per hour wind. we never expected that we would one day encounter the velocity as high as 180, to 200 miles per hour. but we will take that as a lesson. >> all right. staying on hurricane dorian for a moment. for the very latest on the track of that weather pattern, let's cross over to msnbc meteorologist janessa webb. >> it hovered over the bahamas for 52 hours. the squalls are taking over most of florida, the northern edge here, that's going to b

tomorrow.hu heather , an attorney and abaco native started a group called "restoration abaco" to help bring rs ief suppl the ravaged island. >> as time goes on and the days go by, and we have todd other things like building materials and appliances and whatever else and get a full assessment. but right now it's just food and water and medical supplies and making sure everyone is safe anw secure al-fed. 90-foot barge to haul supplies. and celebrity chef jose andres is leading a team in the kitchen the atlantis hotel convention center in nassau. today they cookedassive batches of pasta soup and made thousands of tuna fish sandwiches for survivors in grand bahama and abaco. today's goal: 10,000 sandwichesm here in thina in nassau, some of these pleasure boats are being loaded up,ea to make the run tomorrow to abaco island.these four boats are beig loaded with supplies donatedie y attanooga businessman lou lantini. aley have 20,000 tarps, generators, med supplies, tents, toiletries. they expect to get offshore of hometown, abaco, and hope tost there three or four days and ferry this stuff

my family is really spread all over abaco. i have a niece all the way down in the area, and i have my center and her husband, my mother and other family is at treasure key and my sister is there as well. if i can give advice, there are very much a lot of areas down in north abaco where the coast guard can land, if they need any advice of where to go, go to the church, look at the area. see if they can land. because the shelter -- they can land in the park. >> the family members that you have been able to speak to, what kinds of conditions are they describing on the ground? >> as of now, all of their homes are gone. literally everything is gone. but they have life so i'm thankleful for that. >> any supplies that they need? >> nobody is saying anything. yesterday i sent some supplies. i'm hoping they get it, though. >> we're hoping they get it too. thank you so much for speaking with us. i know this is a tough time for you and your family. morgan, she's just one of -- seeing them from here, it's over a dozen families waiting for

andrew evans arrived in nassau toy from abaco. >> everything in abaco is totally destroyed. s like we we look bombed. everything in abaco is gone. >> yang: a flurry of rescue and phoping to make it to abaco and grand bahama tomorrow.at heher hunt, an ato rney and abactive started a group called "restoration abaco" to help bupng reliefies to the ravaged island. >> as time goes on and the days go by, and we have to add other and appliances and whatever else the needs are once we get there and get a full assessment. t right now it's just food and water and medical supplies and making sure everyone is safe and >> yang: her group has rented a 90-foot barge to haul supplies. and celebrity chef jose andres of the atlantis hotel convention center in nassau. today they cook massive batches of pasta soup and made thousands of tunaish sandwiches for survivors in grand bahamand abac today's goal: 10,000 sandwiches hereis marina in nassau, some of these pleasure boats are being loaded up, ready to make the run tomorrow to abaco island. these four boats are being loaded wth supplies donat

i honestly believe abaco is finished. i think abaco will not recover until the next ten years, like, fully recover, because everything is gone. absolutely everything is gone. the uk is distributing shelter and ration packs across affected communities. but even those of them who have been doing this through powerful hurricanes of recent years told us they had never seen needs as great as this. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in the abaco islands of the bahamas. and we will be returning to this story in the next few minutes by getting an update on the situation in north carolina, where hurricane dorian made landfall in the last few hours. india's attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon appears to have failed. scientists lost contact with the vikram lander during the descent to the lunar surface. as bill hayton reports, the country's prime minister urged the scientists not to give up hope. glum faces at ground control. india was attempting to become the fourth country to make it to the moon, but it was not to be. everything appear

this is the town of marsh harbor on abaco. just entirely underwater. the fact that dorian wouldn't move, that it was stuck there for so long, has meant it took a long time to get these images. it was basically impossible to get a sense of what had happened there and to get relief efforts under way until the eye of the storm finally moved off grand bahama, which only happened this afternoon. as "the washington post" reports tonight, emergency responders are now conducting, quote, targeted rescues, quote, on the facebook page of the prime minister's office, the government asked people stranded on grand bahama to send their gps locations via whatsapp. one user posted, quote, freeport gospel chapel multipurpose building, meaning i'm trapped there, i need rescuing there. another person posted, quote, hi, stuck by grand central four-way in -- excuse me, grand central four-way. please send help. holding on to a wall. people sending live reports with their gps coordinates, whatsapping them to the facebook page of the prime minister. you have to try to save peo

