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Minutes before they made their arrest. an uninvited guest living under her home. heating repairman discovered beer cans in the crawl space that the stranger may have been living in for nearly a year. a virginia dog triggered panicked when passing drivers spotted the pooch running near the norfolk zoo. >> i'm driving down granby street and there's a lion that ran across the street. a baby lion. >> emergency operators were flooded with calls about the animal who was deliberately groomed to resemble old dominion masc mascot. baseball home run king barry bonds got about 36% of the votes from...

When it comes to the evacuation orders, are people there getting the word? i mean, i know some people weren't able to get out. but were people able to get the word of what the storm's conditions are now to know that this storm has effectively stalled in the area? >> well, in this area, and i'm speaking about plaquemines parish, many of them said they expected them to be bad but not this bad. overnight there was -- and as i step out of the way, there's even, you know, more national guard troops are showing up. the residents have been telling us that it came on very quickly. the floodwaters just...

Not, so that's what we're doing now. megyn: how many people are on scene? >> i don't have the dimensions of the well, but clearly it's very deep. the fire department is helping us out right now, and i just saw a water department truck pull up and some power companies, so it looks like we might be trying to drain it, but that's a guess right now on my part. megyn: are these emergency operators in danger as they do this? >> well, i mean, obviously, it's risky for the firemen to, you know, be lowered down there by lopes and things like -- ropes and things line that, but i think they've abandoned ...

i'm t.j. holmes bringing you the latest on the massive storm. hurricane irene that could affect about 20% of the population of the united states. here you are getting a look at the path of the storm. the projected path of the storm right now. some 65 million people are being threatened by this storm. it's in some of the largest cities of the country that are under threat of the storm. we are talking about new york, washington d.c., baltimore, boston, philadelphia. all areas not accustomed, necessarily, to being ready for hurricanes. hurricane irene is now a category one storm. it is ...

Completely inaccessible. we are think to our friends at the air marine operations for border protection to take us up so we can see this because the water is still very high here. it is like this for much of the terrain. things from the air look better closer to houston right now. out here, we don't see a lot of people from the air. we don't see many emergency operators, we don't see many residents because a lot of water still up to at least the threshold of a lot of houses. you can see the high watermarks on some of the single-story homes is up much, much higher. i want to cfl can point the c...