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Just lost everything. it's become a humanitarian crisis very quickly. a lot of supplies are dwindling down the island. resources are very limited at the moment. tensions are quite high. >> brandon, do you have a sense of the human losses on the ground there? because from the air, it just looks -- how difficult it must have been to survive, not just the conditions from the storm as the hurricane sat on top of the bahamas, but the aftermath as well. do you have any sense? >> yeah. the storm surge, particularly the mud area of abaco, it's going to be high. i know it's going to be high. multiple p...

Substantially. >> i know you were on with our colleague don lemon a few nights ago and talking about where you were going to try to reach to see the extent of the damage. is there anywhere else that you were able to go? you talked about grand bahama. >> i was going to try to get to freeport, grand bahama. the problem is from nassau, if you go to freeport, you're pushing your fuel limits a little too far. the only way to -- at that time, the storm was in the way. you have to kind of pick one or the other. >> sure. >> no. we wasn't back to abaco yesterday and there's limited places for landing a...

From an infrastructure perspective, our people -- were people able to prepare their houses, to board up? how do you evacuate? leaving e been that effective. >> well, i'm sure there's been cases of boarding up, of course, in abaco island for example. there's a significant area that we normally refer to as the mud area whose infrastructure there. i don't know the extent of the damage. but it's saying even if you were batted at, even if you took the necessary steps, be the stories of people who want above chl sea level. who would have gone into this type of fracture. that degree of wind and water...

This is what the area looks like now. the death toll continues to rise. 20 people confirmed dead with 30 missing. as we report, residents there want answers. >> reporter: under tight security, the man in charge of the company that owns the run away train finally confronted an angry community now at the center of one of the worst rail disasters in recent history. >> i understand the anger and beyond that, i will do what we can to address the issues here. we can't roll back time. >> reporter: five days ago, a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded wiping out the town. >> if i liv...

>> it looked like a big bolt of lightning. it came out and went like that. i saw the whole roof pull up. >> thankfully no storm related injuries were reported. pittsburgh looks more like a lake this morning than a city. flash floods swamped several of the main roads there. three inches of rain fell in the area on wednesday. pittsburgh public safety is warning drivers to avoid certain parts of the city because of the high water. >> wow. major clean up in indiana after damage from a series of powerful storms. the storms caused significant property damage in central indiana. thousands of resi...