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It is truly destruction and debris as far as you can see. what have you been seeing? now, we have also traveled to >> reporter: well, so much of another hard-hit area where the island we are still not able rescues are under way as we to access because where there speak. used to be streets there are hundreds of homes people rivers. other places are completely clinging to roofs, stuck in blocked off like the downtown of attics. let me show you anothe way to free port where the main look at this. hospital is which we hear is that is before and after of full of victims of the storm. grand bahama i...

Two stories, concrete, hurricane windows. we have a few friends sheltering with us, a few windows. my friend and colleague joe is here as well. we're waiting until 11:00 because that's when high tide is supposed to come. that's going to be a key moment. at this point we definitely have been some of the luckier people in grand bahama. we've had some pretty strong winds but haven't been dealing with things like sarah, who's a friend of ours. we've been seeing videos of people fleeing into attics, people going onto rooftops. jet skis being deployed to try to get people out. we're in a good spot b...

>> shannon: hurricane dorian unleashing massive rains and winds in the northern bahamas. sustained winds of over 140 miles per hour hampering any attempt at rescue efforts. authority is urging people to find flotation devices and grab hammers to break out to their attics and roofs if necessary. reports of death and catastrophic damage reporting from the island tonight. >> we are saddened. >> we are experiencing hurricane conditions like we've never experienced before. >> this is very deep water. my god expects >> we have seen catastrophic damage. we pray that we come out of it.

It has been downgraded now to a cat 3 storm, but it is still lashing the islands there with heavy winds and rain since it slowed to a near stand still over the islands. it is not going anywhere. the flooding is so bad, authorities are urging people to find flotation devices, grab their hammers to break out of their attics, if necessary. local officials saying they've received a tremendous number of calls from people in their flooded homes, trapped there. a radio station reported it received more than 2,000 distress messages. chaos in the bahamas right now. this is what we're trade of seeing in...

Or right offshore, either way. going to have a category two the world that will look like? storm, category one storm right >> bad. along the north carolina i mean, the bahamas are already coastline. this comes out from an area flat. low-lying. we're only like 50, 60 miles within noaa that gives flood from florida. prediction. moderate risk is across an i've been here 1 1/2 years. been to lots of the island. expensive area that we'll see really amazing people. the next few days. our communities have been around we'll be done with this by a long time. friday afternoon and saturday. but they're i...