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23.5 million votes. you see mr. rouhani there. this video taken earlier. again, he wins the election in iran. time to talk about weather. major flooding has taken a southern indiana city, forced water rescues, causing millions of dollars in damage. power out in many places. eric van dam has more. >> talking washington county in southern sections of indiana, population of about 6500 people. salem the name of the town. we have footage to show you what they had to deal with late friday and into the overnight hours. you can see how deep the water actually was. they declared a state of emergency ...

Snow is headed next. meteorologist, eric van dam, has the latest from the cnn weather center. >> we just came across a stat na authorities responded to over 500 accidents in the state of virginia. 650 abandoned vehicles because of the winter storm that moved to the region. can you imagine just driving through some of these treacherous roadways, almost impossible. we have blowing and drifting of snow. you have dangerous conditions and unfortunately the bad roadways have led to two fatalities from this east coast winter storm that moved through. there was another weather-related fatality on the ...

Evacuated from a vacation at the south pole because doctors say he was dangerously ill. he's in a hospital in new zealand. he apparently has fluonid his lungs. doctors say he wasn't responding well to antibiotics. it's a physically-demanding trip. you have to climatize before climbing around. you can walk around the whole earth in a few steps. hopefully he can recover and go back. a blast of cold air and snow for parts of the northeast this weekend. let's bring in eric van dam. >> this is what you get when you have cold arctic blast of air overriding some of the relatively warm waters of lak...

Promise is trying hard to close the place. >> reporter: so far this year, 17 detainees have been transferred out of the facility. 112 detainees remain at guantanamo bay. many have been okayed to go home, it's just not clear when. >> with we want to return to breaking news out of egypt with a russian bound commercial jet carrying 224 people crashed in the central sinai. eric van dam is following this and joins us in the weather center with more details. what have you learned? >> obviously, information is sparse out of the region at the moment. we'll be sure to pass along what we have including ...

Which is an important milestone. i just love mother nature at its finest, with the baby calf enjoying that first home. atika, the best part about this, this birth took place on mother's day. >> that is a very good thing. yeah. >> thank you so much, eric van dam for us at the international weather center. well, in asia now, a dire station, thousands of migrants trapped at sea with no place to land and suffering from dehydration and hunger. we'll have the latest on what's happening in southeast asia, coming up next.