Rescue crews are airlifting hundreds of evacuees in rural Alaska after the remnants of a typhoon brought hurricane force winds and record-breaking storm surge to the state's remote western coast over the weekend.

The floodwater swept homes out to sea and submerged some coastal villages. At least one person is dead and two remain missing.

More than 1,000 people

have been displaced as winter rapidly approaches and authorities scramble to assess the damage.

For more, we're joined now by Sage Smiley. She's the news director of KYUK in Bethel, Alaska,

a town that has become a hub for the recovery effort in recent days.

Sage, thanks for being with this.

And we reached you at home there in Bethel, which as we said is the central aid hub.

What's the situation there?

And how is the recovery effort progressing?

Yeah.

So it's been really dynamic.

As the state officials say, things are really changing by the minute,

but there have been helicopters in and out, sea class military planes, in and out bringing people

and supplies between here and Bethel and the coast and between Bethel and Anchorage.

And so there's a lot of activity.

I think everyone's just working really hard to try and make sure that people are safe in their

housing because that's not the case in the villages that have been most affected by this typhoon.

Well, how widespread is the damage? And did residents there expect it to be this devastating?

So I think that that's part of the issue. The storm track of this typhoon remnant, the ex-typhoon

halong, was very sharp. It turned very quickly. And I think that that didn't give a lot of

time for people to prepare. But instead of hitting north of here, the Norton Sound area, it hit

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