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Another problem. the aclu or civil rights groups saying that is a cockamamie idea. he cant force people to build that wall. what is your answer to them? >> they told me i couldnt refurbish historic churches in my town and i not only fixed the church but i work on more churches. they said i couldnt start seeing work crews and we have more inmates working the community on restraint. these are people looking for causes to justify their existence was the truth is i dont work for the aclu, working fo...

Water supply for the city of columbia and because of the situation here theyve declared a boil water advisory telling residents to boil their water vigorously for a minute before drinking it or cooking with it. back to you. >> john, clearly a desperate situation. the rain continues and, of course, were waiting for governor nikki haleys press conference which will occur at any second. arthel? >> as jonathan just pointed out, this historic storm that is creating huge challenges there for emergency...

Kept really busy. take a look at. that folks in louisville underwater. some areas there getting more than three inches of rain in just a few hours causing that flooding. work crews are also performing more than 20 water rescues because of all that flooding. the water covering baseball fields cars and rising around homes. forecasters say the rain could return tomorrow and again on tuesday. troubles overseas.battering the coast of china. thankfully there are no reports of any deaths. but more than...

Weekend, thanks to a major oil spill. work crews are cleaning up more than 100,000 gallons of oil along beaches near santa barbara, desperately hoping to save wildlife endangered by the toxic goo watching ashore. here now is stephanie elam. >> reporter: the beaches should be packed here in santa barbara county for memorial day weekend, but instead on this strip of beach shall its all closed off and thats because of this oil spill. they are still working to clean it up. if you look behind me you ...

Errors it should get rid of the problem of work crews getting run into by trains out there and more importantly, it should stop the problem of a train go nothing to an intersection or a turn too fast and simply coming off the tracks derailing, all of that should be stopped. important to note if you put all of this into place, its still only going to get rid of 2% of the collisions and derailments involving trains every year. this is an important 2% because it should include all those catastrophi...

Believe we would get, is no more train-to-train collisions like weve seen before wouldnt see switching errors somebody doesnt realized theyre put off on to a different track, trains running up on work crews and not what we saw a couple days ago, which is a train coming too fast into a turn because the computer wouldnt let any of this happen, but this is important -- in terms of train collisions and derailments, this would stop 2% of them. 2%. an important 2% but many more go on and do nothing to...

>> i figure its cold when your eyeballs ache. thats cold. >> reporter: in long suffering boston, no relief with the mercury at three below. >> maybe if you are going to visit boston, come in june. not february. >> reporter: heavy, wet snow is a hazard to buildings across new england, crushing the roofs of homes and businesses. >> the beams started to collapse and split and fall in to the attic. >> reporter: meaning work crews have to move fast. >> this is so much heavier than it looks. >> report...

>> reporter: the high water came rushingparts of town, carrying mud and debris. >> im one out of 12 kids and weve lived in a lot of places but ive never experienced anything like this in my life. >> reporter: while some people struggled with the aftermath, others are prepared to deal with the high water. work crews are building temporary levies in delano, minnesota. >> there are some neighbors who have lived here for 40 years. theyve never seen this high water level before. >> governor mark dayt...

And all that debris. john roberts works with us, what is the latest on the power outages. >> reporter: today, the weather improved dramatically. the sun was out for a matter of hours. most of the snow, at least in downtown atlanta is gone. now to restore the power for tens of thousands of people. 205,000 people in the state of georgia, 95,000 people in the carolinas, knocking the tree branches down, they took down the power lines. governor nathan deal has dispatched strike teams to the hardest h...

Start popping back up, and that could be causing these work crews who have been working tirelessly throughout holiday, a few more headaches. as for those in the maine area on the east coast, theres another cold snap headed in their direction. back to you, brian. >> nbcs kevin tibbles in lansing, michigan. politics now. hillary clinton and governor chris christie running neck and neck in a new poll on the 2016 presidential race. new twist in the battle for the heart and soul of the gop. those a...