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>> reporter: the fires are being fanned by ferocious winds and some of the highest temperatures the state has ever witnessed. four large regions are being placed at a highest state of alert, catastrophic. it means the fires are uncontrollable and fast moving. at ground level, we saw for ourselves how terrifying the fire fronts can be. this is one of the states main roads, the princes highway. too dangerous for the emergency services to travel. just off it, the country homes and properties most a...

Bryant. >> reporter: the fires are being fanned by ferocious winds and some of the highest temperatures the state has ever witnessed. four large regions are being placed at a highest state of alert, catastrophic. it means the fires are uncontrollable and fast moving. at ground level, we saw for ourselves how terrifying the fire fronts can be. this is one of the states main roads, the princes highway. too dangerous for the emergency services to travel. just off it, the country homes and propertie...

They sit just behind the tape separating them from the fireworks launch site, 250 feet away. hundreds more get a view from farther away. >> about 10:00 the fireworks started going off. it was beautiful. >> my girlfriend and i were just laying down in the grass looking up. >> from the bleachers, spectators record the show with their video cameras and phones. about 20 minutes into the show, the finale begins. >> this is the finale. this is the song they always play on the 4th of july. >> but no on...

Shoppers. rick leventhal has more from brooklyn. >> nearly a month after hurricane sandy slammed new york, some flooded businesses remain closed. but toys are us didnt want to miss out on one of the busiest shopping day of the year. built a tent in its parking lot and opened just in time. >> its easy. here it was empty. its empty. i didnt even know it was open. im on my way to home depot and i saw that the sign said now open so i ran in. >> they didnt have what you were looking for. >> they didn...

And toys, but its not all fun and games. many stores on the east coast are still recovering from superstorm sandy, and those that have managed to reopen their doors, they are opening to recoup some of their losses today. rick leventhals live for us from brooklyn, new york, with the latest on that. hi, rick. >> reporter: hey, heather. toys r us is one of those businesses shuttered because of the storm and damages, so they built a tent in their parking lot, and can theyve actually now got a line f...

Hours that i felt based on my sources this was a terrorist attack. everybody else who was a professional from that moment on recognized what it was. but somehow between, again, that field level, the guys, the boots on the ground level and that air that exists over at the pennsylvania -- at the white house, got changed. the question is where? apparently there is only a handful of people who could have done this. let me be very clear. it wasnt james clapper, he testified yesterday. he said he didn...

Hours that i felt based on my sources this was a terrorist attack. everybody else who was a professional from that moment on recognized what it was. but somehow between, again, that field level, the guys, the boots on the ground level and that air that exists over at the pennsylvania -- at the white house, got changed. the question is where? apparently there is only a handful of people who could have done this. let me be very clear. it wasnt james clapper, he testified yesterday. he said he didn...

>> our first interest when we arrived was to determine what we could based on ground level runoff and even the airborne particulates. we had three or four tests that we did initially. we checked the smoke. our testing on site indicated we had ammonium products, we had ketones, aldehydes. what you would typically see in any large industrial batching plant. >> while the team checks for toxins, local officials decide they cant afford to take any chances. hundreds of students from a school only a qu...

The national guard is moving in to get thousands of residents trapped by the flooding out in of all places, hoboken new jersey, right across from manhattan, an estimated 500 million gallons of water needs to be pumped out and the problem is people cannot get out. that is where we have jonathan hunt right now. >>jonathan: it is a desperate situation for many residents of hoboken. there is still up close, today, a lot of water standing in the streets, many homes badly flooded at the ground level a...

Ashore earlier than expected, we also felt like the surge started earlier here. the entire two bottom two floors flooded floor three and above right now. the board walk is shut down. the waves -- as i have watched them from here outside our balcony. im sorry we do not have enough battery power to give you lights outside. the lights -- waves have been coming over the board walk. this is so much worse than when i stood here 14 months ago for hurricane irene. i would say that broadway which runs th...