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Still from the storm. tin roofs caught in trees. this town as we flew in to the place, we saw many, many houses that had been damaged if not completely destroyed. aid workers are warning about a shortage in food for the local population. this is a farming area. a lot of people's crops and food supplies have been destroyed as well as their homes. tens of thousands of people made homeless. this will help. you can see another helicopter leaving after making its supply run. this is just a drop in the bucket for tens of thousands of people who need help after hundreds were killed by the deadly stor...

El chapo is still on the loose but new video shows the final moments before he disappeared into a tunnel. the video also shows the tunnel itself which was extremely well constructed. mark potter got a first has not look. >> reporter: the authorities say chapo used this tunnel that extends about a mile that way to a house in a farming area that's where we got to enter the tunnel, the opening of the tunnel last night. and we were quite impressed by the construction. it is very clear this was done by professionals who knew what they were doing. who had the money to do and it the time to do it rig...

You're doing extraordinary work. an all out manhunt is under way in mexico for one of the world's most notorious and dangerous drurg lords. joaquin guzman, el chapo, the head of the drug cartel escaped a maximum security prison skat not far from mexico city. it wasn't his first jail break. nbc's mark potter is in mexico just outside the prison with the latest. mark, you just returned from the scene where el chapo escaped. what did you see? quite an elaborate plot to get him out of this jail. >> yeah. that's true. and this is the prison where he escaped. this is a maximum security prison. he ...

Perhaps wash your car. about that is all. in addition to that we also know that this is a huge farming area. people depend on water to feed their livestock. they can't do that, either. so they're waiting directions on exactly what they can do with that. i should tell you that as i came into town on the 400-mile drive from washington, i saw a lot of trucks, everything from small pickup trucks carrying bottled water to large tanker trucks with poetable water heading in this direction so in addition to the national guard being called out, individuals are helping out en masse. when it ends we don'...

>> that's a very fluid situation for the opportunity. this happened around 12:30 this afternoon. a gentleman entered the bank. he's a u.s. citizen from this area. he was born in california. he's 20 years old. family moved over here. the only convenience store. this is a rule area. the parish is 5,000 people. the town is about 1500, farming area. they own a convenience store here. he entered the bank, took three hostages, they work at the bank. we are negotiating with him, talking with him. we've been on the phone. we talked to the hostages there. nothing is more important than the hostages. it...