it's been just over a month since hurricane dorian ravages the bahamas. the first responders and volunteers there the entire time. including big dog ranch rescue, from loxahatchee groves, florida, who just made a miraculous discovery. >> oh, my god. let's get you this. hi, baby. >> reporter: using a drone with infrared technology to pick up heat signals, they find a dog. trapped for weeks. separated from his family. and look at the dog when they find him. >> oh, my god, baby. look at that tail wagging. >> reporter: feeding him. talking to him. >> we got you. i know. >> reporter: clearing debris. >> come on, baby. >> reporter: the a.c. unit he was pinned under. hungry, but okay. that rescue group bringing him to florida, to their clinic, to nurse him back. >> how he has survived is a miracle. total miracle. >> reporter: in fact, they've name him miracle. and as they try to find his family, more than 10,000 other families saying they would adopt him. >> hi david, it's lauree simons from big dog ranch rescue. >> reporter: tonight, they tell us, he's eating a

on the day dorian hit, there ore than 200 patients here, 28 of them bedridden. t sharon williams had a plan. each staffer was assigned and l of patients, charged with getting them out, quickly obd safely. >>y panicked. no matter the fear they werebo feeling, eve was contained and calm so the process was orderly. >> reporter: were you scared? >> yes, i can tell you there was a bit of fear. if you don't have some fear to ma, you second guess someti then you make stupid mistakes >> reporter: and you didn't lose a patient? a i didn't lose a patient and we did not lose a staff during that time. >> reporter: right now, they are providing ca here thanks to help from u.s. aid and relief organizations like samaritan's medical corps.international its volunteer doctors and nurses are taking patients in tents at the site of a destroyed clinic 30 miles away in high rock. here the acute phase of open wounds and broken bones has evolved into the chronic concerns of interrupted prescription medications, andon mental health. this woman collapsed after discovering some clothing t

. >> woodruff: it's been five and a half weeks since hurricane dorian devastated the bahamas. the complexities of the storm and the recovery are in some eaways just beginning to r themselves. science coespondent miles brien went to the bahamas for the weather mapping app, "myradar.com." he reports on the resiliency of e bahamian people and wh research tells us about the links between climate chansi and the incr ferocity of huicanes. it's the latest in our science series "leading edge." l reporter: at the rand memorial hospita freeport, the damage is not instantly obvious, and yet it is utterly complete. the prognosis for the 59 year old facility is uncertain, little more than a month after hurricane dorian arrived. four to six feet of water. health services administrator sharon williams has worked here for nearly 40 yes. she walked me through the one story facility. wards, the intensive care unit, and threcently upgraded operating suite, all ruined by the salt water flood. does it break your heart to see all of these? >> very much so. it is heartbreaking. it is very much heart

when hurricane dorian was raging toward the u.s., he showed a doctored map that predicted the storm would definitely hit alabama, and earlier this month, he tweeted a map of the u.s. that said try to impeach this. now his allies are using maps to explain the situation in syria to him, and they're trying to get him to understand some logic. joining us now nbc news correspondent carol lee. carol is out with new reporting this morning alongside courtney kube on how lindsey graham and retired general and fox news analyst jack keane showed the president maps of syria, turkey, and iraq to try to explain why removing troops from syria would be detrimental to u.s. interests. carol, tell us more. >> sure, well, el w what we sawe last few days is the president really focus in on these oil fields and talk about this em publicly saying you know, maybe we need to keep some troops there to protect the oil fields. we need to secure the oil fields, and it really raised this question of, you know, first of all confusion. what is the policy? what is the mission here? are troops staying or going? if so, wha

you're going to go back and see where things stand in the wake of hurricane dorian so we look forward to your reporting with that. dr. dave campbell, thank you. and you can read dr. dave's piece on the humanitarian crisis in syria on our website, joe.msnbc.com. and coming up, more from yesterday's extraordinary news conference in which president trump announced the leader of isis, al-baghdadi is dead. this morning, military and congressional leaders say there is still work to be done in the war on terror. trump's former special envoy for the coalition to counter the islamic state, brett mcgurk, joins us. "morning joe" is back in a moment. joins us "morning joe" is back in a moment (logo whooshes) (logo chiming) ♪ - [woman] with shark's duoclean, i don't just clean, i deep clean carpets and floors. so i got this. yep, this too. even long hair and pet hair are no problem. but the one thing i won't have to clean is this. because the shark self-cleaning brush roll removes the hair wrap while i clean. - [narrator] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. now available in ou