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reason why. youre looking where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they dont have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain...

mary, thanks. this is cnns breaking news coverage of hurricane irene. im martin savidge at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. >> im keira phillips. thanks for staying with us for the hurricane coverage. a massive category 1 storm is what were talking about, slowly churning up the east coast. it its large, dangerous and relent areless. at least nine deaths are now blamed on this hurricane, more than 1 million customers have lost power. >> right now irene is closing in on ocean cit...

hunkered down for the weekend. about 14,000 active duty and national guard troops had been put on standby. thats the view of the storm from the white house. suzanne kennedy has a closer look to the folks who live in the district of columbia and the situation there. in fact, suzanne youve moved since last we talked. where are you right now? >> this is 39th and edmonds. this is the first tree that fell. cnn sunday morning, coming to you early. suzanne malveaux joining us for this cover...

good morning to you all. welcome to this cnn sunday morning, a special edition here. suzanne malveaux joining me, t.j. holmes here with you. we have special coverage of hurricane irene which is getting closer and closer and closer to new york city. anderson cooper is live in greenwich village there. john king on long beach for us this morning as well. >> already what a morning its already been. very well foreshadowing the day thats in store for new york and north. an incredibly massive...

international, who are watching our special coverage of hurricane irene, a category 1 storm, a massive storm that is on its move, up the eastern seaboard. it came ashore a couple of hours ago, making landfall near camp lookout, north carolina. theres new video we are getting from nearby, atlantic beach shows you what irene has left behind already in some areas. the hurricane storm surge swamping the town with ocean water. also, irene is spinning its way northward to some of the biggest...

nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and thats basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means...

wolf blitzer is off tonight. im joe johns. youre in "the situation room." >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected president of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. dont wait, dont delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. we how is it going in new york right now, mary? >> you just heard the president speak about this hurricane. new york had asked the president to declare emergency assistance. and the president did...

can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the "cnn newsroom." jim, take it away. >> thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of m...

shows the moment of impact. 76 people were killed in the bombing and shooting rampage on an island near oslo. survivors are describing the terror. >> when the shooter got closer, i was left with only one question. how would i like to die. i mean, let him shoot me or shall i just drown in trying to escape. the violence just wont stop in syria. at least eight more people including an 11-year-old boy were shot and killed by security forces outside damascus today. that is according to a ...

seven killed and 90 injured in the downtown explosion. at least ten shot to death at the summer camp shooting spree. but up first, stunning new drama in the debate over deficit spending in washington and the prospect of a historic government default just ten days from now. republican house speaker john boehner tonight calling off negotiations with president obama saying the democratic white house is too gung-ho about raising taxes and too timid when it comes to squeezing money from s...