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Top. residents say they havent experienced problems in past storms so they decided to stay in their home even though it was under a mandatory evacuation. those rescues went through without any serious injuries. good news there. through out the region there are reports of downed power lines downed trees and about 700 thousand people without electricity. because the storm has been moving slowly taking a while for the winds to die down. power crews go back and restore electricity. back to you ainsl...

>> good deal. >> thank you so much. >> you have to be a savvy shopper. >> it is 25 after the top of the hour. coming up, who is the person in this photo who swayed president obama to approve the raid to go after osama bin laden? and is spending more than 700 thousand of your tax dollars to create one job really a reason to celebrate? first on this day in history in 1987 dirty dancing opened in theaters. remember that? nobody puts baby in a corner. its something youre born with. and inspires the ...

New york police departments stop and frisk program. they last year engaged in more than 700 thousand stops and frisks. and overwhelmingly the young african-american and latino population, its a different in society and its about time they come together that we deal with police, violence and surveillance. >> we are seeing a real political backlash that is gaining and growing momentum to the stop and frisk policy. i think it is really getting stronger and stronger. well see you at the march on sun...

Gas prices should be lower because we are at record drilling. no matter who is responsible we have record drilling going on in this country. president obama has pu in place even though he has little control over gas prices. he has put in place higher fuel efficiency standard. thats a concrete policy. why is that important? because if your car is more fuel efficient you are paying less money. thats an important issue. to say the production levels are high because of obama they are high because ...

that hit at 5:00 in the morning. thats rare for that to happen. thats not saying storms wont continue, because they will, and youll see rumbles of thunder and there may be a tornado, but theyre not going to have the f-4 or f-5, the 200-mile-per-hour tornadoes. theyre not going to happen at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. as you see it, the storms are moving to the northeast. theyll move to the carolinas and go down pp hill, as they do into north carolina, south carolina, theyll lose some of...

>> i dont think he needs to be pressing the democrats to make a compromise. in some ways he already agreed to a compromise making cuts in the first place as oppose to do more stimulus. this is a time when we have almost 9 percent unemployment. long-term joblessness. the cuts in the original house budget would cost 700 thousand jobs. in many ways what we need is more spend to go create jobs and less focus on immediate cutting in spending. >> good luck with more spending to create jobs. >> robert ...

Catastrophic budget cuts, that republicans refuse to stop on tuesday, president obama will head to that navy yard, navy shipyard. after republicans have their hypocrisy. the gop for this disaster in the making, and cuts that will start next friday will hurt our recovery and cost up to 700 thousand jobs. >> it has become clear that the cuts would have an adverse impact on families, on teachers, and parents who rely on head start programs. on our military readiness. on mental health services. on m...

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Conditions saving dozens of people on their roofs this after water pushed over the levy. the president saying the flooding there is worse than what he saw during hurricane katrina. >> had to break through the ceiling and come through the attic. took us out of the attic into the boat. it is very bad down there. very bad. >> right now at least 700 thousand people in four states without electricity this morning downed power lines and scattered tree limbs are lining the streets. jonathan serre is li...