US Coast Guard members conducted search and rescue efforts in the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian's destruction. The agency plans to run air operations and deploy rescue ships when conditions allow.
Rescue crews in the Bahamas fanned out across a blasted landscape of smashed and flooded homes Wednesday, trying to reach drenched and stunned victims of Hurricane Dorian and take the full measure of the disaster. The official death toll stood at seven but was certain to rise.
"We are in the midst of one of the greatest national crises in our country's history," said Prime Minister Hubert Minnis. He said he expects the number of dead to rise. Rescuers used jet skis, boats and even a bulldozer to reach children and adults trapped by the swirling waters, while the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and disaster relief organizations tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety.
"The situation is under control in Abaco," he said."In Grand Bahama, today will tell the magnitude of the problem." "It's total devastation. It's decimated. Apocalyptic," said Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a hurricane relief group and flew over Abaco."It's not rebuilding something that was there; we have to start again."At 8 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Dorian was centered about 95 miles northeast of Daytona Beach, Florida, moving northwest at 8 mph . Hurricane-force winds extended up to 60 miles from its center.
With the threat to Florida easing and the danger shifting northward, Orlando's airport moved to reopen, along with Walt Disney World and Universal. To the north, the Navy ordered ships at its huge base in Norfolk, Virginia, to head out to sea for safety, and warplanes at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, were being moved inland to Ohio.
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