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Through the bottom, i've even seen some homes, 8 to 10-inch thick concrete reinforced with steel, just completely destroyed. looked like it was ground up by a big jack hammer. the structures that were once there are completely gone. the tourist center in abaco is just -- it's gone. it's nothing left. you drive down the street or walk down the street and it's just unrecognizable. i did not know it was a tourist center. i hadn't been there before. i didn't know that's where all the restaurant and bars and nightlife went on, all the docks. it's just groundup debris. that's all that left. >> tell ...

A whole neighborhood of people. many people tried to ride out the storm there because they've done it previously on different hurricanes, powerful hurricanes and they say this time the water came in late last night and not everyone was able to get out of the neighborhood. there were some people who went to the roofs, but there are no rescue efforts we can see right now and that's still throughout much of this island tropical or hurricane force winds. it's just too dangerous to fly right now. i talked to one official last night who said they realize how desperate the situation is here, they're ...

>> it's very taxing. the pilots are texperts at what they do. they train in alaska, and though they're working in 75 knot winds, well over 85 miles an hour to get the helos in, and they can't get too close to the storms. we have a large ship, a national security cutter coming from the north and two medium endurance cutters coming from the south to join a royal fleet auxiliary as we look to stage a response from the sea as well. once the seas calm down enough that we can approach the islands. >> and admiral, i understand you have a bit of news about the services you will be providing to the pri...

Message, too, because one of the reasons people don't like to leave their houses is they're concerned about the possibility of crime while they're gone. people need to feel safe and i know daytona beach is still one of the areas that could get the closest to the hurricane force winds. are people paying attention? we've got about 20 seconds left, sheriff. >> they are. the mayor of daytona beach last night went door-to-door into flood prone areas imploring residents to leave and hope thael they get the message. >> the sheriff of vulucia county, we can tell you still have your hurricane game face...

Rescue and relief operations. thank you very much for being with us this morning and help getting the message out. >> thank you for having us. >> so alisyn, again, the winds picking up here again might mean another one of the bands will pass over soon and the sun rising over the bahamas. patrick ottoman hopes to get out this afternoon to see the damage there. >> john, it looks very bad where you are but nothing compare today the bahamas so that should put all this into perspective. with dorian bearing down president trump wept on a tweet storm this weekend providing americans with erroneous ...