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Hurricanes, 49% from storm surge. thats almost half. you think of hurricanes, you think of winds. we get focused on numbers. rain 27% and thats why were most concerned about the water. ali, it really is storm surge comes in so fast and so strong. >> so lets talk about the other thing you mentioned earlier and thats tornadoes. this actually becomes a serious issue particularly because a lot of worst of this hurricane is during the overnight hours. >> i love you said that. the lights are out. we m...

Damage on the ground? >> yeah, good morning, isa. from the banks of the peace weather, we are in pubnta gorda. they are watching that storm closely. water turbulent still this a.m. but not quite amount of water they expected, which is good news. this is only six pete feet above sea level. they expected this area to be the worst of the damage. >> give us a sense, ben, if you can, of what you have seen on the ground, in terms of the damage. >> isa, we have seen the entire city without power tonigh...

Area that was telling me that it already feels worse than charlie and longer duration than when charlie came through about 12, 13 years ago. thats only those initial bands. gusts up to 80 in the orlando area. could see something similar to that. if youve ever been to the downtown orlando area or anywhere around this, theres a lot of old, big trees. and there will be a lot of significant problems with trees on houses and with power. if you havent lost power yet, get prepared and you havent been t...

Terror attack against our country. overnight an explosion levelled one home while shaking others. blocks away. neighbors in dallas rescuing a 76-year-old grandmother through a window of her collapsed house. >> she was saying im in here, im in here. so that window were went over there and look with flash lights and she was in there. we were telling her to get out because it might explode again. >> thank goodness they got her out. the womans grandson was also home. he was able to get out on his ...

Since they are on the witness list. they are not allowed to hear other testimony, so theyre on site, but theyre not actually able to watch any of the prosecution of their son for second-degree murder, and a very emotional morning as the prosecution was delivering its opening statement. the parents of trayvon martin, tracy martin and sabrina fulton, multiple times wiping tears away as john guy gave a blunt, direct and attention-grabbing version of that night. >> [bleep] punks, these [bleep], they...

They put bottled water in there, they put their flash lights, their emergency weather rateows, and then once the family is safely inside, when they get the warnings, they close it, just like this, and they put a pin in it. all right? and then people hunker down in that thing when the tornado rushes over. i talked to a guy who rode the storm out in one of these. he said you could feel the cold air of the tornado and they could feel the ground around them, around the shelter, rumbling when that to...

>> steve: we sound frustrate we are. there are reports here in new york city people dont have food they are dumpster dive looters and people using blackberries and iphones as flash lights and people are stealing them from them it is extraordinary situation . >> gretchen: a lot like hurricane katrina. they saw all of the dead bodies afterwards. >> steve: if this was a republican president do you think that the main stream media would handle it differently? the presidents photop in new jersey is n...

Several different mountain slopes and right up there at the top of that peak where you see two peaks come together at the would tomorrow of the peaks is what we call a saddle. it was in between a saddle that a trail led up where agent ivy lost his life. >> nationwide, 26 border patrol agents have lost their lives since 2012. since 2002. ivy is the first to die from friendly fire. >> this was 1:00 in the morning when the incident occurred so there is a good chance of misidentification. >> there i...

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...

He asked jesus, and who is my neighbor? and jesus tells him the story of the good samaritan. from that parable our charge is crystal clear. good samaritans do not ask. they show their compassion with action. in joplin, you see good samaritans everywhere you turn. you see them over at the gym where hundreds of volunteers make sandwiches each and every single day. they pass out blankets and flashlights. to a neighborhood needs flash lights, especially when youre