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Amateur video capturing the dark cloud wrapped in rain and lightning as it came down out of the sky last night doing sporadic but intense damage to homes, apartment buildings, and businesses in a part of the citys northeast and northwest side. a several thousand still without power. >> i am just thinking out that we are still alive. because it was like 5 minutes before it hit, trying to go upstairs to go to sleep. and it blew in her windows and everything. >> despite all of the damage that you a...

Under the lebanese flag, we see people united under the lebanese flag, there is something for people here that is beautiful about that. the question is how long do the protests stay peaceful? does the prime minister say something today that maybe infuriates people even further? does some of this sectarianism creep in? right now were talking about better wa better wages, a tax break, no more of these measures of austerity that lebanon has dealt with for so long. a lot will be decided today. >> ca...

>> a lot of young people are persuaded by going and hanging out with friends. not you. you have made a massive commitment to this initiative. why? why did you get involved? >> personally i was born and raised in mexico. i lived there for 13 years. in 2015 my town suffered from the climate crisis. i saw flooding and drought. experiencing yourself, thats what makes it hit in a different place. we dont want people to experience the climate to realize we are in a crisis. so when i moved to new york,...

And denitas life was -- it was snatched from under her, stolen. >> reporter: it seemed the whole town turned out on that january day in 2007. denitas close friend, edythe kearns, spoke at the funeral. >> the home going was an emotional day. it was definitely some sadness. but we were trying to, you know, be happy and think about her spirit and life legacy and the way that she would want all of us to go on. but at that time, i think it was just too much and it was overwhelming. >> reporter: denit...

Went straight up my back. >> bullet three. >> then i realized it was for real. i went to close the door and he shot center mass. he hit me here in the hip and straight out my back and past my hip. that one hurt. that hitmy bone. >> if that sounds gruesome, whats next. >> he put the gun to my head and when it was placeded to my head, when i saw him squeeze the trigger i flinched and as i did this it hit me in the eye and came out my ear and got stuck in the wall behind my head. >> those are prett...

I really appreciate it. joining me now is josh who rode out the storm on abacos island, rode out dorian where it hit as a category 5, made it to nassau and has since gone back to visit abacos to get a sense on the situation on the ground there. now that youve gone and assessed the damage again, what did you see? >> it was really eye opening. after i rode out the storm i was just in survival mode for a few days, just kind of sleeping in my car, living on bread and peanut butter. and i got off the...

Strongest winds are usually on the north or the northeast quadrant of the storm. thats the part you want to avoid. thats usually where we have the maximum sustained winds are usually measured in this region. so if this northeast quadrant can stay offshore, that will usually mean weaker winds. these are pretty good thunderstorms on the back side. the other thing that it means, if we have a parallel the coast, we dont get that water piling up. we dont get the high storm surge. its much worse if yo...

The weather was calm enough to bring a helicopter in. the water had already winds shifted. it pushed the water back out. most had already taken place. i get into one part of the abaco. the mud. its one community there. its a lot of homes you cant tell there were homes there. its a bunch of building terms put in a big grinder and thrown around the ground. its gone. theres probably search and rescue i would think to be done in the area. as well as many others in the surge. >> its interesting as to...

New to us as well. take, for instance, category 5 hurricanes. there have been a bunch of them, with names like hugo and andrew and rita and katrina. when dorian reached category 5 status early on in its life, it was the fourth category 5 storm of donald trumps presidency. but the idea of a category 5 hurricane remains new to him seemingly every time. >> im not sure -- im not sure that ive ever even heard of a category 5. >> a category 5 is something that i dont know that ive ever even heard the ...

And rita and katrina. when dorian reached category 5 status early on in its life, it was the fourth category 5 storm of donald trumps presidency. but the idea of a category 5 hurricane remains new to him seemingly every time. >> im not sure -- im not sure that ive ever even heard of a category 5. >> a category 5 is something that i dont know that ive ever even heard the term. >> theyve never seen a category like this coming because it came in really at 5. >> it was a category 5. i never even kne...