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>> reporter: you to wish they were moving quicker? >> yes, i wish they move quicker. >> reporter: and tell me what you need here. what are the priorities? >> a lot of people have lost most of their clothes, water, need food and you know, basic stuff right now. >> patrick ottman, thank you for telling all of these stories. you have just done phenomenal work this past week. we are hearing more from those who battle dorian as they fought for their lives. let me show you a picture in the is adrian farrington and his 5-year-old son aj. they threaded water for an hour as the storm raged trying to ke...

Left of the airport to just get supplies. the prime minister says an estimated 60% of those homes there have been destroyed and cnn's patrick ottman has been in the bahamas throughout the storm and has the very latest. patrick, just these stories that you've been telling, what more are you hearing today? >> reporter: hey, brook, so many more things. we just had a coast guard helicopter literally behind us. and they've hovered for maybe five minutes, very, very low. lower than i thought they really could have because they were in that forest behind us, what used to be a forest. and some of the ...

Patrick ottman, cnn, grand bahama island. >> such an incredible amount of devastation, it is hard to comprehend. if you would like to help the victims of the storm, head to our special impact your world website. there, you'll find a list of aid organizations working to help those devastated. the address cnn.com/impact. the center of hurricane dorian is brushing the north carolina coast at this moment. the storm has already produced several tornadoes in the area like this waterspout in emerald isle, north carolina. they are common in thunderstorm bands of hurricanes and call -- give little, if ...

Man-0-war. it essentially sat over the islands and churned for two days, hitting that island chain with a great deal of power and rain. some areas in the bahamas have been cut off since that storm passed through. high rock and on grand bahama isle, for instance, no one could get there to see the level of destruction until now. our patrick ottman shows us what's left behind in this exclusive report. >> we're only about an hour from freeport, but it took us much longer to get here, driving around debris like this, you can see in every direction for miles all the power lines are down. hurricane d...

Rationing food. you lost power, cell phone service for a while. >> yes. >> no where to go. >> i have the i had to stand on the beach to find a tower to get service. where we are we are blocked off on every side. the roads are flooded we can't get past without a high level vehicle. we can't get food or water our rations are getting low. we're trying to signal any nema helicopters are flying. >> our colleague, patrick ottman who has been reporting on freeport throughout the storm said that he doesn' have a sense at all that anyone is in charge there. there is chaos and it doesn't seem like anyon...