Tracking dorian for us at this hour, nbc s david guerra joins us from naggs head and morgan chesky is joining us from the bahamas. morgan, we ll go to you first. the rescue efforts, daunting to say the least. reporter: yeah, alex, good afternoon. sorry. we are having some interference issues because of the active rescue efforts that are ongoing behind me. we have military helicopters that have been flying out as of first light going to abaco island which took the brunt of dorian s power when that hurricane 5 moved through here. the thing that we re starting to see today that we haven t seen in prior days is the relief effort starting to ramp up. we have tents 100 yards behind us that have basically opened up for everyone flying in from abaco island to give them food, water and a little bit of
Shall hash are where we visited hours after the airport reopened after being submerged from dorian. people there as you mentioned packing the ports, the airports, finding hoping to find a way off the island which they tell me they can t even call a home because simply nothing is left behind. at least half the buildings there are either damaged or destroyed on the island and on neighboring grand bahama but from the damage we witnessed first hand the number seem low because the damage it doesn t end. and in every direction you look. so right now relief really picking up in nassau as dozens upon dozens of people arrive on flights, getting a little food, water to hopefully reunite with family or at least begin the long process of recovery, alex. it s extraordinary because they have to pack so much patience together through this and really critical things they have to get through food, water, getting medicine trying to get off the island to a place to sleep, shower. it s just remarkable
And months ahead is when the ground game comes into place that is actually going to deliver us the win. i am very excited about this being a moment in america where we begin to refocus in on the campaign. so i m really excited about building to win. we are prepared to fight for our country, to fight for the soul of our country. it is a fight borne out of love and this is a fight we will win. and that last person you just heard from that we talked to heading into the arena was senator kamala harris from california. she s now taking the stage in downtown manchester. vaughan hilliard, thank you for that. let s go to mike memele who s nearby in a hallway but you can still hear the crowds behind you. what are people saying to you? reporter: well, alex, i ve been roaming around the hallways of the convention all morning. i think we might have found the best spot all morning.
Is vaughn hilliard and mike memele. vaughan, i m going to start with you here. not only have you been talking with supporters and campaign volunteers, you ve spoken to several candidates. in general, how are they feeling today? reporter: exactly. things started rolling around 2, 3 a.m. this morning, alex. to give you an idea, you ve got 19 presidential candidates here. the new hampshire primary is five months away. this is an opportunity. each of them have ten minutes to speak here at the state convention. you have 1400 delegates here in new hampshire from the state party. those are state officials, those are your party activists from all over the state. they all descend here on this saturday and this is their opportunity to not only hear from the candidates but also engage with the field organizers that the campaigns have brought onto the ground. we also caught up with a couple of the dants that met up with those volunteers and organizers as they entered the arena this morning. this
Will cast a majority of the primary vote in a handful of states on supertuesday. democratic strategist put it that way. i don t see any path for biden to win without south carolina. elena beverly marmry clifton and rick valencia and stephanie tyler. elena set up nicely for the conversation. the last poll out of south carolina had biden at 36% more than double the support of any other democrat. how much of in is about service in the obama administration? well, again, alex i would start with a word of caution here and would remind folks of what happened in 2008 where hillary clinton was ahead of barack obama in the early days of 2007 over a hard fought primary battle with african-american voters. and it wasn t until south carolina where barack obama and after iowa then new hampshire he loses in new hampshire and then wins in south carolina. and that s where we saw him and