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handing out bottled water and clean up supplies. >> maam, a response i got from a viewer when i talked to you earlier, was the cell phone app that people could download this app and find shelters. red cross shelters. describe that for me again. where they can get it and exactly what it is used for. >> we have a free application for iphones and ipads. it is a shelter app. you can download it from itunes. it will show you where all of the shelters are that we have open. if you are in a l...

if youre in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> 65 million people in danger. >> to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> weve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldnt be doing it now if we didnt think this storm had the potential to be very serious. >> were tracking this monster minute by minute and going live ...

horizon from us now. shes definitely a big storm and people in her way better banted down the hatches. >> slamming down into the east coast. >> i cant stress this highly enough. if youre in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> 65 million people in danger. >> to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> weve never done a mandatory ...

thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start w...

talking about cuts and specifically whats handed to em because of the debt ceiling deal reached earlier this week. initially they know they have to cut 350 million which more or less they are okay with and wont necessarily sacrifice our national security, but where the big question mark comes is if that committee can not decide on how they will make those additional cuts to equal around or about $1.2 trillion, they will have to cut hundreds of billions, 500 billion, 600 billion, 700 bi...

her husband, of course, we are talking about is arnold schwarzenegger, the newly former governor of the state of california. here is now maria shrivers brief statement, and she says quote. this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. end quote. very short statement making it clear there that she would like some time ...

Levees are being topped. but the army corps knew that. in fact, they put down sheeting, they put down plastic sheeting on top of the levees so that when the water did go over the top of the levee, it didnt wash away, didnt erode all the dirt. they said were going to lose a half a foot of water, its going to eventually come back down, and we dont want to lose the infire levee. lets cover it up and not have a washout. thats already happening. and we knew that general honore has talked significantl...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you cant take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get...

Water there. and lets go to something more scary and pretend nothing is done, and there is no levees or floodwall and there is nothing to keep anything back. this is, this river right here, and that is what new orleans would look like. and i can do one better to zoom into better. if they did not close the walls or no levee existed, new orleans under water again by 10 to 15 feet of water. that is not going happen, because there are levees and there are walls and doors, but think about what that w...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the waters got to ...