ocracoke island swallowed friday by flash flooding. dorian storm surge forcing waters to rise seven feet in two hours. washing away cars. hundreds stranded in need of rescue. the coast guard bringing medical help and supplies. the punishing winds in nags head strong enough to blow off the roof of this beach front building. it s bad. it s a pretty big piece of something to be flying around in the air. reporter: and south of the outer banks recovery and progress after a reported 20 tornadoes tore through homes turning communities inside out. power crews with their work cut-out, trying to restore what they can. the wind and rain of dorian has moved out. but the impact of the storm still being felt. now, jo, this is actually a closer look at that roof we
destruction. how is everybody doing recovering and weathering this storm? reporter: well today, jo, the skies are clear. the rain and wind has moved out and what is left behind is the damage and clean up efforts that will start today. it took ten days for dorian to get here but just a couple of hours for her to do all of this. the road to recovery. just beginning for coastal north carolina. hurricane dorian making a devastating last landfall stop on the way out to sea. the storm now heading north, making waves along the mid-atlantic on its way to coastal new england. the hurricane has left behind destruction. reporter: an event people orable even to outer banks locals like casey who ride out hurricanes every year. the back end was pretty tough. the wind and stuff was pretty impressive. reporter: the powerful storm leaving thousands without power this morning. many already starting to clean up the mess left behind.
issues that matter a whole lot more than this internal thing? well, it s a great question, jo. kevin, empathize on not being able to be on everything. we were eager to hear what the president said on alabama or sharpygate. he didn t take any questions. he started tweeting about an hour or two about the fake new press. you re seeing two narratives. access to medical facilities. another narrative from the trump campaign of what they can do with a pretty rocky political news cycle. last week john bolton was with
reporter: victims from across the country and all over the world, including families together for a holiday weekend in scuba diving. stand by me reporter: their memories honored while so many unanswered questions remain. this morning divers will be going back into the water to assist in the recovery efforts. their plan is to use a crane to bring that boat to the surface, tow it into a harbor so they can do a proper investigation. the results of a preliminary investigation could be out as early as the next ten days, but a full report will take about a year to complete. jo, back to you. thank you so much. new questions about military members and their sleep overs at a trump resort this morning. some house members are saying it s blatant conflict of interest. we ll talk to the person who broke the story next. than any other company out there. they give us excellent customer service, every time. our 18 year old was in an accident.
are still unaccounted for. i m going to show you some of the conditions that they re working in right now. if you look off, it s a pretty sunny day, but cull syou can se fog is blanketing the effort. the fog was making the efforts a little bit earlier this morning a little difficult. you can seal off in the distance, there are some boats still coming in from the channel islands. we know that this boat was on a diving expedition. it was on a three-day diving expedition, where people basically paid to go diving throughout the day. and then at night, they re brought back on to the boat. they have dinner there and then they go to sleep. again, all of this happening at about 3:15 this morning. those 34 passengers still unaccounted for, jo ling. gadi, is there any indication that it was weather here or a technical problem on the boat, any indications? i know it s really early. reporter: yeah, there