where the only way out is by chopper or boat. and some folks in some areas in vermont are frankly strand asked have been since the storm on sunday. near paterson, inning, the passaic river is 18 feet deep. they've been evacuating people from here all day. and just down the river in wallington borough, evacuations went out at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. rescuers have been busy pulling 34 people to safety in paterson, new jersey. 14 kids among them. three dogs. people stayed thinking the worst was over, not knowing the rivers were still rising. even in a place where you expect water, they have never seen anything like this before. look at the images. in little falls, new jersey. more like niagara falls, so much storm water flowing through. in vermont we're getting around, it is not only impossible. hundred of stretches of roads have been washed away. the national guard is bringing in supplies in some of the hardest hit areas. in addition, nearly 3 million homes are without power. a man who just got married on sunday, his entire wedding party is stranded in vermont. they can't get out because the roads are closed. 34 fatalities and officials are saying it is not over yet. mary joins us from new jersey. incredible. does it seem like it is getting worse in some parts of new jersey? >> reporter: you know, it really is incredible. we wanted to show you. this is the passaic, little falls, what it looks like right now. this raging water. if you can believe it, this is an improvement from what it was and we were told last night that as furious as this water is right now, that it was raging even more last night. that there was much more water. the passaic river crested earlier today in this town and others around it. so some water is receding. you wouldn't know to look at the passaic river tonight here in little falls. i was talking to some county officials and they're saying, while this water is receding, that it could take until the weekend. in some places before it clears up. >> we've seen evacuations. have folks been in real danger? >> reporter: they have. we've witnessed some evacuations. we were in paterson, new jersey. what looked like a few inches of water quickly turned to a few feet of water and then add the river currents to it. we saw one man and his son having to be evacuated. basically what happened, they went back to their home to inspect the damage and rescue workers say they were just swept away by the current and they wound up clinging to a log until rescue workers can come in a boat to get them out of there. >> we had a beautiful wedding day. it was our dream wedding. we wanted a rustic wedding. we love vermont. we came here and had such a great wedding. but sunday we were having brunch with our friends and family and all of a sudden, the storm hit. everyone that came to my wedding thought they were getting out of new york and avoiding the storms, and they were thanking me for it. they were like, this is awesome. and then the storm barely touched new york and came to us. >> there are only a couple hundred people who live in pittsfield. their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. do you have enough food, water, medical supplies? people in the town and your party okay? >> we're in need of medical supplies. we have food and we have drinkable water. there is no running water because there is no power and all the water is run on electric pumps. but the only thing is that it depends on how long we're here. they have limited resources. and we have 60 people here that are putting a little drain on their limited sources. >> i'm looking at pictures. it looks like one road is completely cut off. basically the roads are just ill passable out of town? >> yeah. there are several bridges down on route 100. there's a road that just caved in. there are several houses and towns that we watched floating. it has been scary. it's been equally amazing how supportive and cooperative people have been up here though. everybody is getting together. everybody is working together, eating together. making sure people are safe. we've been sending people up into the housing areas where the people live and make sure they get water. >> what kind of medical supplies do people need? what kind of medical supplies do people need? >> the stuff that i've heard that is most urgent is specific high blood pressure medicines. a couple people with heart conditions that are urgently looking for medicine and getting real nervous. >> lets hope the national guard or some folks are able to chopper in with supplies. marc, i appreciate you being with us. give my best to your wife and all the wedding party and everybody in town. we wish you the best. we'll continue to check in. >> thanks so much, anderson. >> after being stuck with your whole party, between national guard, the national hurricane center, department of homeland security and fema, the federal response has been massive as it is in every big national disaster. what if it weren't that way? my next guest has some ideas on that and they've been talking controversy. ron paul said if elected president, he would do away with fema. >> fema is not a good friend of most people in texas. they just come in and tell you what to do and can't do. they tell you you can't get in your houses and hinder the local people and they hinder the volunteers from going in. there is no magic about fema. and more people are starting to recognize that because they are a great contributor to deficit financing and quite frankly, they don't have a penny in the bank. >> congressman ron paul joins us here. thanks for meeting with us. you say we don't need fema. why? >> we've only had it since 1979. and they don't have a very good record. these natural disasters are very, very dangerous. i don't understand why we turn it