Bahamian hospitals overwhelmed as Rubio tours by air; some islanders return by cruise ship

GRAND BAHAMA, Bahamas — With the death toll rising to 30 across the islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, relief efforts continued Friday as a Florida cruise ship arrived with tons of supplies and authorities worked feverishly to find bodies, reach obliterated neighborhoods and treat victims of Hurricane Dorian.

The situation on the ground remained dire.

In the Abacos, hundreds of injured people were waiting to be airlifted. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, in a tweet Friday, urged the federal government to get “resources approved immediately” to help Abaco.

“Abaco is impossible to supply right now rendering it increasingly uninhabitable for the approximately 2000 people on the ground,” Rubio wrote in a series of tweets Friday as he toured the disaster zone via U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.

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