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Rains. it spawned tornadoes even. those tornadoes blamed for at least two deaths. we begin our coverage with clayton sandell. >> reporter: images from the countrys midsection showing clearly the impact of an 800-mile-long weather system that has already spawned tornadoes, knocked out power and made roads impassable. at least two have died from storms in arkansas. one elderly woman in burnwell and a man in ashtown. his wife and others injured after a twister touched down. >> it could have been wo...

They understand about hurricanes. they know from time to time a hurricane comes marching up the coast from florida, and you have to deal with it or you move away. chad is also very right about that issue of erosion. thats a big consider here. not just on the dunes, but also out on the roads. a lot of concern in this area about roads being watched out, and sand making those roads impassable. some 250,000 people expected in this area for the fourth of july. now the officials are scrambling trying ...

>> lets get started. severe weather plaguing much of the country. heavy rain around denver caused flash flooding making some roads impassable. it was the third day of storms there. but colorado isnt the only place with weather problems. our coverage continues with abcs larry jacobs. >> reporter: from the west to the east, mother nature has us on the run. in illinois, hail and big strong enough to break car windows. >> they were starting to bust out and the glass started flying. it was really s...

He was skiing with others who couldnt dig him out. the 27-year-old was trapped in heavy wet snow in montana. makes avalanches much more likely when its heavy and wet. he is the fourth skier to die in an avalanche there since the first of the year. water levels are coming down on flooded rivers and streams in montana and wyoming. the melting snow pushed waterways beyond their limits making roads impassable and isolating hundreds of people. some towns are still evacuated. other residents are tak...

Today the risk for severe weather is still present by a little bit farther east across the southeast and up into the mid-atlantic. if you live in the city of jacksonville and charleston or raleigh, north carolina, as we head into this afternoon and this evening you could be seeing damaging winds, large hail or isolated tornadoes. that will be something to watch. we currently have heavy rain pushing through parts of tennessee down into alabama. you need that umbrella as you head out to work this ...

Minnesotas governor declaring a state of emergency after a serious winter storm made many roads impassable. the governor called in the national guard to help some drivers. some areas saw as much as 14-inches of snow. the situation only made worst by winds gusting over 30 miles-per-hour, causing snow drifts and near white-out conditions. ill be a guest on bill oreilly. im going to pick a pinhead of the week and so is he. well talk about why it seems like comedians never crack jokes about presid...

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Okay. get to some breaking news and this video is coming out of middle, tennessee, weve been telling you about the flooding there. this is a baby being rescued there this morning. again, from our affiliate krn. its in nashville, tennessee. and were told that rescuers saved a baby that was trapped by flash flooding there this morning. a number of roads, as weve been talking, even in the midwest there is flooding and the same thing is happening there. a number of roads impassable. this heavy rain ...

What we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this city were unemployed according to the most recent census. ...