Good evening.

As hundreds of thousands in the Carolinas and Virginia are without power tonight and

Hurricane Dorian creeps toward New England, according to a new forecast released moments

ago, the Bahamas has begun the desperate search for its own people, unsure of the death

toll now at 30.

And how far it will actually rise.

We want to pause here for a moment because likely you have seen pictures and heard accounts

some from government officials or eyewitness accounts of the horrors in the Bahamas.

As you have also likely heard, the accompanying worst case scenarios about the death toll

and how high it might rise.

And it might very well.

But right now, it hasn't.

And for now, that is obviously a good thing.

As we show you, the new pictures, our reporters have gathered and talked to people on the ground,

we want to and will proceed cautiously because families in the Bahamas, the United States

and around the world with loved ones on the island are reading every news clip and watching

every account for some sign of the people they have not heard from in days.

And many people have not been heard from.

It is a horrible reality in times like these when phone lines are down, roads are impassable,

and governments are overwhelmed.

So with that, our first report, seen as Patrick Opman, has spent the day in high rock on the

southern side of Gran Bahama Island, one of the hardest hid that before today, we had

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