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The way you react to it is youre meticulous, very slow and precise as you go house to house, block to block. everybody would like to see ramadi taken in the space of two or three days. that operational patience the iraqi military is doing two things. one, keeping their casualties at a minimum and keeping the casualties of the civilians at a minimum as well. >> lets talk about civilians because i know u.s. forces dropped pamphlets telling people to leave the city when theyre planning some sort of...

From block to block which makes it very difficult for police to address it. theres a good number of officers out there. but right now theres sort of running from pocket to pocket, trying to put out the fire, and its a very difficult situation. >> can i ask him a question, please? >> sure. we have alveda king here, commissioner. >> commissioner, if im hearing what you saying and we look back at figureson, the business owners and sometimesriders will fire bomb your business. what is the safest thi...

Were in the plaza towers school. and seniors from moores three high schools graduated. there was one ceremony this morning and there will be two later on today. renee marsh is joining us live from moore. this is a day of a lot of mixed emotions. help prioritize it for us today from the perspective of the people there in moore. >> reporter: thats right, fred. you mentioned it. one graduation already wrapped up. in two hours from now, well see a second graduation here. roughly 2,000 high school gr...

City in the dark. 12 states are now under flood warnings and watches this mofrom oklahoma all the way tochigan. residents are already coping s leaving hdrs of people stranded in chicago, in a suburban chicago neighborhood. ten children had to be rescued when their school bus got stuck in rising waters. they were ferried to dry land in rafts. >> watertown near boston one suspect linked to the boston marathon bombings dead and another right now being hunted for, considering extremely dangerous. ...

City downed powerlines leaving much of that city in the dark. 12 states now under flood warnings and watches this morning from oklahoma all the way to michigan. residents are already coping with widespread flooding and its leaving hundreds of people stranded in chicago, in a suburban chicago neighborhood. ten children had to be rescued when their school bus got stuck in rising waters. there you see them. they were ferried to dry land on rafts. >> of course, our top story, which we will continu...

Upset about terrorism. theyre not going to die of terrorists. theyre going to die of something else. and resiliency is a great defense to terrorism. you know, resiliency meaning we can handle -- >> the israelis have taught us that. >> and the british after the attack back in 2005. boy, they went right back to work the next day. they didnt let the terrorists bother them one bit. so we got to be careful. weve got to react. weve got to do sensible things. the same time, we have to put this in persp...

>> can you characterize how much of the town was effected? one gentleman told me how a lot of the town is just gone. >> i dont know. i can tell you that from when i drove through there, there was devastation that changed from house to house, block to block. it is a -- i dont want to call it constricted neighborhood, but there are homes close together, businesses close together. the main hub of downtown is a major thoroughfare. lots of businesses in and around the area. the city of west has exper...

In the texas town of west where a fertilizer plant blew up with a force so powerful it leveled businesses and homes in every direction. rescuers are searching ruins for survivors going building to building in the disseminated neighborhood hoping to find people still alive. major dan ford incident commander with the waco salvation army. major ford, thank you so much for being here with us. what you can tell us about the latest? it is 10 of 3:00 eastern time. earlier this morning we were told it w...

>> do you characterize how much of the town was affected? one gentleman told me a lot of the town is just gone. >> i dont know. i can tell you that from when i drove through there, there was devastation that changed from house-to-house, block-to-block. it is a -- i dont want to call it a constricted neighborhood. there were homes close together. businesses close together. the main hub of downtown is a major thoroughfare. lots of businesses in and around the area. they -- the city of west has exp...

They were pulling people out of these houses like this one and a lot of these people are elderly. for the people that weve spoken to who managed to get out in time, they say that they had half-an-hour between the time of the earthquake hit to when that wall of water just roared straight through here. so for the elderly who were on ground level, standing where we are standing, they would have gotten just swept up, carried away. >> it is about a kilometer to where the sea actually begins so it rol...