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The damages from hurricane irma. one hard hit area was jacksonville, the area saw historic storm surges. the flood waters are fanlly receding. thousands are without power. ketdy beck is standing by for us in jacksonville. katie, this is a fascinating story. as the storm, the hurricane, started to move west away from jacksonville, the news came in that jacksonville was going to flood. and flood it did. >> reporter: indeed. as you said ali, these waters are receding. we are at high tide along the st. jone john's river. the water is just cresting, just slushing over. a much different scene from...

Joe's probation officer. >> i tried to get the police to do something, and they're like, he's standing across the street. he rode by. what do you want us to do? it's not against the law. >> it even got to the point where other neighbors in the area saw him drive up and park his car, you know, a half a block away and he'd walk up to the house and looking in the windows and the side doors things like that with us not even knowing it. >> diane kept records of the hell that palczynski put stacy and their family through. >> luckily, so people wouldn't think i was crazy, i wrote down everything that...

Late because the explosion took place before the crew could arrive. debris was sent every where included on to the elevated train tracks nearby. the blast could be felt up to a mile away. here's what people in the area saw and felt. >> it knocked me from my bed on the floor. it was really loud. scared me to death. >> i thought i was going to die in my apartment and my kids wouldn't have a mom. >> this was a tragedy of the worst kind there was no indication in time to safe people. the national transportation safety board which investigates pipeline accidents is investigating this one. they ar...

Gusty winds and perhaps lightning that could spark more wild danger. cooler temperatures, we'll get a little bit of moisture in the atmosphere but the dry lightning has led to the potential for red flag warnings as well as high fire danger across this region, not only today but tomorrow and really into the early workweek. good news that firefighters have contained 45% of this wildfire. bad news is mother nature not helping out that much when we talk about those dry lightning, dry thunderstorms that could invade the area over the next several days. if i could, i wanted to show you the potential...

congress. and former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzales is here. he'llw weigh in on holder. president obama's health care law, the supreme court could keep parts of it or strike it altogether. is the individual mandate constitutional? if it is found unconstitutional, does the whole law have to go? or can the mandate be instruct down? and is medicaid expansion constitutional? and will the tax law prevent the court from addressing the mandate issue right now? a chief correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, also a practicing neurosurgeon, joining me here in new york. s sanjay, what hap...