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on this sunday. from the cnn center, welcome to your cnn sunday morning. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. 5:00 a.m. in st. louis. 3:00 a.m. in berkeley. as always, a special good morning to our service men and women watching on the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. i'm t.j. holmes. let's start with politics and with the president. he's headed out west today to washington state, has a couple of re-election fundraisers on his schedule. also has a social madia town hall on monday, he'll be talking about jobs, of course. last night he had this messa...

flooding, washed out by roads have been waiting for supplies, relief workers are now using air drops and some are having to resort to four-wheel drive vehicles just to reach these people with everything from pampers to prescriptions along with, of course, food and water. amber lyon once again following this for us out of vermont. live today in wilmington. amber, i see a lot of people out and about behind you. it looks like some progress is being made. >> reporter: yeah. there's a lot of cleaning up going on out here, brooke. at one point, residents say the water would have been over ...

>> reporter: much of iowa has been under attack by mother nature. nine inches of rain in just three days in some parts, including here in colfax, iowa. this area very hard hit in 1993. flooding hit the city in that year and after that they built a levee they thought would protect it, even after a record level, however that levee was topped this week and this is the result, extensive flooding in much of the city and many residents have had to evacuate. none of them given time even to pack or to sandbag. that has left them very concerned about property damage here, there is a lot of basement flo...