♪ >> Now in other news, a some employees of a Hopkinsville based agriculture company are home after spending a week near Asheville, North Carolina, a city almost destroyed by Hurricane Lane.

They were there to provide a lifeline for stranded survivors and they did it with the help of drone technology.

>> People kind of have certain images in their head when it comes to hear the term drones and they don't really realize the vast uses that they have.

The train in North Carolina.

It's so mountain as it's hilly.

It's a lot of trees.

It's a lot of follow its dense canopies on that hill.

>> It is going to make it extremely difficult for a ground by search and rescue the drones, especially those that have thermal imaging capabilities.

We're a natural fit for search and rescue operations.

>> And they pretty much just sent us out and say go as far as you can in your Take off our our thermal drones are a smaller drones and see if you can find people that are stranded.

Looking for help with just any signs of typically wife that we could find to be able to.

Mark those positions are right down where they were at.

So we can work on getting our other people can work on getting ground crews to them.

So there was always kind of a high level of you never know what's coming around the next corner per se.

that never stopped.

A lot of them were just cut.

A lot of areas were completely cut off where >> rivers and creeks and they just completely washed out and you couldn't get him started finding these people said, OK, now, how do we KET these people alive or get them what they need if it was showing that, hey, we need food, we need water will, then we would shift from.

>> Located in its people to now we need to get the heavy lift Jones out and get them to plot.

>> We flew approximately 2 tons.

Of supplies.

So, you know, when we're talking about 88 pounds at a time or 60 pounds at a time, it's it's a lot of air left going on.

We have a PA speaker on I drone that we can relay messages to the ground.

People on the ground.

>> So we'd fly over.

Take a pre-recorded message.

Select the one that's right for the situation broadcast that they know exactly what's getting ready to happen.

>> You know, it's different from here in Kentucky where we have hills, but we don't necessarily have mountains the way that they do because we're Western Kentucky, especially where it's relatively flat.

You just don't see things the way that they are incurred in your camp in North Carolina, you would have everything just swept down the side of the mountain when you took all of all in of what you heard.

>> Individual stories that don't make the moose.

>> About holding on to somebody as long as they could before they were swept away or they lost everything in a mudslide because there is no motor insurance.

If this was everyone's life and a lot of older people lived in these beautiful places.

An and hadn't gone in minutes.

It was a.

>> Thank experience to go up there and try to help everybody out.

these these this equipment really proved itself to be, you know.

Helpful or I guess you could say, like changing your life, saving even.

>> On the way home.

>> The music stops.

The noises, stop.

And you just reflect.

And let me know that.

The my talents were.

To the best of my ability to get where I need to go.

If God calls me to do this again.

I won't.

I will even.

Begin to question going again.