department was excellent and got about 12 to 14 days that worked all through the night of the hurricane. we had to stop at 185-mile-an-hour to get residents back to the firestation. we ve been having a hell of a time. it was a miserable night. looking at severe damage everywhere you look. there s no way. there s no way. looks like bombs went off on this island. it looks so all of. i think it s fair to say, mayor, grand isle has been devastated. the devastation is enormous. i know you have no electricity. you have no water. the grocery stores are unable to open so food is scarce for those folks who may still thereby. wh what s the urgent need? what do you need first thing? we have a levy system 34 miles from here.
dangers remain. louisiana reeling tonight from hurricane ida s brutal impact. we ve just been through a horrendous night with winds, rain, gusts, water coming up, rivers rising, power outages. it s incredible. reporter: the category 4 storm brought pounding winds and devastating flooding that topped roofs in some places. they say it was 185-mile-an-hour winds, and i believe it. reporter: the storm so powerful it temporarily reversed the flow of the mississippi river. i don t want to mislead anyone. robust search and rescue is happening right now. and i fully expect that that death count will go up considerably throughout the day. reporter: local officials deployed boats to conduct water rescues for people caught in the quickly rising water. in about a three-hour period
devastation following dorian. 30 people are confirmed dead but health officials say that number will grow. hundreds are still missing. one of the hardest hit areas is the abaco islands where dorian made landfall as a category 5. the island scattered with debris from homes destroyed by the 185-mile-an-hour winds. i m trace gallagher. now back to hannity. sean: joe biden is caught again telling yet another big lie. this time about his position on the iraq war. telling npr, he came out against it right after the invasion, claiming. bush tricked him into supporting the war in the first place. he got tricked. take a look. i let my record stand. my record has been good. i think the vast majority of the northern policy community thinks it s been good. for example, i got a commitment from president bush he was not going to go to war in iraq, he
arthel: search and rescue crews are working frantically in the bahamas to reach communities trapped by massive flooding in the wake of hurricane dorian. 43 people now confirmed dead there and that number is expected to rise. thousands others are still listed as missing. steve harrigan is live from nass the bahamas with a firsthand look at the devastation. steve. reporter: arthel, the destruction on some of the northern islands is just near complete. as far as you can look to the left and the right, everything is just destroyed by the 185-mile-an-hour winds, the infrastructure also shattered as well. gasoline, medicine in short supply. there have been reports of looting and we spoke with a young woman who lives on abaco island who said she has taken part in looting. here s what she had to say. i stole.
the highest hill there that have some walls that are standing by the roofs are ripped off. those who decided to stay here, i m sad to report, are likely dead, buried under the rubble. we met a search and rescue team here that flew in from miami fire department. they came through. they are looking for the possibility now six days after this hurricane that there might be a survivor but they re also realistic that it s likely that they are going to come upon the dead, not the living at this point. it s hard, richard. i mean, there s a stench of death here, and it s it s difficult because you know that in this vast area that has been destroyed, there were people whose final moments of their lives were a sheer terror of the horror that comes with the chaos of 185-mile-an-hour winds and driving, driving water and storm