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days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the har...

can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the "cnn newsroom." jim, take it away. >> thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of m...

First a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind ive seen in a long time. >> thats the impo...

>> on this holiday morning. >> and weve got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars....

All right. about 33 minutes past the hour on the cnn saturday morning, im t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your day here with us. one of the stories were keeping a close eye on. the water levels. the ever rising water levels and memphis and other mississippi towns. oh, my goodness, spring storms are adding to this growing flood threat. experts say it could be the worst flooding in more than 80 years. with that in mind, memphis, the city and also shelby county authorities have issued s...

Meanwhile, residents have been ordered to evacuate in one city because of potential flooding. more powerful spring storms making their way across the country. lets check in with alex for the latest forecast. >> good morning to you, alex, as well. looks like we have a break from some of the strong storms saturday, and more in line for sunday and next week. its lining up on into north texas. we are dealing with strong to severe storms here moving across texas. the thunderstorm watch in the yellow ...

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Jenna: a fox news alert, want to take you back to massachusetts, outside of boston, where youre watching what police are doing as far as searching this mall. its a helicopter shot that -- if the helicopter shot pulls back, we dont have control of that unfortunately, this is at a mall in burlington where there are reports of a gunman with a rifle inside the mall around 10:00 this morning. police are searching the mall, a perimeter is set up. so far, no reports of gun shots or injuries. well keep ...

Weekend, and now there are some new weather worries on the horizon right now after that vicious line of spring storms hammered the south part of this nation over the course of the weekend killing 45 people across a five-state swath. more than 80 tornadoes, 80 touched down in north carolina where they are used to hurricanes but they are not used to this. the total number of twisters across the nation in that region in particular is staggering, 241 tornadoes ripping through in just three days. lar...

>> reporter: it took ten minutes to change the face of a neighborhood from a spring day to a struggle to survive. this is what is left of joe styles house. he and his family rode it out on the second floor. >> she came and dove on the two kids. i came and dove on here. we heard the loud bang and the doors and the glass and everything flying around. >> reporter: the storms deadly trek started in oklahoma on thursday. but as it spread east, the destruction and death toll only grew. in north caroli...