waiting, for harrison county and julie for biloxi. the hurricane flags go up, the warnings go out. >> the red cross centers will be open. >> bring your garbage cans inside. all windows should be nailed and boarded. all residents of the lower lying areas are advised to evacuate by noon today. johannesburg or jackson. >> transportation will be provided and shelter. please bring the things you will need. the adviceple take to get out and cars start screaming north. early sunday afternoon, camille camille brushes past. then it starts on the louisiana don't. -- louisiana delta. the river, the levees are beginning to crumble under pressure of went and water. finally, the levy rakes. -- the levee breaks. time to get out. now the few who linger are running for their lives north to new orleans to safety. by late afternoon, a vast winds are touching the mississippi coast. the slow pokes are still gathering up. 100,000 people have listened and the young whoind think nothing can ever heard them. -- hurt them. the thrill seekers, the stubborn. abo

from biloxi to base st. louis, everything is in shambles. -- bay st.hing is in shambles. down the delta, it is not much better. were the levee broke, there was sixth out -- where the levee broke, there was 6000 homes. the damage is in orris but the casualty list is lower. mississippi is losing on every count. survivors are struggling, dazed by what they have been through and seeing how little is left. >> it has got to be here somewhere. these are the houses from this vicinity. neighborhood.is and crying] >> some are lucky. others less so. >> you cannot imagine devastation like this. we thought we could find our homes. we saw it leveled, we know whoever stayed would not live here. >> here are apartments where some of the tenants refused to get out. >> the water won't get that high. ,>, in, -- come in, come in welcome to the hurricane party. >> 24 decided to ride this out. 23 died. one youngster got out on a mattress and lived. person. is a forgotten she went -- camille is almost forgotten. she is just a heavy thunderstorm into tennessee. east to thens a

nightmises to be a long in biloxi. in gulfport, have a dozen trained volunteer rescue teams and heavy-duty trucks are answering the first calls for help. >> we need an ambulance at the nicholas grove shelter. >> by 8:00, power are falling, starting fires and winds are whipping them out of control. even new orleans on the outer edge of the storm, camille is beginning to cause problems. canal,he industrial another levee breaks and begins flooding. quite the eye of the storm is still over two hours away. the wind is strong, one can understand up in it. the rain is torrential, streets are flooded, we are cut off from the outside world in our motel here. there is no power, everything is black. >> rescue wretched city control. >> already one of gulfport heavy-duty rescue teams are in trouble. >> rescue red has gone out on one mission. the truck is in the rising tides. >> to hell with the radio and equipment, abandon your machines, power poles are falling, live wires are sizzling in the streets. staying out now is suicide dow

we will start flying irma from biloxi mississippi with the air force reserve. currently being flown down in the caribbean. we normally work out of saint croix but they were hit pretty good. that forward operating location, we pulled back to cure sou to fly the storms 24/7. >> colonel, thank you for telling us these are civilian airmen, from the air reserve. what actually do they do? are they in the c-130s? >> correct, we're flying the wc-130 j by lockheed martin. it's a fabulous aircraft. we have ten here on the ramp and our crew is five individuals and pilot and co-pilot and weather officer and navigator and load master. our job is to take off and fly to an altitude of 10,000 feet, penetrate the eyewall of the hurricane, drop at the request of the national hurricane center. gather data and send it via satellite uplink to the national hurricane center in miami. they are the experts here in the united states. they plug all of that information and from there we see it out on the worldwide web, all of the models to look at. >> walk us through what it is like speci

this was an -- in biloxi. there are people standing with shells of their homes. it looked like a nuclear bomb went off. the destruction was so horrific. and there was this gentleman standing in front of his home that was gone, that was just reduced to shreds of wood. and the only thing left was the base of the cement stairs that led to his front door. that was the only thing standing. and the president walked over to him, and what really struck me was the fact that -- there were media there, but they were down the street. and the president sat down, just to meet with this gentleman. and to hear about his story. and it was not done for the photos, it was not done for the press, it was a real moment of comforting. at that moment. this guy just lost his entire home, and who knows what else, in hurricane katrina. but it was definitely an example of just the, graphically, the loss, at that moment, a few days after the hurricane. reporter: and your photo tells a different story than another photo, or the image, of bush in the helicopter. can you speak to the difference

the bays rise with the gulf, so if the gulf rises 19 feet, biloxi bay rises 19 feet. the bay of st. louis rises 19 feet or in its case more like 30 feet. that mean if you if you're in bay st. louis, the storm surge is tearing things apart on the gulf side but it's also tearing things apart on the north side, on the inland side. jean taylor their congressman from bay st. louis, who us home was oblitz -- obliterated from m surge out of the bay. in camille he wouldn't have anything happen because he lived on the north side of bay st. louis, but because the bays rose and distheir destruction, that was part of the shredding you saw, the shredding of timber, of trees, of leaves, of all sorts of things. there was debris everywhere, as i say. having seen that, and remembering it very vividly, i thought to myself in that helicopter, how many more bodies are going to be buried down there? under all that debris? if you would have told me 238, i would have said you're the most optimistic pollianist person i've ever been around. but that's what it was. part of the reason was because of the incre

she's from biloxi, mississippi. and, you know, to echo everyone's point, it's great to see america come together from all over the country to dive in and help. if you look at social media -- if we are a terrible country, watch the news what's going on, we are a wonderful country. we just ask the presidents let the results speak. >> eboni: you look at the community effort -- going back to your point, it has been enormous. i think i was also in the gulf area. i was in new orleans with your wife during katrina. there was so many lessons that we learned as a nation to how to respond to this. i think you would agree with that from andrew, hurricane hugo. we just got so much better as a country with how to respond from this from a federal government, state government, and a community level. >> last year, they weren't so good at this. fema has really come a long way. i give a lot of credit to the new fema director. he's only been on the jumper over over two gold months, but a year ago in baton rouge, a no-name storm droppe

google biloxi, mississippi, look at the grand casino that was washed on shore. those pictures will change your find. it is amazing what the force of water can do to concrete and rebar when it's a form surstorm. >> for people just joining us, the 11:00 p.m. advisory put this storm at a category 5, in large part because of the atmospheric readings that were achieved tonight because of the air force reservists in this very wing. lieutenant colonel, just a flying question. i've heard it said that you guys sometimes fly at a 35 degree flip, meaning you are -- you are flying in effect sideways in order to go straight because of the wind? >> that's correct. you must be a pilot, because you used the term "crabbing." the winds are counterclockwise. the auto pilot sets up a predetermined track that we fly. when we do that to get to the eye, we're crabbing to the left. we're sort of flying sideways as we approach the center of the storm. once we look for the lower center of pressure, we annually steer the aircraft to find it. >> i am not a pilot for the health and safety o