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And newer construction with the 150 miles per hour building codes. didnt farewell. some had slight damage. many had complete roofs missing and significant damage. even though its homes that were made to with stand the worst probability. not the worst possibility. but the probability. we had 185 miles per hour cat 5. sit on the island for 18 hours. >> you shot this earlier today. by the time you shot this, im wondering where there people on the roof or waiting to be rescued? had that part played ...

That in itself is a record. but dorian ties for the strongest winds weve ever seen made land fall. you would have to go back to 1935 where you had gusts of 185 miles per hour. weve also never seen an atlantic storm gather strength as quickly as this one did, take a look at the radar. for all of the fascination about what it has done, what does that mean about what it does next. we were talking to emmanuel. hes saying that it was stormy just until a couple of hours ago. they have some outer bands...

Things further, shepard. >> shepard: steve harrigan, not surprising. you know, after a disaster like this, steve, when youre on an island and theres 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. its a tough situation to be in. the physical damage is clear when you see the destruction from the air especially. i guess what really impresses me are ...

On his wife and she was trapped. he couldnt find her. the dog found her. he couldnt lift the roof off of her himself. so she was trapped there for 17 hours. they just got here. >> reporter: so under part of a roof with a dog for 17 hours as 185 mile an hour winds and 35 inches of rain swirl around you. one concerning report we are hearing over and over again from people coming off the island and that is that theres violence going on. we havent seen it ourselves, but the fact that the minister of...

Of moments as well at noon eastern time from atlanta, georgia >> were also continuing to watch the devastation in the bahamas. they got slammed with the strongest storm ever category 5, 185 mile-an-hour winds. people are in desperate need of help. supplies are finally on their way. we also have steve harrigan who finally touched down in nassau, bahamas today and bringing us a lot more reports on the devastation there. >> and that devastation is really a stunner. i dont know where you were yester...

>> reporter: we have been seeing the are most band of the storm an hour, the storm surge is the real whisk, you see the tide coming in and getting more violent. in the past even in now named storms low-lying areas like this the hotel on top of this boardwalk. police are enforcing the mandatory evacuation in this area and we are beginning to see intensifying bands of this storm pass through but it is nothing like the wind and rain that was over the bahamas. images coming in from the bahamas showe...

7 deaths have been blamed on the storm but we expect that to grow. the scope of the disaster still largely unknown. jonathan petromalla for accuweather is with us, we have seen the images. what can you tell us. >> reporter: a sense of hopelessness and you can imagine why. you are on an island in the atlantic ocean and a lot of that emotion is right in front of your house or over your house. as we flew over abacus today you have to see it to believe the damage and devastation this storm brought t...

It has become. the main airport in freeport is several feet under water. some of the local hospitals damaged beyond working use. a tremendous challenge. as many as 70,000 people in the wake of this storm are scrambling for food, shelter and medicine and the rescue operation is really gearing up. we saw initially it was just volunteers, first responders, friends, relatives using whatever they had, jet skis, ropes, swimming, strength of will. now the rescue operation is mounting up. the u.s. coast...

There are some islands. steve: until we had that guy on yesterday who explained everything. ainsley: a lot of the cruise ships went on though this island freeport. brian: geraldo goes there all the time knows this thing like the back of his hand. janice dean, getting a first look? janice: worst hurricane to hit that area the northwest bahamas in their history. category 5, 185 mile-per-hour sustained winds at its peak. latest wind gusts along the shore certainly tropical storm force winds 95 mile...

Aid. some of the airports six feet underwater. think about what these people have gone through over the past several days. we had a category 5 hurricane with record level winds, 185 miles per hour sustained winds for two days that sat over the bahamas destroying almost everything in its wake. add to that another 35 inches of rain. people are just really still being discovered. the prime minister put the death toll early on at seven. thats a number were likely to see rise considerably as the scop...