Bahamas update

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Aerial footage shows Abaco Islands in the Bahamas completely destroyed. Roofs have been ripped off of houses, cars are upended and debris is floating in floodwaters. Host Marco Werman checks in with Eddie Whan, chairman of the Bahamas Air and Sea Rescue Association in Grand Bahama, another island hit by Hurricane Dorian.

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