50% of the homes damaged or destroyed as a result of that storm surge combined with incredibly intense rains as dorian stalled over that part of the island. chris? >> morgan chesky in the bahamas, thank you for that reporting. i want to turn to former fema administrator craig fugate. craig, the situation in the bahamas looks extremely dire, particularly in abaco. what do you see as the most important priorities right now, and do you think the government there has the capacity to make sure that real genuine humanitarian disaster doesn't set in now? >> well, the bahamian national management is coordinating a lot of things. first priority is going to be search and rescue, recovery of those that we lost and still reaching those areas and start getting supplies in there. and i think this thing we got to remember. this is the bahamian led response. the united states has already set the u.s. agency for international development office of foreign disaster assistance a disaster response team to work