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>> john: chaos on a college campus in virginia where activists ambushed a students for life meeting reportedly throwing punches. it got violent and aggressive quickly. pro life students say somehow despite the threats against them, they are the ones who got shut down. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour, im john roberts in washington. sandra, its friday. feels like a monday. >> sandra: so much news to get to. sandra smith in new york. the latest example of a cert...

Few inches in some and the north end of the island theyre saying water is a little higher because of the fact that the ground is a little lower. but nothing significant at this point at least. they are still patrolling to report here. there are two confirmed deaths from this hurricane and not to negate what is happening on the big bend with all the surge and that beautiful area of the state of florida, fishing villages. a lot of big pine trees and live oaks. many of them have been torn down. pow...

Bryan llenas is live in western rhode island. cleanup efforts are now underway. whats the latest? >> sandra, good afternoon. tropical storm henri brought flooding and also 16 more miles per hour winds. that is a bad combination with these big pine trees. you can see crews clearing the way. that downed power line over there. clearing trees throughout the northeast. more than 33,000 customers here in rhode island are now without power at this hour. tropical storm henri made landfall. it was downgr...

Of the south. as the storm gets past you and the eye goes by you, everything switches to the north, the west, east. everything was always way around you. >> whats it like while youre there and whats going through your mind? >> i had three big pine trees in the front and i thought god, dont come over. they would take my power lines down and everything, which would complicate matters just really bad. >> reporter: look back on it for me. are you glad you stayed? what do you think? >> its an experie...

Orleans and affecting the florida west coast. the storm turns into a 145 storm before landfall. this is 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. thats when the eyewall will likely be making landfall. thats the worst part of the storm. but thats not the ieye. it has nothing to do with the eye. it could still get to apalachicola, but probably not any farther left. i think pensacola, youre completely in the clear for eyewall. that doesnt mean youre in the clear for wind. it will still be 75 or 80 miles per hour t...

Big pine trees down around the coastal areas of georgia. especially going through the night and around the hilton head area, a ton of downed trees. now that we have daylight, starting to get a lot of pictures. the most wind damage. not concerned with major wind damage. right now a six-foot storm surge in charleston and at low tide, thankfully. closer to high tide last night the water all through coastal areas. when we get pictures, afraid of a lot of damp around the beaches with houses. onshore,...

We were very lucky. alisyn: so once the storm passed, what did you see in your neighborhood? >> well, after everything passed, we saw -- all the big pine trees, were the ones hardest hit, about the width of a small car. one of them had fallen down and crushed a full sized pickup from my neighbor, the debris was everywhere, a car had flipped over a block away from our home. it was -- it looked like a disaster area. the choppers were up in the sky afterwards and all you could hear were the sirens ...

Wife. we fell down to the floor. we didnt have enough time to get in a room or nothing. it occurred in my mind that im going to die, but thank god, nothing happened. alisyn: on the phone with us now is justin kuroe, he, too, had to protect his young child. good morning, justin. >> good morning. alisyn: it was about 3:00 this this weekend, you had just put your ten month old daughter down for a nap and what happened? >> well, we thought it was just going to be normal storm, and we looked out the ...

Piles behind me where the highway department has been here with chainsaws doing some cutting and clearing. let me tell you what happened here last night. over the dinner hour, the sky just turned deeply black. it was still daylight time, which you wouldnt know it. hail started falling, blanketed the ground and then this storm came in. they think it was perhaps an f-1 tornado touched down here. the woman who lives over here, shes a senior citizen. you can see she has a storm shelter out front and...