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People and forced more than 400,000 people to leave their homes. helicopters plucked some people from rooftops. as can you see there where they have been stranded. holding on, literally, for hours. the record breaking rain fall breached a levy in eastern japan. derek van dam is here with more about it. it is just amazing that this is just mainly due to a lot of rain. >> japan has their fair share of catastrophes and this is quite a doozy and at its worst, the flood water covered 37 square kilome...

Agency reports that rescue teams are struggling to meet some people stranded by floodwaters. the area affected is along a river in osaki city in northeastern japan. nhk reports 20 meters section of levy, thats about 65 feet, collapsed on friday. >> a tropical storm spawned the fast-rising waters. people had little warning that this was about to happen. right there. houses just swept away so far thatity powerful system has caused three deaths, 22 people are missing but hundreds of thousands of ap...

Expanded to roughly 80 meters wide. that led to the large area, 37 square kilometers. they come to my graphics, and you can see what a difference a day makes. tokyo sky cam looking downtown. breaks the cloud and sunshine in there from time to time. this is live downtown tokyo. conditions are improving. at least temporarily. which is good news. and well talk about that in just one moment. heres the 37 square kilometers of flood water impacting this area. the river is northeastern japan, there are...

We love being pis rabble. we love being miserable. we are creatures of habit and we dont like that to change. do we love being miserable or do we like hard work. i feel like people like the long vacations. they want to plug into the matrix and relax. >> we like the fact we are ranked highly on fatalities. i have the three reasons why america will always roll. the chocolate water fall fountain at the golden coral and andy [bleep] levey. >> that is it. i didnt know what you would do with number th...

Forward was the educators of new orleans. the educators here today thought of the children who would be left behind. you understood that bringing new orleans back to life requires getting students back to school. and even though some of the edgeicators lost everything you owned, you let nothing stand in your way. today we celebrate the resurgeance of new orleans schools, honor the resilience of a great american city whose levy gave out put people never gave up. >> president george w. bush making...

Trump. but my job precludes that. >> im not able to respond to that question. >> whether he is your heart. sanders speech taken over. protesters. camille he said that the black lives matter -- >> that was accrued paraphrasing mr. levy. >> can we play the tape? >> yes. no, thats fine, go ahead, im sorry. is that not what you said? >> if thats what i said, its not what i meant. theres no doubt they believe what their saying. but they believe and belief is not enough make something substantive. it ...

You see in the old days when you had an oil spill, like my grandfather would always do they would throw it on the oil. >> it was absorbent. >> it would float to the top. wouldnt be easier to pick it up if its on the top? when they started sinking it to the bottom we knew they wasnt trying to pick it up. >> while the gulf is left with chemical residue, many residents are left with health issues. from rashes on the skin to respiratory problems to fatigue. its a health mystery. >> check the air qua...

Gay and transgender people amid backlash indianas governor signed an amendment based on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation. in a few days, a piece of musical history will hit the auction block. they decided to day bye-bye to a manuscript that made him famous. a generation knows it line by line. nick parker has the story. ♪ so, bye bye miss american pie ♪ ♪ drove my chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry -- >> reporter: a song that defined a generation, an 8:36 ode to the s...

Dealers, arms dealers and others who he believes are behind some of the ills of the world at the moment. isa? >> ben in rome, thanks very much, ben. now, in a few days, a piece of musical history will hit the auction block. he says bye-bye to the manuscript that made him popular. here is nick. ♪ so bye bye miss american pie ♪ drove by chevy to the levy, but the levee was dry -- >> reporter: a song that defined a generation. an 8:36 ode to the social upheavals of the 1960s and early 70s. th...

The type of sanctions on north korea and if youll recall for a while he did that because he caught them counterfeiting $100 u.s. bills so he went in and put the sanctions on and the rej joem regime just came to a halt. the general could not pay and they didnt have the hard currency to pay for it. the state department leaned in. this would have been during the bush administration and convinced treasury or overrode treasury in exchange for additional problems. but levys point was this lets shut do...