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destroyed. this didn't end when the wind died down. this was and continues to be a very big deal and water is the reason why. you are looking at where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely. they don't have much to return to. the correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri, after the tornado. she was stranded by rising flood waters. she joins us shortly. still stranded there actually tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto waterlogged ground and full rivers and reservoirs. look at t...

What determines that threshold? so people who exercise, elite athletes, can pretty much take in all the sugar they want and it doesn't matter. it's one of the reasons why there's high fructose corn syrup in sports drinks. it repletes liver starch, the whole reason for consuming the sports drink, is to get hydration and also to replete your guy coagain. replete your glycogen. the problem is, what if you're not guy gen depleted, what if you're sedentary, a fat kid in school drinking a sports drink? that's the question. that's who's drinking it. and the answer then is, if you overdo it, if you en...

So important when talking about potential poisons. at 15 grams, was it as toxic, a poison? >> no. basically what we've done is overdone it. each of us probably has a personal threshold beyond which we shouldn't go over. the question, of course, is what is that threshold? what determines that threshold? so people who exercise, elite athletes, can pretty much take in all the sugar they want and it doesn't matter. it's one of the reasons why there's high fructose corn syrup in drinks, it repletes liver starch, the whole reason for consuming the sports drink, is to get hydration and also to replet...

That claimed 10 lives took place in a mosque. the demonstrators were inside the mosque. they were hold up there. they were refusing to leave. a government envoy told them that either they would leave or there was going to be a massacre and true to his word the military fired antiaircraft weapon at the mosque, at least 10 people dead. by some counts as many as 23 were killed. more than 150 injured. also today, we heard, once again, from moammar qaddafi. he took to the airway state television. he gave a ram bring speech over the telephone. he blamed the problems of the country on osama bin laden...

Diet soda, comes from melted sugar, but in other applications it can be chemical ammonia and could lead to cancer. i can't believe you're drinking it. after all that? >> it's the overnight shift. what do you want me to do, man? crazy hours here. >> when we return, the most popular churches. >> we'll have a big shift in faith, beliefs and dwindling congregations. i'll have a few more sips of this and come back with more "world news now."ave a few mo f this and come back with more "world news now." if your racing thoughts keep you awake... sleep is here, on the wings of lunesta. and if you wake ...