shep: seven minutes before the hour, new information on roof collapsing just coming in. this is going to happen throughout the day. a mall in civic center roof this is north carolina. doing a number, a portion of the roof at berkeley mall collapsed sent water and debris down into the stores. let s go to morehead city. jennifer, how is it looking? reporter: back half the storm feels a lot stronger than the front half did. every storm is different. that seems to be one of the marks of irene. we re standing on a hill.
when there s a tornado you should go to the basement. so, i want to show you what it looks like. come on, we re going to walk down, and this is pretty remarkable. when you think about it. because, look, you have the foundation, basically, intact. you ve got a little bit of the roof collapsing here. but for the most part, this basement looks perfect, aside from, of course, the debris. but structurally it s good. they had a couple of dogs that were down here that took refuge, and they re okay, too. carol, back to you. that really is an amazing demonstration. the basement s intact but, oh, that s just so sad. his house. i can t imagine what he felt like when he came upon his house. i know 750 homes were damaged in the st. louis area and the cleanup has begun. dan simon many thanks. a daring prison break, a frightening drama unfolding. hundreds of terror suspects pour out of a prison.
on the streets of cairo. we have heard gunfire, we have heard sniper fire. we re going to continue to follow it throughout the day here on msnbc. that will do it for me. i m chris jansing. see you right back here tomorrow and every weekday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. contessa brewer will pick things up next. hey, contessa. hey, chris. we re going to check in with nbc s lester holt there on the ground in egypt to get an up to the minute update from him. and there are reports not only of gunfire and more violence, but a massive crackdown on journalists there. the egyptian army has arrested dozens of them, they say for their own protection. also, president obama pushes his agenda, his green agenda. he s leaving for pennsylvania after attending this morning s national prayer breakfast. we ll take his speech live from pennsylvania when it happens. all this snow over the past few weeks has caused some real damage across the country. cameras capture a new england roof collapsing under the
complaining about the blizzard out east. take a look at the picture. this is around lake tahoe. this is no, it s not. that s not a picture of no, that s not. it s not. there it is. put that picture up. stunning. you like that? about two feet of snow across the sierra nevadas at the river ended out of lake tahoe and in towards all right. take a look now at the other picture, this is the sad side of the storms from montana and a roof collapsing because of under the weight of the. he they received there. so, the school, and that s going to make for some rough going back to school and kids are getting back the next few days. go back to the weather maps to move forward and take a look at temperatures across the country right now. aen cool air certainly across the far northern plains. and across the east where the warm front is and it s balmy across much of the eastern seaboard and move forward, take a look at the forecast for today. shaping up like this.
yesterday people woke up around the country seeing news online and on twitter, facebook, reports of the metrodome roof collapsing. crews will be assessing the panels. they came crashing down. the facilities director here says it looks worse than it really is. they hope to fix if in a matter of weeks maybe even days. they ll assess the situation today, hopefully by later today or at the very latest tomorrow we ll know a little bit more about how much longer it will take to repair. as for the game between the minnesota vocikings and new yor jiets, they ll be playing in detroit. fans who can t go will get a refund. if you can go, you ll get preferred seating. in addition, they ll be giving away free tickets to those in detroit who want to check out that game. let s get more on the flooding in the northwest. cnn all-platform journalist patrick ottman is live in seattle. patrick, if you would, give us an update.