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Of water, houses shaking as the hurricane and storm surge came threw in ocracoke. there is a real concern for hundreds of people trapped and needing help on that island. the coast guard and local law enforcement have been air lifting people out, prioritizing the sick and the elderly. dorian hit the outer banks including ocracoke island as a category 1 storm. it hit the bahamas as a category 5. in the bahamas the death toll keeps going up. while we've been on the air tonight the death toll jumped from 30 up to 43. officials expect it to go up even more and soon as responders make their way thro...

Stop vaping. still packing powerful sustained winds up to 85 miles an hour and moving along the u.s. east coast. it should be felt today in massachusetts and maine. this is where dorian made land fall in the u.s. in the north carolina outer banks. everything under water. a combination of about 15 inches of rain and storm surge. much of this region remains without power this morning. one town over, streets and homes are completely submerged. many are dispatched to help. and in the bahamas, ground zero of dorian. new video of people trying to

Right now? >> reporter: i asked the very question when i had to chance to miss marsh harbor yesterday, on the island that took the brunt of dorian. we landed a few hours after the airport opened. time and time again when i asked people there what do you need the most, the answer was almost always the same -- everything. they need everything they can get right now after the storm levelled the neighborhood after neighborhood. and leahas left so many people stranded. clean drinking water in short supply. a woman nursing a young boy, an infant said she hadn't had a real meal since before dorian hi...

Expect that number to rise. joining me now from the bahamas, nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, how are things there? >> chris, it's tough to put into words. we had a chance to witness some of that devastation firsthand today. the airport at marsh harbour, which is on abaco island, which took the brunt of dorian when it made its way through the northern bahamas, finally opened the airport today, and we were able to land there. and the first thing you see upon walking off are dozens and dozens of people gathered outside with simply nowhere else to go, trying to find a way off the isl...

Was their first outside contact since dorian hit. >> that's where i was. >> reporter: jim bell remarkably survived, trapped under the debris of a collapsed home while the storm raged and the water rose around him. did you think you would be here after this? >> no, i thought i was going to die. it felt like hell. >> that was kerry sanders who continues to report for us. meantime, in nassau, bahamas, msnbc mariana, you have been talking to families over the last 24 hours or so. what are they telling you about what they went through and what they need? >> reporter: an older woman in a wheelchair ...