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that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs can't. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and illinois, hundreds of miles away. amber lyon is in the town of wilmington. do the folks you met bel...

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 ...

i'm gloria borger. john king is off today. thanks for joining us on what turns out to be a very significant day on the campaign trail. mitt romney who has been taking a rather low-key approach to his republican opponents so far today decided to take some jabs at the man who's replaced him as the official frontrunner, texas governor rick perry. and he did it in perry's home state. >> thank you. >> during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume' and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. >> i'm a co...

41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i'll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we'll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there's talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we're looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? >> we don't ...

parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they don't have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and waters. look at that truck trying to get through the water. that water has to go somewhere and it ...