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Top. residents say they haven't experienced problems in past storms so they decided to stay in their home even though it was under a mandatory evacuation. those rescues went through without any serious injuries. good news there. through out the region there are reports of downed power lines downed trees and about 700 thousand people without electricity. because the storm has been moving slowly taking a while for the winds to die down. power crews go back and restore electricity. back to you ainsley and patti ann. >> jonathan live in new orleans, thank you. janice dean has been tracking the s...

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New york police department's stop and frisk program. they last year engaged in more than 700 thousand stops and frisks. and overwhelmingly the young african-american and latino population, it's a different in society and it's about time they come together that we deal with police, violence and surveillance. >> we are seeing a real political backlash that is gaining and growing momentum to the stop and frisk policy. i think it is really getting stronger and stronger. we'll see you at the march on sunday. dave? >> i think we learned the prolegalization, young activists write on politics of somet...

Gas prices should be lower because we are at record drilling. no matter who is responsible we have record drilling going on in this country. president obama has pu in place even though he has little control over gas prices. he has put in place higher fuel efficiency standard. that's a concrete policy. why is that important? because if your car is more fuel efficient you are paying less money. that's an important issue. to say the production levels are high because of obama they are high because of the bush administration. it is interesting now that the obama administration is talking so much...

that hit at 5:00 in the morning. that's rare for that to happen. that's not saying storms won't continue, because they will, and you'll see rumbles of thunder and there may be a tornado, but they're not going to have the f-4 or f-5, the 200-mile-per-hour tornadoes. they're not going to happen at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. as you see it, the storms are moving to the northeast. they'll move to the carolinas and go down pp hill, as they do into north carolina, south carolina, they'll lose some of their intensity as well. i'm concerned in the gulf coast where it's muggy, humid. that's wh...