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Shopping center and they tried to block bulldozers from taking down trees. thursday was the third consecutive night of protests. this informal referendum of sorts on recent turkish government policies. an american woman killed in syria in the midst of the civil war there. syrian tv reports a 33-year-old woman from flint, michigan, was killed by government forces. they claim she and two other westerners died fighting for the rebels there. nick walsh is tracking these developments and is joining us from beirut in nearby lebanon this morning. what do we know of this woman and why was this ameri...

Was telling what the needs were, and if they had needs, and so -- and i think the president has approved all the declarations that have been requested from the various states that were affected by hurricane sandy. jenna: governor, what does west have need right now? >> our biggest concern right now is the amount of customers out of power. we've gone from 140,000 customers at 6:00 this morning now there are over 275,000 customers without power. that number continues to increase as the snow continues to come down, bringing down trees, bringing down power lines, and obviously that is our biggest ...

Incidents statewide involving highway lane closures. most of these closures are results of down trees, utility poles and flooding. the highest concentration is monmouth county and no county has been spare soda, void travel unless absolutely necessary. i want to say this now to private employers. unless you can identify a safe route for your employees to get to work, i'd ask you to allow them to stay home from work today. we've deployed 800 employees from njdot to clear these incidents and we were able to open, as you know, the garden state parkway this morning for its full length. new jersey t...

citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation's capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn's brian todd is there. >> fredricka, temper...

>> on this holiday morning. >> and we've got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i've seen in a long time. >> that's the impor...