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>> earlier this morning we had 32,000 homes without power. at 5:00 a.m. reason i found out 28,000 who had evacuations, 211 of those vanquished honored happened. we are continuing to get request for things and we will continue to make sure they get the help they need. reporter: back in tuscaloosa, mourning the loss of a champion swim team member. seeking shelter in the basement of a local home during the tomato when a retaining wall collapsed on him. he was named to the sec academic honor roll. a...

Reforms must also address the issue of undocumented labor currently in american agriculture as well as reform of the broken h2a visa program to ensure farmers have legal means to hire workers for planting and harvesting when local workers cannot be found. >> it seems like the local restaurant hotels, construction, were all find fighting over the same labor pool which is getting smaller. >> reporter: perhaps no sector of the farming industry has more at stake than strawberries. a spokesman for th...

Could go up. georges family farm in morgan hill grows garlic, beans and peppers among other crops but as recently as last year the farm couldnt find enough labor and had to leave about $400,000 worth of garlic in the ground. >> its harder every year. we are having trouble to find people willing and able to pick the crops. >> reporter: the labor shortage is a concern for farmers around the nation. he says the problem began about five years ago and is now threatening the very existence of some far...

Loose and when you have flash flooding and torrential downpours, three inches of rain, yesterday alone, not as much as the 7 inches originally predicted in some areas but the water, mud, boulders, debris just comes sliding down those hillsides into homes and this is the concern and why people are out of their homes and the sandbags are still out, though the good news which we talk about is the rain is supposed to let up, a little bit later today. and the weekend looks like it may be dry and we c...

We have live pictures for you. the plane was met by a number of police cars and fire trucks as you can see on the tarmac in philly. the aircraft is isolated from everything else right now. they used the word quarantine about the way theyre protecting this plane in a remote corner thaf runway. were going to get a live report to you as soon as we get more information on the scene very shortly. bill: thats happening right now and also in southern california, bracing for a fourth day of heavy rain a...

Station fire burn area. 167,000 acres had burned here, just above those k rails there is that burn area there. there wasnt a lot of vegetation there, and so there is a potential here for some mudslides. the bulk of this storm still to the west of us off the pacific coast, but theyre expecting that this could be just a real big one. theyve got 30,000, 30,000 sandbags that have already been laid out in this area, and those big k rails that you see there, they already have about 10,000 feet, linear...

Beyond" here on msnbc. were getting word secretary of state hillary clinton has landed in haiti. coming up tamron hall will bring us more on that as we continue our coverage on the heartache of haiti. ill be looking for you next week. have a good sunday, everyone. but pressure... and congestion. (announcer) you need a sinus medicine ooohhh... that rescues you from all three symptoms introducing new sudafed pe® triple action™. for more complete relief from the sinus triple threat. get more c...

A secret ghep taliban fight, making nice to the locals. here, four special force medics man a clinic seeing grateful patients from all over the valley. and here a school is packing them in. >> enrollment at this school and this village is increased by at least a third in the past month. a sign that security is growing in this valley, a sign that, perhaps, the special forces here are making a difference. >> the shop is new, too. part of a bizarre built with help from special op. all these civil a...

Hes got the dt 466 to boost pressure up. its rocking and rolling down the track. hes got plenty of frame flex and torque. front end carrying beautiful out there, and then it just goes kaput. its all that action going on back there. im gonna say its a rod, maybe a fuel line back there thats causing all that problem. >> yeah, you can see the bottom end of the motor came away, and then, of course, the blower belt came off. a lot of people think the blower belts come off first, but its usually anoth...

Hes backing up, just about hooked up to the sled, and once again, well check in with rob. >> well, guys, talking to a lot of drivers, the...and some of the ppl officials, this is really a drivers track here tonight. its getting a little bit hard here in the super-mod class, and its a drivers track, meaning that the guys with the piston engines -- they can ease their way in. they can work this track. they can make that road, but the guys with the turbines, when they lay it all on the line, thats ...