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This morning. garrett, what is the situation where you are in new bern? >> reporter: ali, they are getting new rescue calls but i think not at the pace they were overnight. they got about 500 of those rescue calls and workers were out really at first light this morning in boats and trucks whenever they could to get people out of flooded neighborhoods. most of the flooding was due to the storm surge, which i'm pleased to tell you is not nearly as bad as it was earlier. you see some debris behind me. it was pushed up about 11:00 p.m. last night. when it got to the high tide today, it was not pus...

Pile the water up in the sounds. it's the friday just before noon high tide, that's when i think we're going to have a high watermark in many areas. 20 inches go from myrtle beach to wilmington, where we're going to see incredible amounts of water from the rain and the surge. that's why we're thinking this is going to be historic down here. 5:00 p.m. this afternoon hurricane force winds move into the area.

And then a little bit farther downhere was a flashlight that he was carrying, and i think that's where trayvon hit him. >> so you think based on the testimony that you heard, you believe that trayvon martin was the aggressor. >> i think the roles changed. i think -- i think george got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldn't have been there, but trayvon decided that he wasn't going to let him scare him and get the one over up on him or something, and i think trayvon got mad and attacked him. >> do you feel like you know for sure what happened in the altercation? and did the other jurors fe...

Nuclear power in america, believe it or not, the state of illinois is number one. pennsylvania is number two and south carolina is number three. georgia, by the way, ranks number nine on that list. jamie mentioned this, three-mile island, 1979, you developed so much resistance to nuclear power in america. that was 33 years ago. now you see the concern from the other side about keeping this away from centers of population. here is new york city down here. 30 miles due north is buchanan, new york. that is the indian point nuclear power plant. 50 mile radius affects 7 to 8% of the u.s. population...

400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, he's an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republican senators on a trip to libya today. the group has been meeting with libya's national transition c...