you talked about the storm there earlier and abaco. our brother happens to love in abaco. and of course the full communications system is down there. so many of the families have significant concerns in terms of the well being of their families. that is understandable given the fact that communication is down. but you can appreciate anxieties. you can appreciate the worries. you can appreciate the concerns that many family members would have. >> no kidding. whap have you heard because communication as you said has been difficult. we have satellite imagery showing much of grand bahama island under water. grand bahama island as al roker was just saying was under the storm for about 48 hours directly. abaco got it very hard, however. have you been able to get word? is the news there giving you some sense of what that damage looks like? >> well, the prime minister had a press conference and he describe it as historical tragedy. if you've seen some images by way of the social media. and i can tell you the abaco and grand bahama we would have known seem to be under tremendous di

aleem maqbool, bbc news, on the abaco islands of the bahamas.ince cancelling a meeting with the taliban president trump has said talks with the group are dead. he said he cancelled talks due to be held over the weekend at camp david because the militants killed a us service member. mr trump explained his decision. we had a meeting scheduled. it was my idea, and it was my idea to terminate it. i didn't even — i didn't discuss it with anybody else. when i heard very simply that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, i said "there's no way i'm meeting on that basis, there's no way i'm meeting." while talks maybe at an end there for now with the united states, the relationship with north korea is continuing. pyongyang has said it's willing to hold denuclearisation talks with washington in late september — the first concrete offer of talks since the summit between donald trump and kimjong—un broke down in hanoi in february. from washington we can speak to frances brown who is a fellow with carnegie's democracy, conflict, and go

abaco, there are quite a bit more, over a remained.e a bit more, overa hundred, but for the most part, they are second homeowners, so resident. but the same with locals as with visitors. if they are in a low—lying area or close to the shore, we have pleaded with people to go to hurricane shelters and to higher ground. it may be too late now if they haven't done so, and so they would have to weather the storm, but i think most people from all accounts heeded the call to go for shelter. that was joy jibrilu, director—generalforthe bahamas ministry of tourism speaking to mea bahamas ministry of tourism speaking to me a little earlier. polls have now closed in eastern germany in two regional elections. projected results according to an exit poll show the far right alternative for deutschland making gains in the former east german states of brandenburg and saxony, but failing to win the largest vote share in either area. the poll shows victories for establishment parties, with the centre—left social democrats winning brandenburg, and angela

not only in abaco, grand bahamas as well.ke the only information or medical persons being sent to marsh harbor are out of marsh harbor. communities north of abaco, cooperstown, crown haven, nothing has been said about them. and it's just frustrating, because i'm 18. my sister is 21. our other cousins are only 21 and we were able to establish an avenue of communication with people in treasure cay and our government doesn't seem they're equipped to handle that or don't know what they're doing. it's frustrating that a group of college kids are able to get contact and send for help and they're doing nothing almost. >> raevyn and meghan bootle, hope you get the answers you're looking to hear and hear from your aunt, mother, grandmother and uncle. the bahamian minister marvin dames says now that the all-clear has been given to abaco, they're trying to set up a security system there. he talked about reports that there is violence on the island. he said some of them, they've proven to be false. some, they expect, will be valid. they

abaco island got the worst.e a similar picture like that of abaco. >> many rescue teams haven't been able to get there. forget the airports being under water and closed. boats can't get there and helicopters cannot land with the winds what they've been. >> keep in mind that's what's going to need the help. we're looking at southeast florida and georgia and the carolinas. but we are going to need assistance there. we have u.s. resources positioned immediately to help the bahamas right now. but over the course of the next few days, that's going to be thanks for watching. chris jansing picks up our coverage. >>> it's 11:00 a.m. out west, 2:00 p.m. out east. hurricane dorian is on the move towards the u.s. coast. now a category 2 hurricane but still a massive and slow-moving storm. dorian is estimated 100 miles east of florida. the storm is expected to spare florida from a direct hit but batter it with wind, rain and flooding as it moves up the atlantic coastline. the states bracing for possible landfall in the comi

