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Yep. everything you worked for is gone. like my life -- >> it is very overwhelming to see what's going on. a lot of damage was done. right now the town doesn't have power or water so that's a big concern for us. >> and this same thing here right now in rolling fork. there is no power. there's no water. there's no utilities, this town of under 2,000 people wipe out mostly. there are some structures that are standing brick structures, others that are collapsed and it is just the sounds of pickup when the sun comes up underneath these stars right now, and you can see the stars because it is so da...

1:00 this morning our time and called off everything at that time to try and make as in acespedesments -- assessments as we could and do a lot of search and rescue and waiting financial on the sunlight to come up and give us better light to get out there and get back at it and try to find if there's any other signs of life in the rubble out there in the morning. pete: jose, the structures, i know it's a wide swath of area but is this an area that expects a lot of tornadoes and therefore the homes are prepared or what kind of wreckage are we looking at here? >> well, to say this is mississippi ...

Georgia. president briefed earlier today by fema. we have team coverage in the bah ma whats and up and down the east coast of the united states and we have the white house reaction, as well. all our correspondents standing by. bill, what's the latest? >> good afternoon. we'll start with the bahamas because that's where the horrific, catastrophic, record-breaking, whatever you want to call it, that's where it never looks the same. there will be brick structures to remain. cement structures will be there when the storm is over with. but a lot of the other stuff like the trees, any of the wood st...

Walking through the islands. i mean, and being over the top of you maybe in your house, your home, in the eyewall for 12, 14 hours, then maybe you you through the eye and it improves. and it's incredible that this storm this strong so close to the florida coastline and just raking through the northern bahamas. let's talk about the areas. marsh harbor, we don't know what it will look the same. i'm sure the cement and the brick structures will be there but anything made of wood is doubtable. we probably won't know until wednesday or thursday because here's how slow it is. this goes through tomor...

There are buildings that are collapsed. there are people who are trapped in rockport, texas, and they can't seem to get help. what do you know about what's going on there? >> reporter: well, we just arrived here, and actually saw some of the damage and then had to come out to the outskirts of town, because the communication barriers, it's just -- it's just too large. the cell phone towers are down, and it's just really difficult to make any sort of phone call out here. but we did have one cameraman who was in there and says city blocks are decimated. brick structures collapsed, and just a scen...