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The other a u.s. postal service van and that is because we are now being told this suspect one suspect, was the one who stole hijacked that u.s. postal service van and driver postal service worker that have van according to the police is, quote, assumed to be one of the victims but we do not know that for sure jerry moralez is the mayor and he joins us now with a little bit more on this. any blanks you can fill in mr. mayor from where you sit in the information you've been given? >> no, apparently everything i heard you mentioned sounds like is the information that we have at this time. you kn...

Bus, it says right in the second paragraph, you must assume the position of a warrior. you have to go in as quickly as possible without hesitation, but being tactically soubd without any regard to your own safety, and that's exactly what these officers did. these men are heroes. you know, going up against an assault rifle, luckily it sounded like there was a couple swat team members there that probably also had assault rifles, but assault rifles are made for one thing, and that's to take down a human being and try to create as much tissue damage within the body as they can. if he is using an a...

Are you finding people trapped? are rescuers finding more casualties? >> i expect the fatality count to come up today and tomorrow as well as we get through the debris. hopefully it doesn't rise dramatically but it's a possibility from where we are, unfortunately. today we will concentrate on people as well, so we are moving our disaster assistance survivor teams into areas and will concentrate on those stuck in shelters right now. the president proactively approved governor scott's major disaster expedited request yesterday, and so there are five counties eligible, and that will grow, but you...

Rebuild do it right is all i am asking. the bottom line is when we ask people to evacuate, and we clearly asked people to evacuate and the governor asked people and we used the wireless emergency alert system to warn people the ocean was going to rise and do this type of destruction, people still failed to heed the warnings and lost their lives. i expect the fatality count to climb today and tomorrow as we get through the debris, and i am very frustrated by that. we seem to not learn this lesson in this country, and, you know, these guys behind us, they get to deal with the aftermath, and they...

Shely. also one of the kind of good things is we had days and days of lead up for people to get out and prepare. that's one of the reasons why the fatality count has been relatively low for some of these storms. here is where it came on shore, 24 hours ago. there it is right now. it's moved about 110 miles is all in this entire time. probably modify about that same over the next 124 hours. you get the idea dr. w. this very heavy rain still coming on shore. some spots are pushing about 25 inches of rain now. anything over 24 will break the record from anything they have seen from the storm at a...