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he was meant to board a flight to the united states with that device under his clothes. authorities leave alaseery was behind the plot and mind the so-called underwear bombing attempt in 2009. >> the plot itself indicates that these terrorists keep trying, they keep trying to device more terrible ways to kill innocent people. and its a reminder as to why we have to remain vigilant. >> something that is disturbing, this is a homeless man, yelling, pleading for help as hes kicked, punche...

>> live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and welcome to this special edition of "today" on this saturday morning, im amy robach. >> im cafilling in for lester holt. hurricane irene is basically the size of europe. >> take a look, there is the pier at atlantic beach in north carolina. as you can see there, part of it has already been washed away, ripped apart by the pounding waves from irene. now the eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at atlantic beach somewhere be...

>> live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and welcome to this special edition of "today" on this saturday morning, im amy robach. >> im cafilling in for lester holt. hurricane irene is basically the size of europe. >> take a look, there is the pier at atlantic beach in north carolina. as you can see there, part of it has already been washed away, ripped apart by the pounding waves from irene. now the eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at atlantic beach somewhere be...

august. what is happening today is extraordinary by any standards. hurricane irene is bearing down on the entire east coast from north carolina to maine with incredible 65 million people in its path. rain and high winds have already begun to hit the carolinas where the storm is expected to make landfall sometime early tomorrow morning. commuter transit systems in new york, new jersey, and philadelphia are being shut down. but the enormous new york city subway system is coming to a halt...

the new york city area is expected to get hit sunday morning, and today mayor michael bloomberg ordered some 270,000 people to evacuate from low-lying areas. thats roughly the equivalents of evacuating buffalo, new york. president obama cut short his vacation and urged people in path of the storm to be prepared. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. dont wait. dont delay. we all hope for the best, bu...

North carolina. >> and it is just devastation and its so dramatic to see it. the home behind me, its remarkable to think that anybody would have survived inside that, because the tornado came right over the house here. they have calculated this early on as an ef-3, which means the winds were 165 miles per hour. here is the most amazing thing. some folks saw that tornado coming and they rushed into this home examiand all 11 inside mad out alive. unfortunately a short distance away, another person...

Fatalities. >> this store manager saved his workers and customers, insisting everyone move to the offices in the back of the store. more heavily fortified than the front. >> at that point, all i could think about was getting everybody to safety. >> when we hit the safe area and got down on the floor, we had about five seconds when the winds blew through the building. >> today, north carolina governor beth perdue is tour something of the storm-ravaged parts of her state. >> there are search and r...

money for a giants fan who was injured. patti lee has the story. >> reporter: officers and firefighters got together to raise money. whether they won -- or lost tonight. >> its a charity game. lets go have some fun. keep it clean. >> reporter: didnt matter to this team. hockey players but also paramedics and emts who work with bryan stow at american response. >> these group of players have never played together before. they are all here to show their support for bryan today. >> reporte...

injured. patti lee has the story. >> reporter: officers and firefighters got together to raise money. whether they won -- or lost tonight. >> its a charity game. lets go have some fun. keep it clean. >> reporter: didnt matter to this team. hockey players but also paramedics and emts who work with bryan stow at american response. >> these group of players have never played together before. they are all here to show their support for bryan today. >> reporter: todays match up was the brai...