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Debris, climbing over tree trunks that now formed what was the road and we knew we had to get there. we just set off and we walked and we walked and we filmed and we filmed. and all along the way we're thinking, never seen anything like this before. this is just incredible. and as we're going into point michelle, people are coming out. they're worried about getting food, starting to run out of food. they're all walking their way back to the capital roso to try to get supplies. one of the striking things is that it had these beautiful lush rain forests, promotional videos you can look at that s...

Industry that they were trying to build up around those rain forests, gone. the drive between domenica's capital roso and the coastal village of point michelle usually takes more than ten minutes. after hurricane maria getting between the two is going back on an odyssey of hurricane carnage. it was a difficult walk, because we're climbing over all this debris, climbing over tree trunks that now formed what was the road and we knew we had to get there. we just set off and we walked and we walked and we filmed and we filmed. and all along the way we're thinking, never seen anything like this bef...

Can get to dominica, at least for now. the airport is shut down. it was interesting because our pilot who flew us around the island, he flies the islands for living, this is what he does, and even he was shocked. the next day the runways were cleared to be safe, but there were assessment teams going in and the like and it was hard to get permission to land. but the prime minister himself wanted us, wanted cnn to come in and see what happened to his island. so he and his aviational authority said you're clear to come in, please, come in. not only do they have immediate needs, their entire indus...

>> so much devastation there. in northwestern puerto rico, thousands are being evacuated because a dam there could collapse at any moment. >> cnn has reporters throughout the caribbean. michael holmes is in dominique ya for us with this exclusive report. >> this drive usually takes no more than ten minutes reach after hurricane maria, getting between the two is to embark on a voyage of carnage. more people died in this community than any other. more than a dozen confirmed dead, many others missing. the foot traffic is constant. mostly out of point michelle.

Along the road, the trees begin, stripped even of their bark by maria piled high on to the road until they become the road. you don't walk to point michelle. you climb and clamor. these are what's left of the rainforests, giants that stood perhaps for centuries thrown like match sticks across the shore line, the rainforest now just a memory. we hear the stories of those who survived like miranda john. >> when i came back and i saw inside of there, everything gone. the sea was right inside there. >> as we venture further into the community, we find selma francis who insisted her mother leave he...