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Not at some point flooded. and people now are just having to deal with it. im a block of the ocean here. this entire apartment, this ground level here, completely and utterly flooded. you can see the debris. bricks come off parts of their walls around it. it is a similar story up and down these streets. cars have just been moved hundreds of feet in some cases, completely destroyed. at this stage i have to say you talk to people here, its a question of assessing the damage really before they even...

>> this will be the finale. this is the song they always play on the 4th of july. >> but no one is prepared for what happens next. >> oh, my god. >> fireworks started going off at ground level. they just started shooting sideways. they were coming out towards the crowds and towards the people. >> they started going off quickly in all kinds of direction, and a few blew towards us. >> the crowd begins to panic. >> it happened so quickly that there was really not time to react or even realize what ...

You slam the administration for things like water treatment plants, gas pipelines. you advocate new legislation to allow companies to share information more freely, but im sure youve seen the criticism to your plan, which is that, frankly, sharing information alone is not enough. what do you say to those critics? >> well, we must have information sharing because it is the companies that are at the ground level who are getting these cyber threats and if they have a reporting relationship that is ...

Plumes of smoke are releasing deadly toxins into the community. and its the job of ted padgett and the dallas hazardous materials team to determine the threat. >> 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 industria...

Together make for the water hazards being of primary concern. the storm surge 6 feet above ground level in the southeastern coastal louisiana area. and inland the heavy rainfall and flooding that could result from so much monther coming out of this slow moving tropical storm. martha: one of the big concerns is something everybody will be watching is the new flood control thats been put into place. what in terms of your models and what you are looking at, how do you think that system will work? >...

Reporting that the belief based on your model and your projection from the national hurricane center it could come at high tide. >>guest: that is not good combined with the storm surge, the rise in the ocean water produced by the storm, the result is a high total of water level, and 6 to 12 above ground level above your toes, somewhere in alabama, and mississippi, but we cannot pinpoint who gets the worst and the highest and that is why people are told to evacuate by the emergency management off...

>> joe, joe? >> by starting new government programs. you will have to grow the economy and grow the economy by trusting people who run the economy and they arent in washington, d.c. but mitt romney doesnt understand that. hes a micro manager. hes a technocrat and why people dont believe, mike, that romneys policies would be that different from obamas policies. >> but, joe, you know, before -- you know, brians got a lot to say on this, obviously, but before we get to brian, i would say off of wha...

His sense of adventure and lack of sense of danger, its like having a 2-year-old. >> one of his favorite fixations -- >> hes always liked to climb. right over the backyard fence, there was a 120-foot power tower. there was a greenbelt behind the house with a series of electrical towers. and john had started to climb them. >> so far, john has only managed to get up the scaffolds at ground level before his family has coaxed him down. but that day, with both parents away at work, he ventures higher...

there are reports that a letter was found inside of a package apparently sent by holmes. according to the cbs news, the letter talked about shooting people. the package was discovered in the mailroom at the university of colorado. in syria, the city of aleppo is bracing itself for major all out offensive on a rebel strongholstron strongho stronghold, and there are clashes through the country today leaving 91 people dead with 19 of them in aleppo. and then there is lots of excitemen...

Gabrielle giffords took a tram most of the way. then braved subzero temperatures walking to the summit, 12,600 feet high. >> amazing when you consider just 18 months ago she was shot. now you are heading to france. you think you are going to maybe? >> vacation in paris next month. >> hiking involved? >> at a nice cafe/bar. ground level. >> this will be the most exercise you are doing. vino. >> 12 ounce curls. coming up, serious topic, debates about gun control and this nations access to fire p...