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The highest hill there that have some walls that are standing by the roofs are ripped off. those who decided to stay here, im sad to report, are likely dead, buried under the rubble. we met a search and rescue team here that flew in from miami fire department. they came through. they are looking for the possibility now six days after this hurricane that there might be a survivor but theyre also realistic that its likely that they are going to come upon the dead, not the living at this point. its...

Left is a satellite image of marsh harbor before the storm and on the right is what it looks like now. the storm surge more than 23 feet. winds were 185 miles an hour. and that area is gone. green the turtle cay east of the marsh harbor winds and surge there leveling almost everything. paula newton is outfront live in nassau. beginning with you, paula, what are people telling you there? >> they are telling us that they cant believe when they look at the pictures that they even survived the storm...

Were ten of us, three families and in a solid concrete classroom. and when i say moving the kids the boards blew off the windows and the shutters started to cave in. and five of us were holding boards against the shutters to keep them from caving in. we were wrapping them in blankets and putting them under a table. the parents were there and we were just doing what we had to do. i know exactly what to do and where to put people to keep them safe so i kind of took the leadership role there. >> 26...

To his 20,000 twitter followers, i feel like a rocket is about to take off. this is going to get ugly. he was right on both counts. also reported the schoolhouse he was saying was near the hurricanes eye wall, where the winds are the highest and most destructive. related to his followers the children being moved to a safe space and being wrapped in blankets, then the social media play went dark by dark for two days, when dorian crushed the bahamas with 185-mile-per-hour winds. the hurricane itse...

Warning, the images and descriptions of this next report are tough to watch and hear. the official death toll has risen to 30 with thousands of homes destroyed. but the unofficial death toll could skyrocket from there when you actually get to see the worst hit areas like abaco island. correspondent steve harrigan is there tonight. >> bret, im standing here on abaco island in the bahamas on what was someones house just a week ago in what was someones neighborhood also just a week ago. this was no...

North carolina as a category one storm. heres pictures. the system brought serious flooding to the barrier island. officials report the hurricane washed out a bridge and stranded hundreds of people on o ocracok island. meantime, the nightmare in the bahamas escalates. at least 80 people now confirmed dead. hundreds still missing. 30 people dead. i meant to say 30. the countrys top health official says the final body count could be, according to him, staggering. morticians are on the ground embal...

Safe concrete school." compare the storm to being in washing machine to a man whos seen the inner core of four doesnt hurricanes hes a harvard educated historian who worked in the film industry and started his own branding advertising firm. if you find yourself evacuating a storm, the guy coming the other way followed by steve harrigan. >> martha: hes joining me now now. you heard from the science channel hurricane man which premieres 9:00. what was this like? >> unbelievable. so many hurricanes...

Building? i did not want to be caught in this 185-mile-per-hour winds. some folks caught up here were killed by flying debris. we all piled into three cars to mow one of them is mine because those are the only three that were working. we managed to get a mile away to a government building will be rode it out, one side of me wanted to stay put because i did not want to see that there. >> martha: they were small children with you. you all were wrapping the children in blankets to keep them safe? >...

Higher. a man said he was treading water with his 5-year-old son trying to cling to the roof of their home when a powerful gust blew the young boy into the raging flood waters. the father says his son was reaching for me and calling me, "daddy" as the storm swept him away. our steve harrigan is on the ground live on abaco right now. steve, what are you seeing? what are you hearing? >> shepard, im standing in what used to be a house here on abaco island. the foundation is left what used to be som...

Eye wall and is now in the eye. now, to get a center landfall declared by the hurricane center, you need the center of the eye to kind of go over land. we may have to wait a little further up. but this right here, this area, this bright pink in here, the dark red. this is a heavy band. this is the northern eye wall. this is whats left on the powerful eye that once had 185 mile-per-hour wind. now its down to 90. we could get hayer gusts in here and get some damage. higher tide was between 1:00 an...