bahamaians at the capital's ferry terminal are anxious to send essentials to family and friends in freeport. >>they don't have no foodstuff, nowhere to buy it because the food stores overflowed. >>reporter: this ferry will make its first trip to grand bahama island since hurricane dorian devastated it over the weekend. this shows you the scale of the effort to get to the hardest hit areas. behind me, folks lined up to buy a ticket to get on the ferry to freeport. these supplies will sit along 16,000 pounds of goods sent by american airlines for said staffers. operations agent darcel radon says her family is stranded. >>it's so terrifying. it's really hard, you know. >>reporter: we will be aboard this vessel and be a part of its nine-hour, overnight journey to freeport. but there has been a further delay. the captain's assistant tells us they're still cleaning up the main port there on grand bahama island, so it can receive this aid. norah. >>o'donnell: all right, errol. thank you. hopefully that gets there soon. meteorologist megan glaros from our chicago station wbbm is tracking dorian. an

a brave crew of bahamaians have gone out, risking their lives in dangerous conditions to pick up people in their boats, in their jet skis and get them to safety. but at this point, gasoline is running low. there are not enough boats. some of these boats are no bigger than row boats. the prime minister of the bahamas has said that this is the worst disaster this island has ever faced. clearly, authorities in the capital of nassau don't have all the resources. they're asking and receiving resources from the united states and even though the airport here is shut, it is under water. lot of roads remain unpassable. people on this island are hopeful now that the weather has lifted that help is on its way. john? >> patrick oppman and his crew doing remarkable work as well under difficult circumstances. city of miami dispatching firefighters and medics to the bahamas to help with the recovery that promises to be a weeks' long if not months' long struggle. patients were medevac'd this morning to the hospital in in s nassau. how many more people are in urgent need of help? coordinating rescue tea

the death toll now rising to 30 with it expected to soar as bahamaians dig through the rubble that was once their lives. plus breaking news. the august jobs report just released with a number coming in just below expectations. we have a lot to cover but we must start with a brand new chapter in the democratic 2020 race set to be rewritten on stage at an arena in manchester, new hampshire tomorrow. that is where 19 of the democrats seeking the party nomination will be speaking and the stakes couldn't be higher. the vast majority of new hampshire's political movers and shakers have not endorsed anyone yet. that means a good speech or a good showing this weekend could earn candidates critical support in the months leading up to next year's all important first in the nation primary. in fact, eight, eight of the candidates are already in the granite state holding events in nearly a dozen different towns tl throughout the day. let's bring in the reporters with them. our own mike memoli is with the biden campaign in laconia. vaughn hillyard is covering kamala harris's campaign in manchester.

is that because bahamaians have lived through so many storms before? >> i think that what happened in some areas, we've had flooding but the levels pretty much doubled and almost tripled in some areas from previous storms so people felt a sense of comfort because they would have elevated their homes to the water mark but it exceeded that. and when it exceeded that you're talking about the ocean basically consuming buildings so this wasn't wind damage. it was really the ocean that came onshore and pounded waves against structures. >> it is amazing what you are going through. what a hero you've been already. if you have one message for people here, what is it? >> i would say, just, you know, keep the spotlight on this place. i know there's a lot of people that need help. i'm fortunate that i have a lot of resources around me but there are a lot of people here that really don't have the resources to help themselves and you're talking about just the basic necessities. everything was gone, just wiped away. >> desean, thank you so much for joining us and hel

core of the hurricane are not as strong as they were a couple of days ago, when they devastated the bahamaian has actually expanded greatly in size. we have got hurricane force winds extending out to about 60 miles from the centers and tropical storm force winds extending out 175 miles. so it's becoming a larger storm. it's holding about constant in terms of intensity. holding a pressure of 963 millibars in the eye. and the emphasis here is that a large. [broken audio] steve: we're having a little -- there you go. keep going, richard. >> excuse me? steve: keep going. >> i was just saying this is not good news for the residents of south carolina because storm surge is becoming more and more of a threat. the other piece of bad news i have is that the storm continues to gain longitude. it's moving to the northwest. it's not moving in a straight northerly directions. the more it moves to the west, the less likely it is that it is going to miss the south carolina coast. steve: right. >> it's becoming more and more likely it's going to strike the south carolina coast directly some time thursday. st

the death toll now rising to 30 with it expected to soar as bahamaians dig through the rubble that was

bahamaians at the capital's ferry terminal are anxious to send essentials to family and friends in freeport. >> they don't have no foodstuff, nowhere to buy it because the food stores overflowed. >> reporter: this ferry will make its first trip to grand bahama island since hurricane dorian devastated it over the weekend. this shows you the scale of the effort to get to the hardest hit areas. behind me, folks lined up to buy a ticket to get on the ferry to freeport. these supplies will sit along 16,000 pounds of goods sent by american airlines for said staffers. operations agent darcel radon says her family is stranded. >> it's so terrifying. it's really hard, you know. >> reporter: we will be aboard this vessel and be a part of its nine-hour, overnight journey to freeport. but there has been a further delay. the captain's assistant tells us they're still cleaning up the main port there on grand bahama island, so it can receive this aid. norah. >> all right, errol. thank you. hopefully that gets there soon. meteorologist megan glaros from our chicago station wbbm is tracking dorian. and mega