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im ali velshi, one of irenes last stops dealt one of its hardest blows. parts of vermont completely unreachable as rivers start to roar. one official describing the aftermath as awful. >> cut off in carolina. im carol costello. thousands who ignored evacuation orders stranded on the outer banks. emergency supplies heading there by ferry today on this "american morning." good morning. it is monday, august 29th. you lose track of it on these type of weekends when so much happens. there...

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 ...

hurricane winds and then for another six, eight hours on the back side of the storm well get this tropical storm force winds and the continuation of the rainfall. so, a long time yet to go before we see any clear skies here. anderson? i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people at risk, the government possibly picking up the pieces after this massive >> mandatory evacuations, time to get o...

To be the largest mardi gras turnout that weve had post-katrina. judging by the crowds at this hour, i would have to say thats the case. weve had a relatively lengthy carnival season. this is the latest mrg has bear has been for a while. the spring breakers have forgone the beach and come to bourbon street. good times will keep rolling all evening long. thats the story from new orleans. >> work those beads, lady. love the stragglers. i want to be a straggler. low ratings get oprah to reshuffle...

Anyone. going back to katrina and the post-katrina, i saw heartbreaking stories also of the way the people are being affected. theyre talking about bringing in mental health specialists and church aides but how can people, we have the terrible apparent suicide of fishing boat captain in mobile, alabama. how do people cope with this? their lives are wrecked. >> families dont have a way to make an income and little kids here mom and dad talk about having to move. this is going to change a way of l...

And save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. welcome back. were talking to the governor of michigan, jennifer granholm , detroit. lots of press about detroit lately, that its a dying city, no longer the big motor city we talked about before. david simon thats been in the series for hbo on post-katrina new orleans and the battle to come back said something to me in an interview which struck me that great countries dont abandon their great cities. is there a feeling in detroit that a great country h...

Controversy yourself. >> what controversy? >> getting a lot of credit for doing dramatic things in new orleans, where the school system pre-katrina was a disaster. walk us through the big ideas here. tell me a couple of things you think are so key to saving our failing schools? i know you say curriculum is probably first and foremost. something that has to be top priority. >> right. well, let me just say this. what im doing is im facilitating reform. because so many reformers from across the cou...

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Those numbers into account. so the thing that is distressing to me is when the governor goes to a place like keensberg and said we made mistakes and were sorry and we recognize that, but doesnt say what those mistakes are. this came to light only because somebody else outside the government figured out there was a problem. if fair share had not done that analysis, those 4,000 people would still be out in the cold. and thats whats really not appropriate here. >> and mark, this is part of what, as...