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Right here, its apocalyptic. I mean looking at that and were going to hear, i know you had on your show people on the ground there my show also going to talk to some of the residents who are climbing out of this with kids, trying to juggle that with schools being closed, figuring out a place to live, where to get water, food. It is an ongoing crisis for these people, and were going to continue to shine a spotlight jim, thanks so much. Ill take it from here you bet. And good morning, everyone. Yo...

torn off buildings. the treacherous situation has led to rescues all across florida. the fire chief of fort myers says his department conducted 200 rescues overnight over the course of just a few hours. this video shows a group of good samaritans who call themselves the call your county cowboys, they pulled a man stranded in his car to safety. in orlando, a reporter who happened to be on the scene rescued a woman trapped in flood waters. the situation has led biden administration to pl...

Firefighters rescued over 40 people — including a family of six — who were stranded in the Buffalo winter storm. They all spent Christmas Eve at the firehouse.

Arthel: kentucky governor andy beshear is said to hold a news conference any minute we will bring it to you live with it begins. our coverage of the storm rescue and relief efforts continue. when we go to arkansas where neighborhoods look like war zones, aishah hudsons insane hundreds and hundreds of homes and businesses were lost. a live update from one of the hardest hit towns coming up next. stor, youre an owner with access to financial advice, tools and a personalized plan that helps you bui...

Because i know you guys partner with people dogs, pigs, cats, rabbits, whatever needs saving. what have you experienced so fa with the storm? >> this is unusual for typical storm rescue because typically we have more warning. we are more of a i guess for lack of a better word, were no in there as first responders, but as pre- responders we go in before the storm to try to get dogs out of harms way. the to save them from any potential damage in a shelter, but also to make room for the dogs that w...

I know that you guys, dogs, pigs, rabbits, whatever needs saving, tell us what you have experienced so far. >> this is unusual for storm rescue because we have more warning. we are more of for lack of a better word, not first responders but pre-responders. we go in before the storm and try to get dogs out of harms way, save them from any potential damage in the shelter but make room for dogs that come after and in this case you had significant issues with forecasting trying to figure out where i...

They are being staged across the state. they serve 5 million customers across the state and they expect 3.4 million outages. >> in years past we were in the great northeast area for superstorm sandy. now its our turn. we are pleads we have been able to assemble this workforce that continues to grow. reporter: the military vehicles being used by sheriffs departments and s.w.a.t. operation. but they are also being used for storm rescue and recovery operations. the paramedics cant go out in their a...

>> sure, david, just quickly because i do want to get to the other david on the russia investigation. >> he wasnt in the hardest hit area and he shouldnt have been and he deserves credit for not going there. when a president travels, a lot of assets travel with him and they need all the assets focused on rescue and relief. >> youre right, that was intentional that they went outside the storm center because they didnt want to create a distraction. on any other day, news broken here on cnn that do...

I said, southeast of houston, on the way to galveston island, in the last 24 hours we are told by officials here that more than 2000 people have been evacuated from their homes and you still see a lot of these evacuation and rescue efforts being conducted by all these volunteers showing up in their own boats, many of them flat bottom boats like that. in fact, if you look down this particular street that were standing on, there is another gentleman putting in a boat right now as we speak to go ba...

Breaking tonight, weather officials say that more than 51 inches of rain has now fallen in the houston area. that is a record-breaking amount. it is a new measure of catastrophic flooding thats so vast it can be difficult to comprehend. take a hard look at the scenes of devastation here. water appearing to stretch for miles, and it does, consuming homes, cars, entire neighborhoods, leaving only the tree tops visible in some places. thousands have been rescued, but many are still trapped. tonight...