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Its going to take a long time. im actually from puerto rico. they have a long process ahead of them. from what i have seen, they are very resilient people. it is something they will get around to. >> you know, look, given the fact that you have experienced a major storm coming through puerto rico and the recovery effort after that, you know what its like to go through this, as you say. so when you speak to people there, what is the mood right now? because the images that were seeing, you know, h...

Continues through monday afternoon. a big wind storm. well talk about a potential for coastal flooding as the surge comes in. and rainfall, although thankfully this thing is going to be moving, no the going to be stalling anywhere near japan. this will be also gone here in the next 24 to 48 hours. it will be harrowing day and a half for our friends in tokyo. . >> wow. we will just have to keep an eye on that. lets talk about what was happening in seattle. this was a rare phenomenon to say the le...

Find. this after dorian left the islands in total ruin. the storm killed 43 people there. but that number is expected to rise. some on the island who lost everything are now scramble to go try to escape. just take a look at that image. the united states says it has evacuated more than 1,400 people to the state of florida so far. one of the evacuees spoke with cnn about what theyre dealing with. >> the roof caved in. the wall caved in. it was flooded. it was awful. but im here. i made it. >> one ...

Longer recognizes his backyard, the island where he has lived all his life. hurricane dorian stalled out over the eastern end of grand bahama island, ravaging everything and everyone in its path. dorian punched holes in concrete, tore foundations from their houses, and flung his humvee through a wall. worse than the storm, he told us, is the lack of government response. over a week now after the storm first hit the bahamas. smitty, like many people, is running out of patience. >> grand bahama ri...

This is over 20 feet high. and it stayed this high for 50 hours. he said it was 50 hours of pure torture. little aid has reached this area. in many places, the only road in is blocked or under water. as they wait for government assistance, some residents, like marilyn ling, in the town of high rock, have taken it upon themselves to organize a relief effort, distributing supplies donated by friends and family. staying busy, she tells us, keeps her from reliving the horror of the storm. >> i have ...

Clothes you organized for me. thank you. we even saw a little sun a moment ago. it is kind of hard to believe that 65 miles northeast of here is cape hatteras where this storm has made landfall. it is, as you said, punishing winds over there. overnight six hours ago there were heavy winds here. they didnt do any structural damage. they took trees down and some power lines. back in the bahamas obviously this was a wind storm. back before that in puerto rico it wasnt. up the east coast of the unit...

Island. thank you so much. i want to bring in lisa on the phone. she rode out hurricane dorian in free port. lisa, thanks for joining us. you lived in the bahamas for more than a decade. youve been through hurricanes before. tell us how dorian compares to other experiences with hurricanes. >> hi, there. it was the worst experience ive ever had, and ive been through a cat five, weve been through so many hurricanes and this one, there is no words to describe it. this was the scariest experience ev...

From the typical homeowners or business coverage, we cover us for the property damage that occurs as a result of, say, a wind storm or a hurricane. when floods come in that is the flood policy, when it is damage from wind or rain, that is the typical homeowners or condominium policy. >> aishah: im from the midwest and we have tornadoes and one of the biggest problems after are scams, people come, show up knocking on the door offering to fix this or that and buffer know, homeowners are handing ov...

Moving in an erratic fashion, if it looks like its going here and then it decides its not going to go there, instead its going to move in a different direction or in the case of dorian, just completely stalls out. >> right. >> people are trying to figure out whats going to happen, and after a while when youre trying to convince people along the coast you need to evacuate, you need to do this, you need to do that, they just start to get fatigue. >> yeah. theyre fatigued by it. there are some peop...

To those who maybe wanted to evacuate and didnt have any place to go. we will be seeing as they await this weather more and more preparations in place. as for now, it is a very, very quiet city while they await this storm. >> katie beck in savannah, georgia. lets turn now to retired u.s. army lieutenant in baton rouge, louisiana. he, ochk, led the relief effort on the ground in new orleans after hurricane katrina. lets talk about the bahamas for a moment, because while we are all breathing a sig...