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Seeing the outermost bands of the storm passed through. weve had periods of driving rain. weve had gusty winds, right around 30 miles an hour gusts u to 68. these areas have flooded out even going into the hotel right up on the top of this boardwalk so police are really enforcing the mandatory evacuation in thi area. we are beginning to see intensifying bands of the storm passed through. still it is nothing like the winds and rain that was over th bahamas. images coming in from the bahamas showi...

Or you get entire neighborhoods wiped off the mat. thats what we are seeing in this aerial footage of abaco island and grand bahama island. 2.5 days of intense category 5 winds, 185 miles per hour. you can see the physical devastation right off the bat. but what these people have gone through will only really know in a few days. there is some getting off the helicopters, stunned throughout the country. this is life and death for let people. theyre staggering into safety now, harris. >> harris: t...

Know, people here are pretty optimistic as, the tide comes in, you can see behind me, it is a pretty strong tide already. but they know they have dodged a bullet, they see in the bahamas. whether or not they will have a water issue, flooding today, that is anybodys guess. they are hopeful at this point, guys. ainsley: thank you, griff. steve: lets go to janice dean. im tracking some of the waves just offshore from where griff is right now. just to the east of the eye of the storm which is east o...

Number to grow those full scope of the disaster largely unknown. joining me now, from accuweathe on the ground there in the bahamas. jonathan, thank you for joining us tonight. weve heard the descriptions an seeing the images, what can you tell us youre experiencing wit people there on the ground? >> essence of hopelessness and you can imagine why. youre on a highland in the middle of the atlantic ocean an a lot of that ocean is now righ in front of your house or over your house in many cases un...

Spread, to say the least. the focus for rescue and recovery now is on the places in the bahamas that have been hardest hit. its all just almost impossible to visually take if he what youre looking at here, but this is what it looks like as of now in the abaco islands, which is part of the northern bahamas. this is less than 200 miles off the florida coast. hurricane dorian hit abaco on sunday as a category 5 hurricane with winds that reached more than 185 miles per hour. this is the most powerfu...

Youre looking at here, but this is what it looks like as of now in the abaco islands, which is part of the northern bahamas. this is less than 200 miles off the florida coast. hurricane dorian hit abaco on sunday as a category 5 hurricane with winds that reached more than 185 miles per hour. this is the most powerful storm to ever have been known to have hit the bahamas. prime minister announced just in this past hour that the known death toll in his country has risen to seven. before tonight it...

185-mile-an-hour winds, i know theres storm surge and it also dumped dozens of inches of rain, so i expected to see something very, very significant. >> you said youre working on getting people evacuated and the medical attention they need. if you had to guesstimate, how many more people are on the islands and need to get out or need medical attention and right now theyre just waiting or havent been found? >> its really hard to estimate. what i can tell you, though, is today is the first day wev...

Kerry sanders touches down in so the bahamas so make sure youwn u stay right here for that coverage throughout the course of the day. meanwhile, the ba ge thr oue, the bahamas isthat beginning to scope the damage left by hurricane dorian.icane what theyre saying is catastrophic destruction that has reshapedestr portions ofuct entire country after an onslaught very few places on s n earth have ever experienced the 185-mile-per-hour winds, 43 inches of rain, 23 foot storm surges, all of that for a...

This model is shifting potentially. thank you so much. >> you bet. >> its going to be a tough night along that coast. were learning more about the dire situation in the bahamas after hurricane dorian dumped 40 inches of rain, 185 mile per hour winds at the max over that country for 40 continuous hours. at least seven people have been killed so far as far as we know. the red cross is estimating more than 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. 62,000 people on the abaco islands and grand bahama...

>> please pray for us. pray for abaco, please, im begging yall. my baby is 4 months old. please pray for us. >> its been horrendous. the wind, you would never believe it. it was like people were in the attic moving pianos around. i was concerned that the roof would fly off and id go out into the wind. >> im sorry -- >> its okay. >> in all of my years, ive never seen anything like this at all. i pray to god we never experience this again. >> reporter: and brooke, you and i know what is likely nex...