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Water i have on my bottom floor. >> how deep do you think that water is in the video. >> i think by 6 feet. >> my thing is i think these people could be rushed in before. these people are on this street are in dire straits. >> have you been able to contact emergency officials? obviously -- >> my family has, you know, but the story is when it's -- when it all calms down. >> sure. >> but, you know, we've been through the worst of it. we're on the back end of it now. i would love to see these people in these first floor houses rescued tonight. these people are in trouble. >> let me ask you, thoma...

Street, which i will show you in just a second, and she actually told us that, look, she didn't bother going downstairs when the sirens went off, because why would she? it's safe. nothing has really happened here since the war started. so, she was content just to sit in her office. this here is her office but she was on the fourth floor of this building all of the windows, maybe nine or 10 stories high, every single window of this building completely, completely blown out what likely saved her is the fact that there is a concrete wall there. the bottom floor of this building, which, obviously,...

An elevator in a Bronx building plunged four stories to the bottom floor, killing one construction supervisor and leaving another worker critically injured, officials and witnesses said. The elevator inside the Bruckner Blvd. building near Lincoln Ave. in Mott Haven plummeted around 8:15 a.m. from the top floor of the four-story building to the first floor, FDNY officials said. A construction ...

You say the bahamian land is no longer, it's gone, and you can't recognize these neighborhoods as you're trying to get through them now. what are you -- now that you're able to venture out, what are you hearing from folks? what are you seeing there? >> we're still hearing persons in distress, persons who haven't heard from their family, particularly on the eastern portion of the island. we are trying to get large equipment to go across the grand bahama highway. we attempted to rescue residents of east grand bahama last night, but we could not go any further than the university of the bahamas. ...

Jeff paul is near the damage. he's surveying what is left. jeff? >> reporter: yeah, gillian, hard to put into words, this region was already hard hit by flooding, and now it has been devastated by an apparent very powerful tornado. as i step out of the way here, you can see what it did, likely did to this -- this was a motel right here. you can see there's a sign that was up there, some cars that have been damaged, wood all over the place, twisted metal. as we push in a little further, this is the most powerful image we've seen out here so far. that is the second floor of a motel. and official...