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Former naval air station at roosevelt roads and international airport on southern coast. every one of those airports is within 25 to 30 miles you draw from them can cover the entire country 100 miles along and 35,000 miles wide so you can put helicopters there, uss kearsarge and her group are down there and army helicopters that have been brought in. marine corps. helicopters off kearsarge and her ships so staging things both from a shore and offshore to get these supplies out there. if you look at the population, it's 3.5 million people but the vast majority eric, live along the coastline. th...

Of their bark by maria. piled high onto the road until they become the road. you don't walk to point michel, you climb and clamber. these are what's left of the rain forests, giants that stood centuries, thrown like matchsticks across the shoreline. the rain forests now just a memory. once at point michel we hear the stories of those who survived like miranda john. >> when i came back and i saw inside there, i just break down. everything, gone. the sea was right inside there. >> reporter: as we venture further into the community, we find salma francis, who insisted her mother leave her home ne...

Village after village, town after town, mudslides we saw. the other thing about this place, it was a place of utter beauty. they had rain forests. they were starting an eco tour i am. you can't see them anymore, anderson. they're gone. every tree is knocked down or stripped of foliage. the economy here is ago culture based. everything gone. now, that speaks to an economic impact that's going to last for years. the prime minister actually heading to the u.n.ga tomorrow, and he's going to be making a plain active cry for international assistance for this country, not only do they have immediate ...

So we're now getting our first look of what little is left of the island of dominica. fourteen people are dead after hurricane maria slammed into the island. >> reporter: hurricane maria hit dominica full category 5 strength and showed no mercy, plowing through villages towns and the capital rosa. not a tree untouched. thousands slept in two. no greenery left. there were spectacular rain forests here. no more. this is as close as we or anyone can get to dominica, at least for now. the airport shut downment they are hoping to open in the hours ahead to see how bad things are. we can see from up...

Running water. we have a bird's eye look of the destruction maria brought to the nation. >> reporter: hurricane maria brought dominica at full category strength and showed no mercy. plowing through villages and towns not a tree untouched across the islands. no greenery left. there was spectacular rain forests here mp no more. there is as close as we or anyone else can get to dominica. we can see from up here this island has been hit and hit hard. we pass low bufted by the remnants of maria, our pilots unable to land on the ground before safety checks deemed safe. where there is a town or villa...