CNN: Freeport, Bahamas Airport Suffers Breathtaking Damage from Hurricane Dorian

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OPPMANN: "We are on the runway at the Freeport airport. It has been inaccessible for days. There was a river between the rest of the city and this airport. It was completely under water. It looked like the waves were crashing — waves were crashing against this airport. Look how destroyed it is right now. Just about every side, 8 feet to 10 feet up has been leveled, ripped in, torn in. Look at it now. I don’t recognize it. There’s not a wall standing. You think about the need this island has right now for a functioning airport to get injured people out, to get supplies in, and this airport right now is completely destroyed. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. This is complete and utter devastation like I’ve never seen. Jose is going to point the camera over here. Look at that. This is a wheel. This is the underside of a plane. This is what's left of the wing. You think of the force required to throw a plane from the runway into a terminal. If anybody was here, I don’t know how they would have survived. I’ve seen a lot of damage on this island. This is the absolutely most devastated area I’ve seen so far. It will be impossible for anybody who was injured or just wants to get off the island to leave from here. Aid will not be able to come in. It’s just part of the airport, if it's airport at all, because it's just a debris field now. So if help is going to come, it’s going to have to come through some other way, boats, another airfield. But this is really the only — this is the only airfield for this island and it is in utter ruins."