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Year. also noaa released pictures of dorian's eyewall that showed the clouds curving outward. that's a phenomenon known as a stadium effect. let's bring in ivan cabrera. >> you saw the sun there with that picture. the hurricane hunters there, you can see bright blue skies, sunshine, and then beneath them, of course, the washing machine that is the claatlantic ocean, caribbean sea at this point. what they're going through right now, we don't know because it hasn't happened before. let's show you the pictures. the way we measure these hurricanes is by pressure. but if we're just going to go by w...

And ripped the roofs off buildings in the abaco islands. years, for most part as strong flooding is also a major concern as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. with the storm surge up to 23 so it's a big problem. feet or 7 meters. it's a mental problem. it's a big problem. the northwest bahamas could see as much as eight months' worth of rain in just a few days. >> and then take a look at this. >> thnatasha lindstaedt is a you get a sense of how big and vast this thing is from the professor of government at the international space station. it's the strongest...

At a resort and they had to come of rain in just a few days. here to the shelter. >> this is now my house. waiting to ride out the storm. the water is up to my calf. for some of them, this is their first time experiencing a there is the kitchen. hurricane, so i'm spending time stove. trying to help them along. >> and this from the so at the end of the day they don't get too terrified. international space station. >> i'm sure. because you've been through this it has captured these pictures before, as you say. of dorian, the strongest storm, you know what to expect, but as we said, anywhere on t...

Could see off in the distance how large the waves wiere. it was something to see. >> the stadium effect is something i can't imagine being in. we get a sense of it from the picture. it was 185 mile-an-hour winds when you were flying through. what was that like? >> yes. it was rather remarkable. we entered the storm when it was a category 4. as we continued to fly, we saw the pressure continue to drop inside the center. and the winds continued to pick up. and the final report when we left, right as it was ready to make landfall there in the bahamas, the winds were 185 miles per hour. which is a...

First off. glad to be here. yeah, dorian is a very powerful category 4 storm. like mentioned, it's sort of the same for us every time we go out and fly. every storm has its own unique personality so you never really know what to expect. but dorian, she's very powerful and she's been holding this very tight eye wall and a really well confined stadium effect the last couple of days. so the crews that are flying in and out of dorian now, daily now, the squadron is on its 13th mission right now. we started in curacao, pulled back to homestead and now everything is flown out of the keesler air forc...