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Water i have on my bottom floor. >> how deep do you think that water is in the video. >> i think by 6 feet. >> my thing is i think these people could be rushed in before. these people are on this street are in dire straits. >> have you been able to contact emergency officials? obviously -- >> my family has, you know, but the story is when its -- when it all calms down. >> sure. >> but, you know, weve been through the worst of it. were on the back end of it now. i would love to see these people i...

Street, which i will show you in just a second, and she actually told us that, look, she didnt bother going downstairs when the sirens went off, because why would she? its safe. nothing has really happened here since the war started. so, she was content just to sit in her office. this here is her office but she was on the fourth floor of this building all of the windows, maybe nine or 10 stories high, every single window of this building completely, completely blown out what likely saved her is ...

An elevator in a Bronx building plunged four stories to the bottom floor, killing one construction supervisor and leaving another worker critically injured, officials and witnesses said. The elevator inside the Bruckner Blvd. building near Lincoln Ave. in Mott Haven plummeted around 8:15 a.m. from the top floor of the four-story building to the first floor, FDNY officials said. A construction ...

You say the bahamian land is no longer, its gone, and you cant recognize these neighborhoods as youre trying to get through them now. what are you -- now that youre able to venture out, what are you hearing from folks? what are you seeing there? >> were still hearing persons in distress, persons who havent heard from their family, particularly on the eastern portion of the island. we are trying to get large equipment to go across the grand bahama highway. we attempted to rescue residents of east...

Jeff paul is near the damage. hes surveying what is left. jeff? >> reporter: yeah, gillian, hard to put into words, this region was already hard hit by flooding, and now it has been devastated by an apparent very powerful tornado. as i step out of the way here, you can see what it did, likely did to this -- this was a motel right here. you can see theres a sign that was up there, some cars that have been damaged, wood all over the place, twisted metal. as we push in a little further, this is the...

Yesterday, going over every detail of the house. certified it safe structurally sound and habitable as is. my uncle and i ironically have studied it closely ourselves. weve started thinking about a few things we would like to do as the next step for the next one. >> neil: like what? >> well, you know, the bottom floor was designed as break-away. it was normal 2 x 4 sheetrock and siding construction on the ground floor. it was swept away like any other construction that was at ground level. but w...

Rose, thank you for joining us. i know that everything is so hard right now. tell us, what is life like for you and the family? >> its devastating. life as we know it is gone. theres nowhere you can walk without rubble and walk mig dog i have to be careful every step she takes. we cant even get out of where i live because the debris piled up so high that they have to do the more important search-and-rescue before they can help the people that are stuck. >> how bad is the house? >> weve got some ...

She takes. we cant even get out of where i live because the debris piled up so high that they have to do the more important search-and-rescue before they can help the people that are stuck. >> how bad is the house? >> weve got some roof damage, siding, broken windows. the bottom floor was totally flooded to waist high. weve lost everything in our cabinets. there was two inches of mud on the bottom of the floors that we had to clean up. it took us two days to get the floor to where we could walk ...

Who would have thought that could have happened that fast. i think he went downstairs and was going to try to secure it and do something with it -- >> it went from just rain residue to probably flood stage in 10, 15 minutes at the most. it went from zero to however high it got, the bottom floor of my house. >> reporter: are you scraped? >> im cut and scraped and everything else. im alive, im alive. >> reporter: you are alive. >> i finally got word to her by satellite radio. she was so happy. >> ...

Surgery. she tries to take care of everybody. shes a good christian woman. she thought she could get through this because the house did fine during opal, the statistics were basically the same. i wasnt here then and i took her word for it. by the time i realized we were in a big mess, but by then it was too late. i knew if we tried to drive out, we would have got caught by the water. we had to do what we did. >> reporter: the only way to get around is walking. ive just been walking and walking a...