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Before we move on, let's break down one of the black clouds, home foreclosures. realtytrak, a company that follows the industry, has newly released numbers showing that in the first three months of this year home foreclosures went up 35%. six million homeowners are at least 60 days behind on their mortgage payments. the obama administration tried to stop the bleeding last april with its $75 billion foreclosure prevention program to improve mortgage rates and terms for borrowers, but after a year and over one million participants, just 231,000 people completed the program. 158,000 dropped out a...

158,000 dropped out and many more are waiting to see if their loan modifications go through. a treasury official defending the program's rocky start saying, we continue to improve it based on lessons learned. last month, the obama administration unveiled changes such as offering relief to unemployed homeowners and providing more incentives to banks and investors to reduce the principal on homes that aren't worth what is owed on them. it is too soon so know what the changes will do for homeowners in trouble. by the end of the year as many as 1 million homes will have been taken over by banks. t...

Poll tan areas are all in fair game. not everywhere will see the 40 inch totals. 10 to 20 inches is nothing to joke about. and could cause serious damage and it will over the next couple days. >> over in corpus christi there are already reports of damage from intense winds and all that rainfall we have been talking about. down power lines and collapsed roofs are among the early reports of damage. as the hurricane continues to barrel down the surrounding area. let's go to corpus christi. not far from where the hurricane made first lands fall. what's the situation now? >> last hour we were talki...

The winds at one point were coming from behind us, they short of siftd, that's to be expected. and it is definitely hurricane force winds that we are seeing out here. the rain has let up slightly in the last hour or so. as you know, those forecasters are putting the rainfall here in feet. there are about 158,000 people in the corpus christi area that no longer have power. you can see some of the lights behind me. those people further up the coat in town still have power, but other parts of the city are dark, including us. we are functioning off of fj power right now where we are. the main conc...

Do things like thatgain and again. it was the time a man who won a charity at a golf course sued trump for refusing to pay out a promised million dollar prize. they also settled. trump agreeing to donate $158,000 to dhart of the man's chce that donation, which was a legal settlement trump was required to pay also ended up coming out of the trump foundation coffers. other people's money. charitable foundations are also legally barred from making political contributions but trump used his to give 25,000 to the re-election campaign of the attorney general who was investigating him for fraud alleg...