abaco and grand bahama were pounded by dorian for two solid days. the red cross says nearly half of the homes were damaged or destroyed. 62,000 people are without drinking water. and this photo shows a marina on abaco before the storm and this shows it after, with boats scattered throughout the property. tonight, dorian is on the move, it is heading north and westward toward the u.s. coast at about six miles an hour. it's actually growing larger, too. the hurrhufoe winds now exte 60 mis from the center, so it is getting very very close. and new tonight, the storm's track shows it could still make landfall in the carolinas, and so watches and warnings now extend to the north carolina- virginia border. we'll have more of the forecast in just a moment, but we begin with our first detailed look at the devastation in the bahamas. amis is what 48 straight hours of hurricane-force winds, 30 inches of rain, and a storm surge of as much as 23 feet can do. massive devastation across the northern bahamas, the abacos flattened. the red cross reports thousands o

did you see any of that on abaco? >> no, no.e time we got in there the tomorrow is moving so slow. the weather was calm enough to bring a helicopter in. the water had already winds shifted. it pushed the water back out. most had already taken place. i get into one part of the abaco. the mud. it's one community there. it's a lot of homes you can't tell there were homes there. it's a bunch of building terms put in a big grinder and thrown around the ground. it's gone. there's probably search and rescue i would think to be done in the area. as well as many others in the surge. >> it's interesting as to what islands it hit. harbor island, there was damage. but nothing like what we're seeing on abaco. and free mont. >> it's hard to say. >> free port. >> 70 miles per hour. or flying straight line. and bouncing from one place to the other. to actually go based on gas. it's hard to track exactly where we were the whole time. it was definitely barrier islands. great abaco took the brunt of it. >> you'll go to grand bahamas island tomorro

but they're in the faze determining what is on abaco. to determine how to keep things. >> in situations we have seen so many times before. rumors can get started and people can say things that they heard rather than what they have seen. i want to be careful about reports of concerns just to make sure they're backed up. i'll talk with a storm chaser who managed to survive. two days as the storm slammed into the bahamas. leave no man behind. or child. or other child. or their new friend. or your giant nephews and their giant dad. or a horse. or a horse's brother, for that matter. the room for eight, 9,000 lb towing ford expedition. this is the family who wanted to connect... to go where they could explore and experience adventure in unexpected places... ♪ who were inspired by different cultures ♪ and found that the past can create new memories... leading them to discover: we're woven together by the moments we share. for everywhere you go, expedia has everything you need, all in one place. what sore muscles? what with advpounding head? ..

the abaco, there's the mainland and then the keys.e prime minister would have issued a mandatory evacuation notice for the people on the keys. we traveled to the island of abaco. asking people to take the warnings to heart. a lot of persons decided to stay on the keys. when we look at sweden key, there's 125 people on that key. only seven persons heeded to the warnings and evacuated the key. on grand key, there's 400 persons on that key. on that key, only 88 persons are left. there are low-lying areas in unregulated communities in the bahamas. specifically in abaco, where document and undocumented people reside. we walked through those areas with a blow horn, trying to send the message to the persons. no matter the nationality, they just want to evacuate and to get to higher ground and safe shelters on the island. a lot of people did not heed the warnings on the keys. >> i was listening earlier this morning. the window to leave now, if you wanted to try to evacuate, that's come and gone. they are stuck where they are. thank you so muc

they're shooting this over great abaco island.t know if is this marsh harbor or elsewhere. but it just goes on and on and on. >> yeah, and i don't think it's going to be specific to one area like you said. i think this damage is going to be so widespread as we're able to get in other areas, not only in abacos, but grand bahama island. i think a large portion of the bahamas will look a lot like this. no matter where you go. it's incredibly sad. it's excruciating to watch, as you said. >> what is just beyond these homes and trucks and cars just toppled like toys, what's the water situation, the floodwater -- obviously in certain pictures, you don't see it as bad, but in others, it's so high. >> right. and that's the way it works. >> oh, wow. >> the storm surge, it's pushing water in. and especially in grand bahama island. it could take a while. the storm's going to have to pull away from there for the water to actually go back to normal levels. i mean, you had so much energy and so much momentum with the storms that the water pushin