order to a bureaucracy. as a whole they don't do a very good job but fema has the worst reputation of almost any of them. and i live on the gulf coast. i've had the same position all the time. we've had hurricanes and disasters. and i get so many calls. i have had more calls from fema, than all the other agencies put together. when we had katrina going into new orleans, they needed ice. so fema ordered ice from the northeast. they ordered 211 million pounds of ice. it traveled for two weeks and they finally ended up in nebraska. and they never got it. that's a typical way of how fema works. if you want efficiency, why don't we look at how thing were handled before we had fema. now the department of homeland security, and they just don't -- but really, my big -- go ahead. i do have another bigger gripe. > let me just say. we reported, i reported extensively on the failings of fema during katrina. the trailers, the ice. they also had body recovery teams on the ground very quickly before other people. that was a fema response. they do have expertise in some areas that some states don't. if you had left everything up to louisiana officials during katrina, probably more people would have died. >> well, that remains to be seen. >> the louisiana official were certainly not up to the task. >> the thing of it is, you create more hazard by saying, you 98 and the government will be there. they'll always be there to take care of you and pay your bills. they're broke. they can't pay the bills. the worst part is the economic consequence of saying, well, i can't afford my insurance. and a lot of them are middle class people have their beach houses and they don't, they can't get their insurance because it is costly so the government guarantees it. so they give a reason for people to do dumb thing. they build in places the market says don't build here. it is too dangerous. and then there's floods and all these problems. and then when katrina hit, some of the guard units around the country that could have been helpful, they were over fighting wars in the middle east. so it is such gross distortion. thing weren't as bad. before 1979 without fema, it wasn't disasters. go and show me where there was a much worse care before femalea and i don't think you can give me any of that. >> you talked about going back to 1900. way before fema was around. in galveston which is part of your district, i think, wasn't it, it was fema who rebuilt it. they needed fema. there wasn't a seawall in galveston before the storm. and it wasn't, they needed to rebuild because locals there decided it was too expensive for them to cover all that on their own using local funds. and because they didn't, 6,000 people died in that storm. if fema were abolished, wouldn't you be setting the stage for life or death conditions in poor areas of the country? >> i pointed out in 1900, galveston, which is in my district, they survived without fema and they did rebuild the city and it was mostly local funds. probably some state funds. >> but there was not a seawall there because they decided to gamble because it was too expensive. if you had a federal government who was involved, wouldn't that be -- >> anderson, anderson, wait a minute. the seawall you a built shortly there after. fema didn't build in it 1979. that has been around a long, long time. you didn't need fema to build it. and just think of the management of all the levies in the country. now they're starting to study even the levies on the river ar role the federal government should play. >> let me over, let me, let me finish. they were all built by the federal government and they failed. so the federal government had a lot of responsibility for the creation of the mess in new orleans. >> you don't think there is any role for the federal government in disaster response? or do you? >> rescue operations, i think so. as a matter of fact, my approach, i think was a very modest and reasonable approach when they came for funds. even today or back when we got hit at galveston. i think i'll vote for the funds but you have to cut it. we're broke. the economic condition of this country is dire. so you cut $2 billion from overseas. put $1 billion against the deficit. put $1 billion into helping the people that we taught to be dependent on the federal government. so i think that's very reasonable. to say, it's endless. the government will take care of us and we're broke and we're in the midst of this economic crisis which will get a lot worse and not be concerned about it. say, well, the people need it. from the start of fema being involved and taking over management, they aren't very efficient. they're very inefficient. they give no bid contracts, big corporations make a lot of money on this. they would have been better off in katrina if they had just written a check to everybody and not gotten involved in all the mess that they. did they handed out checks to people who didn't even live there. i don't know how anybody could defend the inefficiency of what went on in katrina. it hasn't changed. it is part of the department of homeland security. just look at the tsa. >> thank you, sir. let us know what you think. i'll be trying to tweet tonight. ahead, the syrian government denies they're murdering their own people. they've denied they're killing children despite the videos that we've seen. they deny and deny and deny. they deny they're keeping the rest of the world from seeing the truthful we're keeping them honest yet again with new reporting on what a u.n. mission to syria saw, what they uncovered and what they have to say about their government post. the syrian government promised us right here, the syrian ambassador said the u.n. can travel anywhere they want in syria. and later, crime and punishments. the missing woman robyn gardner. how her traveling companion looked and acted the day she disappeared. we have new information about the self-proclaimed polygamist prophet warren jeffs seen looking shockingly thin. is he in a coma? 