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we see any clear skies here. anderson. >> thats it for us on "360". more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this countrys population under threat of this storm. were talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. thats the cone of uncertainty they call it. b...

More of these. people walking through the rubble of their homes, trying to pluck out anything to salvage. i want to bring back in jessica willingham, shes with the red cross. jessica, you and i have been talking on the air the past several hours now. how has your perspective of this devastation changed in the few short hours from what youve been able to collect? >> well, weve -- while we continue, the red cross, continues to provide shelter and food and clothing and basic need for folks, and tha...

Lives back together. literally people have been picking up small items, boxes, dishes, and things like that trying to salvage what they can in some of this. the need is going to be great. jessica willingham is with the red cross in the st. louis area, shes on the line with me once again. jessica, we were trying to get a handle, its still early, but trying to get a handle on just how great the need is going to be. what is it? >> well, the needs so far have been the red cross is here to make sure ...

Urgently and stop this hand-wringing about how difficult everything is. lets start with humanitarian assistance. united states is good at delivering medical supplies and food and other emergency needs. >> sean: doesnt that free up more money for radical elements? we are freezing assets, billions from qadhafi. >> im talking about sending it to liberated city of benghazi. >> sean: doesnt it free-up money for radicals, if the people are getting support they can buy weaponry? >> basically you have t...

Urgently and stop this hand-wringing about how difficult everything is. lets start with humanitarian assistance. united states is good at delivering medical supplies and food and other emergency needs. >> sean: doesnt that free up more money for radical elements? we are freezing assets, billions from qadhafi. >> im talking about sending it to liberated city of benghazi. >> sean: doesnt it free-up money for radicals, if the people are getting support they can buy weaponry? >> basically you have t...

They only -- the president clinton and the commission that he is co-chairing with haitis prime minister they dont have the money to distribute that they would like and that will will be his focus the next couple of weeks. >> back up a little bit, how can you say there is no funding for cleanup, step one, all that money raised, telethons are were done to raise a lot of money, everyone was watching it around the globe. where its money? >> right. well, hundreds of millions have been spent on, you k...

The funding, as you know, soledad, $5.3 billion pledged by countries around the world. guess how much has been delivered? about 2 to 5% of that money has been delivered. they only -- the president clinton and the commission that he is co-chairing with haitis prime minister they dont have the money to disrush tribute th they would like and that will will be his focus the next couple of weeks. >> back up a little bit, how can you say there is no funding for cleanup, step one, all that money raised...

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