unreal. >> reporter: tonight, reports that as many as 13,000 homes are damaged or destroyed. and a grandmother now grieving over the loss of her grandson. >> did they say how he died? t now phone from the bahamas. and marcus, i know you and the team were hunkered down during this hurricane. is but as we so often see, when the hurricane is right over you and you have the eye over you, there's often a brief moment when you can go outside, a brief break before the second half of that hurricane comes in. you went outside and you could actually hear screams? >> reporter: yeah, david. we heard those screams and looked off in the distance and saw four people at a house that was surrounded by the storm surge, the water rushing by and our producer, scott schulman, ran towards them and told them to swim. and they got in that water. it was three women, two teenage girls and a woman and a man,