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So right now they are waiting for a damage assessment team to come take a look at the situation and let them know that it is okay, that it is safe to get back on board and continue looking for those four people. they did rescue another 20 people from this crew in the early morning hours sunday. a very difficult mission where some of them were hoisted up into a helicopter. others were lowered, some by fire hose onto boats. now, right now there is concern about how those four people are doing. a l...

The bahamas unrecognizable, the first images from above abaco, showing paradise to paradise lost. >> absolute devastation, and it really is heartbreaking just from the air it looks completely levelled. >> debris fields for miles. houses surrounded by water, and boats littered across the island. >> nbc news correspondent morgan chesky with a look at the devastation from hurricane dorian in the bahamas where relief efforts are underway. >> by the way, richard, you were talking about the scale of t...

Okay. >> reporter: and i dont know if you guys could hear, but all those high pitched beeps, beeping, beeping, you know, punctuated throughout all the debris fields, through all the rubble. what we realized what it was was peoples smoke detectors going off. you think about a smoke detector as something that warns you of an emergency fore coming. it was as though the warnings perhaps hadnt been strong enough. i met with women named sherry who i caught on the beach. she rode out the storm in port ...

This mudslide is in this part of california, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in a very, very small amount of distance. just several miles. were probably about a mile and a quarter from the ocean. and so theyre going to have to go through with these people missing all of these debris fields and see if theres any survivors still in there. then you articulated that another scenario called romero canyon where there are residents they told to shelter in place because there was such a big d...

But this was a home right here that came from somewhere upstream. and this right here is the roof, it is turned upside down. this is a living room. we can see pieces of a couch. and what looks like a tv rights here. and there are peoples belongings in here. and then this over here, that white thing that youre seeing, that is a trunk of a car. the car is standing up on its end. and the car has basically doubled over it. so right now search and rescue crews are going to debris fields like this loo...

They knocked their homes off the foundations. it is one of the things the crews are being very careful with as they go through the debris fields. about half an hour ago there was a break in the work because there was enough flash flood warning that came out. they have resumed work because the rain started to subside. i want to give you a quick picture of what were looking at. its going to load up here. that is the amount of rain that is falling on this area. over here that hill is a basically hi...

And again this storm has not made it the full length of the state yet. also, 70,000 people are in shelters. that is actually good news because that means that people got out and got to a position of safety. we did hear about some power loss in a shelter from drew griffin a little further north from here but no real danger at any of the shelters and thats good news. we spoke to bill weir doing surveillance of the debris fields and the different damage from irma starting in key largo moving north....

June in north carolina. heartbreaking calls from the mississippi delta are still going out to their families tonight. investigators arent sure what brought the plane the down, but the large debris fields suggests the plane was high in the sky when something went wrong. the plane was moving people and equipment from north carolina to california. the kc-130 refueling aircraft has been a military workhorse for decades. [ playing "taps" ] ♪ near the dusty fields where the police continue to work, ...

Decade. its very effective. its a constellation of satellites constantly circling the earth looking for just this kind of event, an explosive event, primarily designed for ballistic missile launches but it can also be used for an explosion in the air. >> so were waiting to find out if what you say is true, colonel, we should be able to find out relatively soon. the satellite should tell us whether the explosion is on the air or in the ground. something we should hear soon. >> exactly. >> mary, w...

Explosive energy, some kind of heat signature but they did not see any trails suggesting something was going up to the sky. >> that is very telling. if theres just a heat flash without something external causing it, what would you say causes that internal heat flash? >> youre going back, i always like to look at other crashes ive worked on in the past. there are several that come to mine, for example, twa 800 where the center fuel tank exploded. in that case, the plane was blown into two or thre...