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To little towns, shipley and bonifay, up near interstate 10, very much the same scene up there. again, lynn haven, north of the city of panama city, town after town after town along the coast, they need help and will for weeks and months to come. mike tobin is east of there in mexico beach, which really got the worst of it along with tindle air force base. how are things looking today, mike? >> reporter: you don't really see a lot of visible improvement. you see a debris pile, a massive debris berm that stretches the length of mexico beach. a massive pile of debris, they can take it away one b...

The big claw and those giant trucks. he will grant this debris one bite at a time. they load up the truck and drive them to a dumpsite about five miles away. dump it off and repeat the process. it's a big job. it's taking a long time but look at this debris berm in mexico beach is about 3.5 miles long. the debris berm stretches the entire length of mexico beach so it's just going to take a while. >>jon: how do they know there's nothing of value in that berm? is that just what the water pushed up? >>reporter: this berm is primarily the stuff that ended up in the road. they don't really know the...

Miles. so you have a 3 and a half mile debris berm they have to give it up or they can only do one bite at a time. it's a big job. it's part of why this will take such a long time. along the lines of recovery we saw another cell tower go income a temporary cell tower from t-mobile. this particular cell tower can handle 300 calls at any given time. it prioritizes texts over data and also prioritizes nonnormal calls as they come in. very useful piece of equipment. when they start talking about reestablishing loved ones, we know that there are some 2000 people disaster wide unaccounted for. about...