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So right now they are waiting for a damage assessment team to come take a look at the situation and let them know that it is okay, that it is safe to get back on board and continue looking for those four people. they did rescue another 20 people from this crew in the early morning hours sunday. a very difficult mission where some of them were hoisted up into a helicopter. others were lowered, some by fire hose onto boats. now, right now there is concern about how those four people are doing. a lot of people here gathered on the pier wondering that as well. right now it is a waiting game. could...

The bahamas unrecognizable, the first images from above abaco, showing paradise to paradise lost. >> absolute devastation, and it really is heartbreaking just from the air it looks completely levelled. >> debris fields for miles. houses surrounded by water, and boats littered across the island. >> nbc news correspondent morgan chesky with a look at the devastation from hurricane dorian in the bahamas where relief efforts are underway. >> by the way, richard, you were talking about the scale of this. the scale is so gigantic, unless the united states gets involved to alleviate human suffering. ...

Okay. >> reporter: and i don't know if you guys could hear, but all those high pitched beeps, beeping, beeping, you know, punctuated throughout all the debris fields, through all the rubble. what we realized what it was was people's smoke detectors going off. you think about a smoke detector as something that warns you of an emergency fore coming. it was as though the warnings perhaps hadn't been strong enough. i met with women named sherry who i caught on the beach. she rode out the storm in port saint joe. we happened to come upon her as she was coming home for the very first time to mexico ...

This mudslide is in this part of california, it goes from about 3,000 feet to sea level in a very, very small amount of distance. just several miles. we're probably about a mile and a quarter from the ocean. and so they're going to have to go through with these people missing all of these debris fields and see if there's any survivors still in there. then you articulated that another scenario called romero canyon where there are residents they told to shelter in place because there was such a big debris feed, they couldn't even get in there and they may have to bring them out by helicopter. th...

But this was a home right here that came from somewhere upstream. and this right here is the roof, it is turned upside down. this is a living room. we can see pieces of a couch. and what looks like a tv rights here. and there are people's belongings in here. and then this over here, that white thing that you're seeing, that is a trunk of a car. the car is standing up on its end. and the car has basically doubled over it. so right now search and rescue crews are going to debris fields like this looking for piles. and they are searching for people. just a little while ago, we saw a family that s...