reached into the 40s now. certainly from the images we've seen, the stories we're absorbing, expectations it will go higher seem almost inevitable at this point. >> reporter: as cal and i have noticed -- by the way, we've seen several bodies that have been pulled and placed on trucks. that hasn't increased the death count. we're in an isolated place where there does not seem to be a whole lot of presence of authority. there seem to be aid agencies working here and ngos. i think the process of finding bodies, identifying them, registering them and increasing the death toll is probably not a particularly efficient one. i would hasten to say, we have no way of knowing what a count looks like. but it's not in the 40s. again, within an hour of landing, we had -- >> at least six bodies loaded onto trucks. >> yeah. there's a lot here. we're not in a stage where things have been cleared. wherever you look on this island -- i'm just going to ask our photographer to pan to the left there so you can see. it all looks like this. it's not like we selected this