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nice to be here with you for the next five hours. tropical storm irene after lashing new york city, irene is dutching heavy, heavy rainfall in parts of upstate new york and also new england. the storm made landfall overnight as a hurricane in two stops, first on the landfall on little egg inlet in new jersey, and then it hit another landfall, coney island, new york. at that time irene had weakened to a tropical storm. >> on long island, irenes storm surge flooded downtown long beach. s...

thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that im glad were sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimate...

presidential election. >> the caucuses arent until its winter, until snow on the ground. >> at least its been entertaining. up first texas governor rick perry on the attack in new hampshire. hit the ground running and hitting president obama hard calling his handling of the economy a disaster. hes not backing down from his verbal assault in iowa this week on fed chairman ben bernanke. heres what governor perry said. >> if this guy prints more money, between now and the election, i do...

affecting our kids. max page. or should i call him mini darth vader. you remember max page. we introduced you to him last we week. he is 6 years old and on his third pacemaker. he took capitol hill by storm this week. max and his family came to washington with a group of kids to put the pressure on lawmakers. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> to protect medicaid coverage for children and preserve funding for the programs that train half of the pediatr...

a moment on "world business today." in south korea, landslides and flooding sparked by heavy rain has killed at least 44 people. rescue workers are searching for survivors in and around the capital. hundreds of people have lost their homes and thousands dont have power. were getting the first videos of the moment of the bomb blast in oslo during fridays terror attacks. the norwegian prime ministers announced an independent commission to examine the killings there and on utoya islan...

could make or break the debt crisis and i know youre saying ive heard this before. but here is the deal today. lawmakers are not mincing words. less than five days to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on government bills. today the house is due to vote on speaker john boehners plan. as his own party holds the majority of votes he is really getting frustrated with the divisions that threaten its passage. in a closed door meeting, boehner actually told the feuding republicans, qu...

frustrated. its 100 and some degrees heat index outside, and i can understand people getting worked up about this sort of thing. more on politics in a moment. i want to start with a street level view of what has to be considered an emergency. justin bruno heads up the office of emergency management. he is kind enough to step outside and tell us what he has been up today. thank you for making the time and braving the heat. is your city in emergency mode right now? >> we absolutely are...

Right now. this is sea lion kimmy and we want to get some tricks from you. can you give me a kiss? can you give me a kiss? oh, shiver me timbers! can you say you love fox? oh, he loves fox and how about a good-bye wave. >> good-bye. >> say bye-bye. >> coming up in the morning, we also, of course, will be talking to dolly parton. you have to stick around for that. back to you guys. >> thats right. so shes got dolly parton and seal as well down there in myrtle beach. >> by the way, for those of yo...

Tossed around like match boxcars. right now, you have rescue workers searching the rubble to make sure they have everybody out. the tornadoes formed with almost no warning and people had just minutes to run for cover: >> all of the sudden, a funnel shot down and immediately when it hit the ground, debris started rising up into the air, it was actually falling into the parking lot of the business i was at. >> i was yelling to them, cover up, put your hands over your head and ride it out, theres n...

japan should have taken the threat of the tsunami more seriously. >> a european food crisis as scientists look for the source of a deadly infection. there is anger in spain as vegetable exports are turned away. and the final endeavor. the space shuttles last mission. were live at the kennedy space center in florida. fifa is poised to re-elect set blater as president, the most controversial leadership vote in footballs governing body. fifa ignored calls to postpone the ballot. princ...