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and female in their 30s. a third victim in the hospital will survive. richmond police believe the fatal shooting may be related to a shooting 30 minutes earlier where a 23-year-old man was shot on gertrude avenue. he was not seriously injured. right now police don't have any suspects in custody. lisa french with the richmond police department believes the spike in homicides may be gang- related, one group from north richmond the other from central richmond. >> i'm optimistic we'll get to the root of the problem and hopefully get some of the community members involved and try to cut t...

threatening lives and small -- in small towns especially along the spillway which was opened. linda so is live this morning with the very latest on the story. linda. >> reporter: those floodgates have not been opened in four decades. it was a tough decision to make because you're basically opening the floodgates and sacrificing house of homes and businesses to spare bigger cities down the river. the water rolled across the cajun river basin swallow farms and mandatory evacuations have been issued in some parts of louisiana. officials are warning people who refuse to leave that they w...

Tonight, which is great, but the recovery, the rebuilding, the money that it's going to take and the time, that's when they're going to really need the support here. >> hey, catherine, can you describe that particular neighborhood and area where you are and show us a little bit around there just so we can get the idea. we know there's major damage. show us around a little bit, if you will. >> reporter: absolutely. the bugs have started to come in as the sun goes down. this is the farming community. it's a very rural community. i'm going to have tim, as i step down on what's left of this home h...

seek cover and do it quickly. >> i told everybody to get down, cover up, get into cubby-holes, get into a tight space and get away from the windows. that's the best thing to do. >> there were more than a dozen unconfirmed reports of tornadoes next door in south carolina, but the destruction as not as extensive as what we see in north carolina. trees were uprooted. power lines were knocked down, but no major injuries were reported there. in virginia four people died from the severe weather. three of them in gloucester county. the fourth, a child who drowned in the flash floods there. ...

>> from neighbors -- >> i think the fact that a lot of people don't have health care, and so you push to the extreme. >> reporter: but from police -- >> i would hope that most people would understand that is the so. >> reporter: a risk that for kathy myers didn't help, and authors say could have killed. >> when a but enters your body, there's no telling where it's going to go. >> a but, a trip to the er and still not a lot of help. it begs the question, how far have you gone to get health care? send us your story. it's a busy hour ahead. let's begin with chris lawrence, live in new orleans. ...