Half of the homes in the Bahamas were destroyed or severely damaged, racking up a total of $7billion in insured and uninsured property losses, according to a Thursday estimate from the catastrophe modelers Karen Clark & Co. The Bahamian government sent hundreds of police and marines into the stricken islands, along with doctors, nurses and other health care workers. The US Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and relief organizations including the UN and the Red Cross joined the burgeoning effort to rush food and medicine to survivors and lift the most desperate people to safety by helicopter. UN chief Lowcock said he told Prime Minister Hubert Minnis that he was releasing $1 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund immediately to deal with these priorities as well as for medical supplies and services for Grand Bahama. 😱😱😱

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! The Glendale Police Department announced in a Wednesday release that Officer Joshua Carroll resigned from the department on August 31 after it was recommended that he be fired. Shocking bodycam footage from a June 13 arrest shows Carroll proceeding to detain a man - later identified as David Dulaney - who had been sitting in his vehicle at an apartment complex on the 1000 block of North 44th Drive. 👮🏻‍♂️

BREAKING NEWS! 'People are shooting each other for food and water': Bahamas Hurricane Dorian death toll will be 'staggering' with THOUSANDS still missing as bodies pile up and militias are formed to stop looting. Up to 70,000 are in need of 'life-saving assistance' while the island of Great Abaco is said to be virtually uninhabitable, with bodies piled up. While the official death toll stands at 30, that number is expected to rise today and hundreds of body bags have been ordered. A massive international relief effort was ramped up today as survivors revealed horrifying details of the aftermath of the 185mph, Category-5 storm. One of them, Alicia Cooke, broke down in tears as she revealed: 'Everything is gone, people are starting to panic. Pillaging, looting, trying to shoot people for food and water. It's just no way everyone's going to get out.' 'No homes. No banks. No gas stations. No hardware stores. Everything is gone,' she added. 😱😱😱