i honestly believe abaco is finished. i think abaco will not recover until the next ten years.ything is gone. absolutely everything is gone. a few miles off shore, the crew of a british ship, the rfa mounts bay, is spearheading what looks to be a massive relief operation. the united nations believes more than 70,000 people here are in urgent need of food and water. but the aim is to evacuate as many as possible to neighbouring islands, not least because those who remain face being homeless for months. dorian, for its part, has now headed out to sea, weaker than it was a week ago but still capable of doing serious damage. it's expected to make landfall again in nova scotia, canada, sometime this weekend. david willis, bbc news. joining us now is clint watson, reporter with tv station, eyewitness news. thank you forjoining us. you have been out examining some of the affected parts of the island, particularly abaco, what is the situation at? pretty much what you have been hearing commentary by people talking about it, it is disastrous. things are flatting, nothing is operable, it

what's happened in abaco? do you have relatives and friends there ?but every indication is, it'sjust a very difficult, challenging, catastrophic situation. at the press briefing today, they seem to be saying that they were waiting for an all clear status in certain areas before they could get responders in. there was an indication that us helicopters did bring the engine to princess margaret hospital here in nassau. another colleague and i stop by that hospital briefly this afternoon. one of the staff is there showed me how some of the lights weren't working, that there may be a power cut of some sort. nassau itself was impacted, on a much more modest scale. there was driving rain, wind, and an elongated lightning storm last night that lit up the sky for several hours. this is the fourth yearin several hours. this is the fourth year ina several hours. this is the fourth year in a row that's seen a category 5 storm. some say this area hasn't really recovered from storm matthew. they say this makes storm matthew look like nothing. absolutely. i did hear

aleem maqbool, bbc news, on the abaco islands of the bahamas.o unidentified projectiles into the sea, according to the south korean military. the launch comes just a few hours after pyongyang said it was willing to hold denuclearisation talks with washington in late september, the first concrete offer of talks since the summit between donald trump and kim jong—un broke down in hanoi in february. so that was the news from pyongyang but earlier on monday, president trump declared that the talks with the taliban are dead. he said he cancelled talks due to be held over the weekend at camp david because the militants killed a us service member. mr trump explained his decision. we had a meeting scheduled. it was my idea and it was my idea to the —— terminated. when i heard very simply they killed one of our soldiers and 12 innocent other people i said there is no way i'm meeting on that basis, there is no way i'm meeting. michael kugelman is south asia senior associate at the wilson center and has been following the afghan peace process. he joins us f

oftentimes we forget about the keys around the abaco in particular.lves, we have to put tremendous focus on those keys because we have residents living on those keys as well. we have, as i said before a lot of resources currently in the area. a lot more moving to the area. our national emergency management agency is hard at work. the entire arm of the government is hard at work. we're grateful to nations from around the world coming and demonstrating their support to us here in the bahamas. as well as nongovernment organizations and local and private organizations. the support is overwhelming. we have to structure it in such a way that it does not go counter to what we're seeking to achieve. so with that, i thank you so much. i turn it over now to charles a. bowers. >> we're working hand and hand in partnership with the bahamian government. we're communicating nearly every minute with different parts of the government under the leadership of the prime minister and national emergency agency. there's been some false information that the bahamian governm

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>> we're about 112 miles from abaco, probably a little more from grand bahama. i can tell you because i'm familiar with abaco, an area 30 miles south of marsh harbor didn't sustain the degree of damage that marsh harbor and the keys in northern abaco sustained. it is really weird how, you know, that major damage was relegated to the area around marsh harbor, treasure key, and now into grand bahama. what we received here were basically out of band rains from the outer bands, winds probably up to some minor tropical force winds here in new providence and on paradise island and at the atlantis. so it's just remarkable. we're obviously very grateful and feeling very, very -- i can't even describe our emotions with regard to how we're feeling about our loved ones and family in abaco. as far as helping, we are all here gearing toward how we can get stuff barged off. nassau is the capital. it is the center of commerce. and so, fortunately, we're in a position to get everything staged here. as soon as we receive the all clear, there will be a whole lot of people boating

this isn't just abaco., which is another island where many people are still trapped and there are still search and rescue missions ongoing. >> jared higgs, reporter for "the nassau guardian" in the bahamas. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. such a dire situation. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> again, a remarkable situation there. i want to reiterate the news we've just received within the past hour from the office of the prime minister in the bahamas. as of this time last night we had the very sad news that there was a rise in the death toll to 30. we are just hearing within the last few minutes the death toll in the bahamas has risen to 43. the rescue efforts there continue. people still do need rescuing and evacuating and the resources that are going to need to be devoted there not just in the long term in terms of rebuilding but in terms of right now getting people out of what are still desperate situations. >> good evening, rachel. the bahamas situation

