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Originally officials predict wed have to wait until the end of the week before the water level would go below n flood stage. it may take a few days to be repaired. the drinking water is at 52% capacity and that is a slight improvement from 48% a few days ago. the residents need to do more and cut the normal water use knowledge half. 3,000 customers are without power. utility workers making progress; particularly, here in downtown nashville where they restored most of the electricity. the major e...

Originally officials predict wed have to wait until the end of the week before the water level would go below n flood stage. it may take a few days to be repaired. the drinking water is at 52% capacity and that is a slight improvement from 48% a few days ago. the residents need to do more and cut the normal water use knowledge half. 3,000 customers are without power. utility workers making progress; particularly, here in downtown nashville where they restored most of the electricity. the major e...

Log onto flu.gov, and together we can stop the h1n1. >> from americas news headquarters i am mary ann rafferty. the storm has passed but there are still more than 200 thousand people without power in the northeast tonight. utility workers from as far away as michigan and maryland helping local crews clear down trees and repair snapped power lines. maine 23 thousand power outages and new hampshire 83,000 customers without power. taliban fighters giving nato and afghan forces help in naja. the ene...

>> we can do that. ill over to the house floor and put our heads together. >> julie: im getting a hard rap. i have to move on. congressmen, thank you very much. >> gregg: from health to social. here is transition. white house has a new social secretary after the embarrassment in the state dinner. juliana is currently, ron kirk will take over the job. she was the finish director of president obamas campaign. she came under fire at a state dinner last november. rogers decided on her own to reresig...

Was and now the big dig. much of the mid atlantic region buried under some two feet of snow or more and all folks can do is move the snow from one place to another. just to get it out of the way and cold temps expect today preserve the mountains of snow for many days to come. no doubt a lot of people will be forced to stay home tomorrow, including kids. but officials said today that crews have been working to clear as many streets as possible to get the region back up and running. >> we absolute...

Through about 2:00 a.m., high tide was at 3:00 a.m., so there was concern the two of them would coincide and create quite a bit of water, pushing waters into the streets in clearwater, it did in some cases and around the area of tampa bay. that was an issue. the national guard i can tell you they are ready. they have high water vehicles and ready to do search and rescue if needed. the governor had 6,000 people, utility workers on stand by this morning in case there were major power outages. well...

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Power line? what was the bus stuck on? >> so, look, the bus was trying to get to fort lauderdale to pick up utility workers. and he was stuck on this. i mean, this traffic light, which fell. and the reason why its on the ground because it got intangled in that. can you see from my flashlight. the bus trying to figure out a way out of this neighborhood. got intangled on that, and so you could imagine, look, even the buss that are actually trying to restore power are the ones that are also getting...

Almost any hurricane. i had friends in florida who left their home on the golf and sarasota. they went to an elementary school. >> the view from the shelter. >> as a result, a lot of people survived. they had downed lines, downed trees and so forth. governor rick scott was on television around-the-clock just the way he should be. telling people what had happened. keep in mind paul, while this is happening, while people are sheltering in place there are thousands of workers, policemen, firemen, u...

Unheard of. and were so thankful that were seeing everyone work together. things usually dont happen very fast in washington or even in the state government. everyones working hard to make sure we get this done. >> a number of schools are still closed. any idea how long the schools will be closed here? any idea how long people will be without water? >> sure. i anticipate the schools will stay closed for a few more days, but thats up tonight superintendents of education. today, when we started th...