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Stores this morning. people have been braving the cold to get their hands on one all morning. fiery explosion has killed at least one person and destroyed a row of homes in all allentown, pennsylvania. were now getting word that all eight homes were destroyed. dozens of others damaged. hundreds of people evacuated including residents of a nearby senior center. right now, rescue crews are looking for five people still unaccounted for. earlier the fire chief talked to cnns "american morning" abo...

Street, you know, its going to follow the path of least resistance and could seek ground into your home and stuff and any ignition source inside the home can actually cause or create that explosion. >> at one point, 500 people were in shelters this morning and since allowed to return home. tens of thousands of war widows taxed out of some of their benefits. they are told that they have to remarry to collect in full. taking a closer look at this so-called widows tax and how many grieving spouse...

That the power is transferred to the vice president from the president when he is no longer in office. so it could very well be that the power will be transferred to omar suleiman. that is what we are reading. >> and we are talking about omar suleiman, mubaraks intelligence chief, and there has been some controversy about this because this is somebody obviously very close to the president who is under extreme fire by protesters. so what is your sense, if, in deed this does happen, if he does ste...

He did say, okay, im not going to run again for president. but i am going to stay in power until that point. im going to start making changes. now were getting word that egyptian president hosni mubarak could step down as soon as tonight. that statement apparently coming from the military panel that this may take place. so were working this story for you, trying to get our reporters up with as much information as possible, and as you saw, we had live pictures -- we did get fred pleitgen on the l...

Distrust of but also fear of. but, really, its hard to say at this point where omar suleiman will figure in the equation. he certainly has been for many years the right-hand man of president hosni mubarak. he is somebody who mubarak trusts implicitly, but its hard to say at this point isha. >> ben, stand by. we have shown ow viewer the pictures. you have seen the sights. listen to the sounds with us out of cairos tahrir square. ben, a short time ago, just before we got you up live, the crowd wer...

Mounting against president hosni mubarak. the u.s., the people on the streets we continue to see scenes of. what of the military in all of this, this development, if you will, that there are serious discussions that president hosni mubarak could step down before september? whats their fingerprint on all of this? >> reporter: well, basically who controls egypt at the moment? its the military. the police have come back on the streets in a limited number but its really the military who has all of t...

Evidence that surgery on babies with spina bifida while in the womb allows some children to grow up and walk without crutches. sounds incredible doesnt it? it is. well talk to one mother who took the chance to have the surgery and what it meant to her family. and theyve come to a point where its overwhelming. oh gee, im scared to tell you ive got this amount of credit card debt or ive got a 15-year-old and we never got around to saving for their college. thats when i go to work. we talk, we star...