Very few people have ever experienced what Hurricane Dorian is doing to the Bahamas right now and thank God for that. The lead starts right now.

Destruction everywhere. Just in, the first look at the damage in the Bahamas

as seen from above showing an almost total wasteland after a two-day thrashing from Hurricane

Dory and while on the, CNN is on the scene

as frenzied rescue efforts are underway

as crews and boats hold desperate families

from rooftops.

Plus, new today, a high school in Santa Cruz is mourning its missing

class means as Cruz give up the search after a boat goes up in flames off the

California coast. Today the serious questions about what more if anything could have been done to save the victims?

This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.

We're going to start with the breaking news.

Powerful Hurricane Dorian now headed towards the Florida coast,

leaving catastrophic conditions behind in the Bahamas.

We're getting our first look from the air at the devastation, miles and miles of damage.

Neighborhoods reduced to strewn pieces of debris almost appearing like trash littering the ground but what looks like match sticks those are pieces of

roofs and doors and what used to be homes we can only hope at this point that the families who lived there

escaped and made it out safely some of the debris of course surrounded by floodwaters

Hurricane Dory and the strongest hurricane to ever hit the Bahamas as far as we know.

At last, the islands for two straight days moving just 30 miles in 30 hours killing at least five people with that death toll

regrettably expected by experts to rise precipitously. The storm destroyed

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