>> hey, thanks for sitting in for me last week, that was great. >> absolutely. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. rachel does have the night off and i'm melissa harris-perry. so what did you do this weekend? if you live in the eastern u.s., chance is your weekend revolved around irene, it did cause enormous damage from north carolina all the way up to canada, at least 37 people were killed by the massive storm, and the high winds knocked down as many trees that around five million americans are without power, but it's what the storm did after it left the atlantic coast and went inland that took many by surprise. the land lock state of vermont home to all of those green mountains got walloped by irene, which was a tropical storm by the time it got there. high winds weren't the problem. rain was the problem. today, vermont is dealing with its worst flooding since 1927, flooding that has killed at least two people, and because of all that rain, the vermont state