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irene. >> north texas is burning. im ali velshi, about 30 homes already destroyed bay wildfire. 100 more in harms way. its going to get worse before it gets better because officials say this fast-spreading fire is 0% contained. and im carol costello. new developments out of aruba in the disappearance of american robyn gardener. her traveling companion and the chief suspect may be about to walk on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, august 31st. welcome...

all day heavy rains from tropical storm irene overwhelmed creeks and rivers across new england. quaint main streets became muddy torrens. this is a little village north of new york city in the catskills. just look at the force of this water at woodstock, vermont. those are propane tanks picked up and carried away. nothing can escape the current once it falls in. not even cars. trapped in the raging waters this sedan was batted around like driftwood. fortunately no one was in the vehicl...

tropical storm irene overwhelmed creeks and rivers across new england. quaint main streets became muddy torrents. this is a little village north of new york city in the catskills. just look at the force of this water at woodstock, vermont. those are propane tanks picked up and carried away. nothing can escape the current once it falls in. not even cars. trapped in the raging waters this sedan was batted around like driftwood. fortunately no one was in the vehicle. >> whoa! get out of h...

canada, millions in americas southeast corner are thankful it wasnt much worse. >> and hurricane irene first made landfall yesterday and northern new england, where the brunt of the storm just left theyll remember irene for the rain. 16 inches or more in some spots. with tidal surges battering beaches, inundating roads and bridges and in cases whole communitiesants more than 4 million are without electricity today. from florida to connecticut 19 deaths blamed on irene. among them an 11...

>> over that entire thousand feet, yes. >> reporter: that sounds like a lot to me. >> its the standard that was determined. >> well, now migratory birds are nesting on the still contaminated island and others in the gulf. a year ago, oil was thick on the surface in the local marshes. today, in many of those same marshes, its still thick, but now its on the bottom. some beaches are suffering from chronic re-oiling, oil that washes back onto the shore. and many gulf businesses are still feeling it...

And we really didnt know how bad it was. basically had shots of a fire in the water in the gulf and we had no idea how bad it would turn out. >> the impression was that was the bad part, an explosion, 11 people were missing, and it didnt occur to us for months and months we would be dealing with this oil spill. >> and now a year later were getting an idea of the scope. hundreds of thousands of lives, miles of coastline changed forever. april 20th that will mark one year since the oil spill. this...

>> jim, thanks very much for that. jim acosta in washington. if congress cant compromise on a budget deal by friday, funding for the federal government gets cut off and that hasnt happened in 15 years. we have some experience about what it would look like. last time they did it the feds closed 368 national parks and all of our national monuments and museums. passport applications backed up. if you need to renew your passport you should do it now. cleanup work at 609 toxic waste sites stopped. ...

Boom that was taken -- >> the same boom that the coast guard wrote a letter that were taken to safety for the tropical storm. now today, when we pull it over, the sheriff pulls it over, they say its default boom. >> reporter: boom that you were never told was going to be removed? >> no. >> reporter: which is part of the deal. >> sheriffs office had to pull them over. i dont know how many left before we caught 12 trucks. >> reporter: the fishermen, part of the vessels of opportunity program, if t...

Show up at my office and say get ready. were going to put you on. whoever is handling that for bp has failed miserably. >> reporter: thad allen says if we have less cleanup work, the contractors and fishermen, they cant keep them all on. what should they do? >> thad allen is going to bp school on how to deny. he is in denial. come down to plaquemines. well show you the oil. they were removing five barges today. standing them down. our guys were there unloading 1,250 gallons of oil and saying whe...

Photos were looking at, this is boom that was taken -- >> the same boom that the coast guard wrote a letter that were taken to safety for the tropical storm. now today, when we pull it over, the sheriff pulls it over, they say its default boom. >> reporter: boom that you were never told was going to be removed? >> no. >> reporter: which is part of the deal. >> sheriffs office had to pull them over. i dont know how many left before we caught 12 trucks. >> reporter: the fishermen, part of the vess...