now from manuel he sent this update from north abaco island . we're in the community of blackwood on the island of abaco in the bahamas this is one of the most northern most islands and subsequently one of the worst hit areas by hurricane dorian again that category 5 storm that took 36 hours to make it across abaco to make it across grand bahama leaving a path of destruction this is about as bad as hurricane damage can get i want to give you a sense of what we're looking at here in this community if you can look behind me this is the home of teresa a woman that we spoke to earlier today who is picking up the pieces she's lived here for 50 years and is left with absolutely nothing and this is a scene that we're left with this is what we've been seeing all morning with people walking up and down the street some people sifting through debris others walking toward the airstrip waiting for help to arrive waiting for disaster relief to get here we have heard that the royal navy as well as the u.s. coast guard are beginning to fly disaster relief to th

but these pictures from abaco it is huge areas, fields leveled.er said in t taped piece, he's seen a lot o disasters in his work, but this, he said he's seen nothing like this. >> woodruff: john yang reporting for us from nassau in the bahamas. john, thank you so much. >> woodrf: william brangham gets another report from the region. >> brangham: let's find out some mo about the relief efforts from government officials in the region. elizabeth rileexis the deputy utive director of the caribbean disaster emergency management ancy, the agency ordinating response and assessmentns teams to theshard hit areas.sh joins me from the island of barbados. here. yovery much for being i wonder if you could give us a sense of how things are now. >> based on the input from reports from our team on the ground the relief effort commenced in th two northern islands of the bahamas that have been impacted. what we understand is that the rol caribbean cruise line is providing meals for those persons who have been impacted on grand bahama at this time. >> reporter: the

when we were there, we flew to abaco and went to several locations. there were hundreds crowded at airports. fresh treasure -- treasure key, waiting to get on to charter flights. to get on to humanitarian flights. the u.s. coast guard has evacuated 239 people this week. they will resume their evacuation flights today. we spoke with families who had sat on the tarmacs all day. the feels-like temperature was 98 degrees on friday. one family i spoke with, they were just about to build a chopper, a family of four rode out the storm together. but there was not enough room on one chopper for everyone. we brought 14-year-old malik marow and now 22-year-old, today's his birthday, kenley victor, on to our chopper. and as we took off, this was their first opportunity to get an appreciation for the scale of what dorian damaged. they had no access to television. there's no power. cell phone service is spotty at best. when they got to see abaco, kenley looked out the window and shook his head. he could not believe it. then we heard percent of malik's -- heard part

i lived on abaco all my life. through hurricane which was a 5 also but i tell people this was like a 10. i mean, everything is gone. there's nothing left. our standing, there's not much left to it. the structures are -- some are standing. some are completely gone. in the mainland, marsh harbor, i understand hundreds and hundreds of people are dead. i still don't have family members that are accounted for yet. >> simply put, as we said here last night, the bahamas will never be the same. the stories coming out of the abaco islands in the northern bahamas, as you saw right there, heartbreaking, chilling. as we mentioned, the death toll in the bahamas officially at 30. that is widely expected to rise. several reporters said today they are personally aware of much higher numbers. they're just yet unconfirmed by the bahamian government. dorian was parked over the bahamas for the better part of two days. abaco islands have suffered catastrophic damage. people there who are desperate. people who are dying, waiting for he

those are the abacos islands, just devastated.sted online to help the victims of hurricane dorian. you can go to cnn.com/impact. >>> hurricane dorian barrelling its way up the east coast. outer bands expected to hit georgia later today. the mayor of tibe island joins us next on how his city is preparing. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. som

aleem maqbool, bbc news, in thed abaco isof the bahamas. nada: the former president of zimbabwe robert mugabe has died at age 95. credited for leading the independence war against white minority rule, he was then criticized for a presidency which stretched nearly four decades that was marked by r brutression and economic mismanagement. he was finally overthrown in a coup and died in a singapore hospital. from zimbabwe, this report. a warning, there are flashing imag. reporter: he was once zimbabwe's liberator, leading a war against white minority rule. but by the end, the adulation president robert muge once enjoyed was gone. he cemented his power, winning overwhelmingly elections in 1980. as leader of a new nation, he set about eating a better country than the one he inherited. he spent massively on educationr and intructural development, building a thriving black middle class and one of the most literate populations on the continent. but there was a vicious, ruthless side to the statesman. between 1983 and 1987, mugabe deployed military u

