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>> i am the luckiest person in the world. my family is safe. now i need to check on my neighbors. >> michelles home burned in the steiner ranch community northwest of austin. today we are reminded not all fire victims were lucky and we may not know all the dead. the biggest fire has killed at least two people, and two others, a mother and toddler died elsewhere in the state on sunday. today a 100-member search team from texas task force one plans to fan out southeast of austin where au...

thank you very much. im brooke baldwin. i want to pass along a quick note on an announcement from mitt romney. the former republican governor of massachusetts will lay out his plan to put americans to work. hell do that a little later this hour in nevada. we, of course, will bring that to you live. first shall were working right now to get more details on this deadly shooting that happened earlier today in nevada. heres what we know right now. a man reportedly entered this ihop restaur...

worth has destroyed about 30 homes already. it threatens many more. this is so big, the fire is so big and intense that firefighters havent been able to contain any of that. right now crews are getting people out of its way and trying to protect the homes still standing. the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres. air tankers are expected to drop water on the fire today. it is unclear how this fire started, but the epic drought and the heat may have made this the worst fire season in texas...

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...

41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. ill speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. well get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, theres talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back...

days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the har...

this is prattsville in the cat skill mountains. officials say the volume of water rushing through the riverbanks is more than whats flowing over niagara falls today. just think about that. it stranded people in their homes and hotels. no way for rescuers to get to them. next, i want to share video from rhode island. 300,000 people there in the dark. no electricity. several of these, you can see them downed trees, just sheer wind power took them down. half the state is affected here. li...

Storm should be? >> chad? >> clyde. >> oh, clyde! this is headed maybe here. >> here are all the models. heres the east coast of the u.s. heres bermuda right there. we call this the gutter ball. we like gutter balls. they can do whatever they want. you get good waves along the east coast, surfers are happy. all the people in bermuda are happy -- >> all these things are pointing to this, nobodys worried about that? >> not yet because the big high pressure that sits here is for a while pushing it ...

The onshore flow is making storm surge on that northern island, northern coast, and also, there are a couple mountain ranges through here, likely causing an awful lot of flooding, flash flooding going on, flash flood warnings throughout most of puerto rico, throughout the morning hours. and we talk about the power thats out in puerto rico. you think how can it possibly take four to six months to put the power lines back up? well, you cant take bucket trucks from georgia, put them on the intersta...

Agreeing that this is a gutter ball. what we call a storm between bermuda and the u.s. we knew it would take some time to figure out whether it would hit the u.s. or go to the right. so far everything now down the middle. maybe it will be a strike right through the middle of the bermuda chain and also for the u.s. that will be absolutely perfect. so what are we dealing with right now in puerto rico? well, it has been raining so very much. some spots could have picked up 30 inches of rainfall fro...