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Conditions. of course, because of hurricane dorian. there are efforts under way to move evacuees but hundreds need to get to safety and much-needed supplies, water, food, medicine, are being brought in but bahamian officials say the situation has developed into a humanitarian kris. crisis. 43 people is number killed and they expect the number to rise. paula newton is reporting from marsh harbour. reporter: this is the area of marsh harbour and it took the bankrupt of hurricane dorian. you can only imagine the terror of people who are living here. they don t have an estimate as to how many people were here or how many people managed to get out alive. but look at this. family belongings strewn everywhere. it is impossible to make out even where the homes were and ....
To recover more. thousands of people who lost everything are trying to escape, scrambling to do whatever they can. paula newton is in one hard-hit area, abaco islands there, which is doing its best to recover. reporter: this is an area of marsh harbour that we have spoken about many times. that s because, as you can see, it took the brunt of hurricane dori dorian. you can only imagine the terror of people who were living here. they don t have an estimate as to how many people were here or how many people managed to get out alive. but look at this. family belongings strewn everywhere. it is impossible to make out where the homes were and where they stood. the issue is that they do not know if victims are still buried somewhere under all of this debris. we spoke with morticians who have been hired by the bahamian deposit to come here. also a k-9 team from the ....
Can you stay there or not at all? no, it s our walls are ripped out. my mom s bedroom and windows are ripped out and there is an ac window penetrated through the wall and it was thrown into and our neighbors next door is just gone. we haven t been able to look in the rumble through our stuff and we tried to take family pictures what did you take? what do you take when you think you got to get out? my hat. family pictures. family pictures, family belongings, possessions. make sure to grab all of the military documents, just and anything that you can t live without. just the important things. i kept looking i just wanted to make sure my mom was okay because she was in her bathroom and we were in ours and we had to get out and her room was a wreck. is she okay? your mom? yeah, she s okay. she made it. she made it. just shaken up. last question, where do you go ....
Quick fix and lots of red tape. this is one building that we are working on. jamie: so all of this just to get one of your properties in order to . yes. we needed cash right away. at least to start the demolition. the longer it sat, the worse it got. after the storm cash with king around here because people would not work for anything but cash. so we started slowly working our way through the family belongings. and liquidating what we can. jamie: as brick was rummaging through the house looking for anything that could be sold, he stumbled across the old stash of comic books. the one that goes all the way back to his grandfather gustav. one of the things that my grandfather left for my father in me was the comic books. we had them up in the attic. jamie: how many are we talking ....
Up had heere. what we re doing is we re going to do a shot inside momentarily, we re going to line people up. we re getting their information. the green tag will get them back in. we re starting a re-entry plan to get folks back in. we have an eight-day curfew today, we ll re-evaluate and let them when to come back in tomorrow. we re letting them get pack in so they can start go through and dig through. no residents have been back in. now they look for family belongings, personal belongings, that kind of stuff. we ll try to go from there. when you re inside today what we hope for is you register with the red cross and other volunteer organizations so we start to get funding and start to get assistance trickles down, you ll be on their list. we were there together doing the media tour with governor rick perry as he toured the devastation, the community of rancho brasos was obliterated. how long of a wait should people expect if they come here? the line is starting to speed ....