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>> fritzl's closest neighbors bought his story, too. >> translator: people said that it was irresponsible. what a bad mother elisabeth was just to leave the children on the doorstep. frau fritzl already had seven children and now she has to bring up grandchildren, as well. terrible. >> incredibly, over the 24 years elisabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting rooms in the fritzl house right above elisabeth's prison. none suspected. >> translator: in hindsight, you can always claim that you heard something, like knocking, but that simply isn't the case. i can't recall ev...

can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the "cnn newsroom." jim, take it away. >> thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station ca...

tripoli. will leader moammar gadhafi flee or stay and fight? a man in new mexico rescues a little girl who is about to be kidnapped. being called a hero, but now he could be deported. take a look in the back of that pickup truck. yes, it's a stroller and there's a baby inside. find out what happened next. but first, let's get to libya and the situation their right now. libyan officials are denying that moammar gadhafi and his family are looking to leave tripoli. that as leaders are closing in on the strong hold. one spoke to our sarah seidner. >> reporter: how long do you think...

aren't statistics they are people in pain. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". we begin this hour with what's happening in iowa. right now the state that holds the lead off presidential contest is gauging early support for the republican candidates. we're standing by for the results of the iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is joining us from ames, iowa. don? >> all right. thank you very much for that, wolf. joining me ...

Does not think that zombies are about to take over the earth, correct? >> no, we do not. >> that gives some of your zombie emergency kits, things people should have. switch to the other graphic that i want to put up and show, i'm pulling this directly from your website. once you made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. this includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearinguted is your door step. you can also implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake or other emergency. >> that was our goal. >> is t...