recovery effort than a rescue effort at this point. so we do expect that death toll will likely continue to tick up in the coming days. and to speak about the death toll and just the tremendous loss here, more than 20 people already have died in these floods, including many children. and we heard from the father of those two 7-month-old twins just a little while ago. i want to play a little bit of what he said. i had my children like this kind of grasping on to my 1-year-old. and when the water hit and the room filled up and that s when i lost them. i lost all of them. tales of just a harrowing event that happened here over the weekend, chris. and we know that in addition to the lives lost, many people are coming back to find that their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. we re talking about hundreds of businesses and homes.
now. give us a sense of the situation where you are. reporter: hey, michael. so we wanted to show you a bit of a different angle. we are in murano, famous for the glass that you often see in venetian tourist shops. you can see the water has already started to come up a bit. this flooded tuesday when the water hit its peak. this gentleman has a shop. he is expected to pump out the water as it starts to come up. remember, the flooding today, the tide will peak 160 centimeters above sea level, 20 centimeters beyond what they consider extraordinary flooding and not far off what they saw tuesday. john, i will get you to whip around the other way and show you how much they are experiencing already. we drove in this canal, this channel, and it is flooded all up and down the sidewalks here. one of the things that people in
i do this simply to inflict suffering on my panelists. sometimes i just feel like a dirty bird. dana: oh wow. greg: the only thing i can do with a dirty bird is get under the faucet and let the warm water hit my belly. look at that little guy. he knows how to get clean. he did something earlier in the day and can t seem to wash it off. who knows what he did? it s disgusting what he did. [laughter] animals are great. animals are great. and all right. dana that s you. dana: all right. a montana grandmother took the law into her own hands as well as a hair dryer. she couldn t take it anymore. she wants her grandkids in ever body else in the neighborhood to
degrees on the tarmac. but also really worried. here is why. my nephew mom died with a baby because she was trying to back in the house to buy the bottle por the baby. but when the water hit her he just gone with the baby. well, people have been sitting on those tarmacs for hours in the heat. we learned today from the u.s. air force general, terence oshaughnessy, that the air force will be helping to refurbish the airports damaged across the country and support air traffic control to speed up the evacuation process. we just learned from the coast guard that they evacuated an additional 34 people today for a total since the storm of 239 from abaco to nassau, erin. thank you very much, victor. and i want to go outfront now to joy, the director general of the
music concerts when the wall of water hit. there have been additional complications. the authorities are urging people to stay away from the beaches where they re supposed to be cleaning up debris and looking for potential survivors and people who did not fare so well. that makes the recovery effort even harder. they believe this tsunami was cause bid a volcanic eruption. the island in the middle of the sunda strait, which erupted saturday and the scientists in indonesia say it dumped more than 150 acres of mountainside into the ocean and that s what created this deadly natural disaster. an indonesian band named 17 playing saturday night. the lead singer gave this tearful message on instagram in the hours after the wave and said a lot of his band members were missing, and his wife. he has since announced that his