the abaco islands forever scarred now by mass destruction.e 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. >> oh my god. >> okay, okay, okay. you're okay. you're going to be okay. >> i know, i know. >> reporter: we arrived by helicopter in man-o-war, embracing his wife shanna after days of not knowing if she was dead or alive. shanna hunker down with friends in a seaside home until the roof blew off and they all scrambled. this is what kept you alive? >> this little room kept us alive. this is it. we came in and hunkered down, and shanna was on the ground crying, and we were just trying to -- >> i was hysterical. >> reporter: what did it sound like in here at the time? >> it was loud. >> there was a lot of crashing. all the crash and banging and whirling. >> and stuff we thought was coming through this wall. >> reporter: so many in the abaco islands lived through hours that resembled a horror movie, exposed to w

hurricane dorian has left behind epic devastation in the abacos.ell reports, urgent rescue efforts are now under way. >> reporter: wednesday, we saw a steady flow, not a mass everyone amount, but a steady flow of evacuees transported from abaco to nassau. the stories they are telling, they really are searing, but we're also hearing emotional stories from people waiting, waiting to hear from friends and relatives who they haven't heard from since the storm hit. megan and raven arrived at nassau's airport early wednesday morning to wait for three evacuees from the bahamas abaco. >> we haven't had any direct contact with either our mother, aunt our grandmother since the hurricane hit abaco on sunday, so we're hoping that they'll be evacuated soon and we can see them when they arrive here. >> reporter: u.s. coast guard and royal british navy teams have plucked scores of people from the southern island. stephen rushed to a clinic in marsh harbor for shelter after his roof started to tear away at the height of the storm three days before he was rescued.

that's in abaco.his is part of what he saw. >> reporter: the strongest storm to ever hit the bahamas, the strongest storm on the planet this year. this is what those superlates look up close. this business apparently in the 180-mile-per-hour winds just collapsed on to it. you can see it here, what this was is not decipherable of what's left here. but let me take you to this side because the only thing left here are stairs and the beginning of a porch. i can't even tell what was here, those winds were so strong. for nine hours, from one point from the eye of dorian approached abaco, came on land, to the other side of the eye, exited, nine hours those winds were here with gusts up to 225 miles per hour. as far you can see from marsh harbor, there is damaged. this area is decimated and it will take a long time to rebuild. >> victor, thank you so much. i know you watch this and think you want to do something but you don't know what. well, we want to help you find a way. help relief here in the bahamas and

we'll get a live report from abaco island. steve harrigan is on the ground where one woman says the monster storm was like a tsunami. >> i've never seen nothing like that. >> shepard: also, a former cheerleader on trial accused of murdering her newborn daughter. she claims she didn't do it but prosecutors are using her own text messages and internet searches against her. plus, the feds are now telling people a new warning. stop vaping. at least until we can figure out what is going on after word of a third mystery death from a lung illness. now a new clue about what might be causing this. that's new and our reporting begins now. our reporting begins with what investigators are calling a harrowing story of what happened when fire broke out on a scuba diving boat off california. 34 people killed after being trapped in their bunks below deck as the flames roared. no one could help them. it happened early on monday morning near santa cruz island about 25 miles south of santa barbara. investigators there and federal investigators s

i honestly believe abaco is finished. i think abaco will not recover until the next ten years.uk is distributing shelter and ration packs across affected communities. but even those of them who have been doing this through powerful hurricanes of recent years, told us they'd never seen needs as great as this. aleem maqbool, bbc news, the abaco islands. less than half of eu citizens currently living in the uk have so far applied for the right to live and work here after brexit. but there are concerns that some people have encountered problems with the scheme, and alex forsyth has been talking to some of those affected. lily bourrier has lived and worked around bristol for more than 15 years. originally from france, she married an englishman and has two children both born in the uk. with brexit on the horizon, she applied under a government scheme to make sure she could stay here after, but more than two months later hadn't had a yes. i love my life here. i got my working life here and i love myjob. and my children are growing up here. i believe they've got their future here, but