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more than 2.5 million homes and businesses are still without power. the death toll has risen to at least 43. and thousands of people have evacuated from flooded neighborhoods and communities. yet, flood advisories are still in place for portions of seven states. one of the towns hardest hit is little falls, new jersey, along the passaic river. mary snow is there with the latest. mary, this is the worst flooding in a century there. are things improving at all? >> reporter: its hard to...

northeast are desperate to escape the flooding and the damage unleashed by hurricane irene. were tracking the rescues and the danger right now. and well put the arrest of the uncle in a dui charge. this hour, and whether they matter to most american. im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. up first this hour, a very tough political debate over national security that will unfold between president obama and his republican challenger, whoever that might be. the commander in chief...

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>> this is "piers morgan tonight." eva, how are you? >> im good. how are you? >> lovely to have you in my studio. >> yeah, congrats on your show and all of this. this is beautiful. >> it certainly is -- oh, you mean the studio, yeah. >> they spent some money on you. >> yeah, spoil me, temporarily. now look, i said to describe eva longoria to a way in which i can talk to her and they said, well, shes a producer, an actor, a business owner, a model, a nightclub owner, a philanthropist,...

eva, how are you? >> im good. how are you? >> lovely to have you in my studio. >> yeah, congrats on your show and all of this. this is beautiful. >> it certainly is -- oh, you mean the studio, yeah. >> the studio is beautiful. they spent some money on you. >> yeah, spoil me, temporarily. i said, describe eva longoria in a way i can talk to her. they said, shes an actress, shes a business model, a nightclub owner, a philanthropist, a student. i mean, my god, woman, theres no end to your...

Immigration. >> true. >> and republicans think that this is a good political issue for them. >> and colin, what about holder? whats the legal argument against the utah bill? >> well, the legal argument against the utah bill is basically that the federal government has the right to control naturalization so they look at this and say, well, the states really dont have the ability to did that and you know, there may be some legal validity in that, but the reeal question is, if the federal governmen...

Hispanic vote and basically at the same time wants to play to the afl-cio. i dont want deal. thats pretty cynical, dan. politics is cynical, but thats very-- >> for the reelection, he needs union money and so do the hispanics and mainly what they get is rhetoric. >> okay, colin, there is he a state. utah, which has succeeded in passing a bipartisan immigration reform. what are the components of that? >> right, the utah law is unique because it combines enforcement provision was this sort of of g...

Agriculture, and it was interesting the reference that he made about how a young man started out in the field, in the cucumber fields and ends up being an astronaut. those stories abound. theres parents, grand parent worked in agriculture and they want to serve as elected leaders today. senator juan vargas, state senator here in california, he was actually a classmate of the president at harvard law school. and his grandfather and father both came here in guest worker programs. they worked in th...

On this, that is problematic. he was, after all, in 2007 one of the people who said he supported president bush and senator kennedy and senator mccain on the comprehensive immigration reform and when the time came to vote on it president obama voted against a critical element, one of the three elements of the immigration reform which was the guest worker program and this is more a political speech and im not sure it is where the president ought to go to build on the image of being a strong leade...

Being right there not accountable to the american people and to the american government. >> indeed. lets turn now to the presidents speech on immigration. weve had so many recommendations for resolving the immigration issue from a guest worker program a full amnesty, the dream act. yet nothing has made its way through the house. why do you think this is such an intractable problem and can this president resolve it once and for all? >> well right now, martin this president has political capital f...