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Officials have addressed the long security lines at chicagos midway airport sunday. a reporter says the line was almost 2 kilometers long at one point. and for our american audience, that is just over a mile long. the tsa says it did not open checkpoints early enough, even though more passengers would be coming through. it also says stopping was less than anticipated. the sunday after thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel days of the year in the united states. well, if you can get through ...

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Simultaneously cracking down on protestors against him. hes been doing it for about a week now. this is brilliant. hes trend setting. this is what bloomberg is going to do in his fourth term, what obama is going to do in his seventh term, blazing the trail. whats really impressive, hes trailing the future. it was a loose group of nominally independent states that controlled the government and the media and the whole thing collapsed because of a common myth, a failed generation of afghanistan, an...

blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still dont have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? >> reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. h...

There is a lot of local farmers, but something this magnitude being so close in the urban setting is very unusual, and i think that it is probably going to the be trend setting. 18 minutes past the hour and time for top stories. minutes ago in montgomery county, maryland, emergency workers rescued a woman desperately clinging to a tree in vie lots lock road. you saw the rescue here on cnn. the woman was a kayaker who lost control of her boat and grabbed a hold of the tree. no word yet the woma...

Savannah. >> miguel almaguer in anchorage, alaska, this morning for us. thank you. and president obama called senator stevens widow and reached out to the family of sean okeeffe already. it is something alaska is definitely mourning the loss of the man they call uncle ted. in colorado the presidents hand-picked candidate michael bennet managed to buck the anti-establishment trend setting up a showdown with a tea party candidate. kelly oconnell is live with the latest. >> reporter: we spent tim...