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Community support. any kind of basic needs that they might need. we are working through a process of establishing what were talking about, how many structures, what kind of damage were looking at. im sure that will play into a part of the federal program. >> you told me earlier that the governor said yesterday this was the worst firestorm here, worst fires in 100 years. hes 42 years old. hes saying he and his family have never seen anything like this. so, mayor, thank you very much for joining u...

Eight-foot mangrove trees on the island, so thick you couldnt get on to the island. you could only drive around the islands, couldnt actually get on the islands. it was covered with birds. >> cat island was one of the barrier islands off the coast of louisiana that saw the most damage from the oil spill. >> cat island was ground zero to the oil spill. theres a series of barrier islands that run along the louisiana coast. what happened was the oil came along the west side of the mississippi river...

>> it is really interesting. my family is full of adopted kids. my parents, doug and ainsley thompson adopted five little girls in the 70s. it has been a big part. there we are. horrible picture but there we are. you can look at us and know that we obviously knew that we were different. i always sensed that growing up. i decided to look into my family in my 20s. i realized we were much like a tree. while the tree outside of the ground may be very healthful and strong and growing upwards. the roo...

Land and thats were talking about a mountain, that land has no more root system. the trees, the grasses and everything that used to allow the water to run off is all gone. just dirt there. when the dirt becomes so saturated, it just begins to run off as a mudslide. heres what happened yesterday. thunderstorms and will happen again today. thunderstorms developed along the ridges of the mountain here and that thunderstorm activity caused rain to come down. as the rain fell in the same place for a ...

>> reporter: a last resort if you cant get indoors when thunder roars. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> learned a lot in that report. very interesting. most of the strikes arent direct hits on people. they say the boy scouts, probably 100 foot pine tree that got struck nearby, and the root system literally wept under their feet. thats why they were getting zapped from that though it was aint direct hit. >> you know you hear what alex said. you get low to the ground. make yourself as small as po...

Says its a little bit too early to tell whether or not this was an official tornado or extremely strong winds. whatever it was it caused damage like this. you are looking at a root system of a large tree knocked down on top of its home. when you compare it to the house you are looking at two stories of roots right there. about what is suspicious is some of the homes have trees on top of them like this. you look at the top of it much smaller than the one knocked over. most of the neighborhood loo...

Levels there. but also on the lower shore of maryland as well as southern maryland. you know, tremendous amount of precipitation and winds and then, as you mentioned, the root system of trees tend toway, and expecting to see a lot of downed trees, downed wires, and power outages that will probably last days, if not, you know, into, you know, early next week. and certainly dont want to be in the business of forecasting when well restore power, but just sufficient e it to say it going to be a long...

full of details in one minute for you here on cnn. a free election four decades overdue. the first real live democratic exercise in libya since the moammar gadhafi era. nearly 3 million libyans picked parliament members today waiting in long lines to vote at polling stations all across the country. weve heard a few disruptions but overall international election observers are pleased. >> in the rest of the country things have been going smoothly. reports from the east where its been mor...

The same place back in 1958. he took the hydrangeas to give as a mothers day present because he was too poor to buy his own. well, the new ones came from the same root system he planted on his mothers farm. and, finally, a college graduate got more than a diploma this weekend. she got a marriage proposal from her boyfriend. the student and her new fiance met during their first week of college. she said yes. their families urged them to wait until they were done with school to take the next big...

Statewide drought are drying up the christmas tree supply. >> we watered and irrigated but we can only do so much of that and the babies have a lot of trouble getting through the summer. >> reporter: twila nash owns this christmas tree farm. >> some people like the traditional pine tree. >> reporter: her family is fighting mother nature to keep their source of income green. even with regular watering, the exceptional drought took the biggest toll on younger trees. they dont have a deep root syst...