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Champion surfer mick fanning says he is totally fine after fighting off a shark during a competition in south africa. after getting smacked around a bit and after hitting back to the shark also, fanning swam for his life, was picked up by rescuers. those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 20th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now" with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. well good morning, everyone. we begin this half hour with the extreme weather in much of the country. heavy rain in southern california caused flooding and mudslides, washed away an interstate highway ...

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>> another area hit in stanford, north carolina. and rick reichmuth. what does it look like on the ground? >> this is the area where that hardware store was destroyed yesterday, you can see that right across the street here. everything is blocked off now. power obviously out all across the region and so they had gone in and kind of blocked everything off as they're restoring power and many cars in the parking lot were destroyed and great stories how people were saved by the workers, by the lowe's employee and coraled up about 70 customers and to the back of the buildings and the building destr...

Much advimisery. the unstoppable tide racing across farmlands. these aerial pictures are from nhk. you can see what the monster wave did to this one area alone. and ireporter harrison sent us these pictures he took during friday's earthquake. it was so strong, he says, he could barely stay on his feet. now, this story stopped a cnn team in its tracks. an enormous landslide in japan buried 13 people alive. cnn's kyung lah tells us what she found. >> reporter: one of the things we've been looking for are the stories along the way as we try to make it up to the area hardest hit, the area hit by t...