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do you deny that's happening? >> absolutely. children are not targeted by the police. neither by the army. but let me comment on what you have just said. the report of the high commissioner is unfounded and biased. she didn't reflect any of my government's points of view in the report. she didn't even go to syria. she just relied on reports coming from syrian refugees in -- >> back in april, you yourself said that no international commission needed to come to syria or was allowed to come to syria because your government was perfectly capable of being transparent and doing your own investigations. that does not seem to be true. >> no, no, no. i was mistaken from my words. we have allowed after the presidential statement adopted by the security council, we have allowed a humanitarian mission. >> the syrian ambassador to the united nations on this program. after not allowing the human rights delegation into syria, despite his fancy suit and fancy talk, the government did not allow a delegation back in syria. then the regime reluctantly allowed a u.n. humanitarian mission to visit. that's what he was talking about. we've just gotten a preliminary statement from them. while there is no countrywide humanitarian crisis, meaning basically there is enough food and water for syrians, quote, the constant presence of government official limited the ability to fully and independently assess the situation, however, the report continues, the people it was able to talk to in areas of previous or ongoing unrest that they felt extremely intimidated and under constant threat. this is what happened on the day u.n. observers visited moments after they left. so what happened predictably, government forces opened fire and people died. right after the u.n. left. and as always, these videos come via the internet through dissidents. we haven't independently verify them. we're not permitted into syria to see for ourselves. the ambassador lied saying we can go and travel freely. that's not the case. we've had people there and they're not able to travel freely. syrian official deny responsibility for what you're seeing even as they deny their stifling access to outside reporters and observers. >> you don't know all the faces of the story. >> first of all because you're not allowing us in. you're not allowing reporters to actually go to the front lines and see this. you're restricting reporters. so it is disingenuous to say you don't know the truth when you don't allow the international community to see the truth. >> anderson. this is wrongful will we have allowed three delegations of journalists and reporters to enter the country. >> and you keep them in damascus or control them very carefully. >> we don't control anybody. we are there to protect them. >> i want to say, i reported in syria years ago in damascus. five years ago and i had a government minder who followed my every move and observed who i talked to. and that was in a time when there wasn't allegedly these armed gangs. yet again that claim was contradicted by the u.n. mission. look at the q and a. was the mission given free and independent access? answer, although the mission was permitted to visit any location they requested, it is doubtful they have fully complied. remember, his claim that government minders are only there for protection, take a look at what happened when the american ambassador, robert ford, went out on the streets of damascus. he was surrounded, harassed by a pro assad mob. this aired on a tv station which heavily ended the footage and tried to paint the picture of him leading an anti-government protest. it takes a lot of editing to make even cheap propaganda. the rest of the video we barely even edited for its length. we think its truth speaks plainly, every night on this program, we speak to people like the man from daraa. joining me, here we are five months into this uprising and the yeem is still killing people. do you sense any real change? >> no. not at all. i think what is really interesting, it is now for the opposition to have to think whether peaceful protests work and the debate rages. we stick to peaceful protests and are we always being slaughtered by this regime. should we take up arms? and i think many of the wiser heads have prevailed. if they take up arms, that is exactly what the killer regime wants. it will lure them into a test they cannot win. syria has become a test of this notion of peaceful protests against a violent regime. >> that's what we've seen. it still stuns me. the fact that these people are going every day on the street holding their heads with dignity and talking and calling out and getting shot because of it. you say the regime is running out of money. >> if you look at the head of the central bank in syria has come one this very lame play on marie antoinette. he said the syrian people shouldn't eat cake. they should eat brown bread. by the way, that a lower quality bread and cheaper bread. they're running out of money. there is talk the vigilantes should go around and beat people and kill them. >> they're dressed like, civilians but they free reign to beat people. >> they're hoodlums and they've now begun to threaten that they will go on strike. they will not due do have the dirty deeds. the regime is running out of money and it the syrian economy is on the ropes. if the europeans go through with the band on the importation of syrian oil, i think the regime would have a real moment. >> and even iran, of all the horrific regimes, iran which has been a stalwart ally of syria has said you have to listen to your people. >> don't you love it