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days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state of vermont. floodwaters were still cresting there late last nigh...

this is prattsville in the cat skill mountains. officials say the volume of water rushing through the riverbanks is more than what's flowing over niagara falls today. just think about that. it stranded people in their homes and hotels. no way for rescuers to get to them. next, i want to share video from rhode island. 300,000 people there in the dark. no electricity. several of these, you can see them downed trees, just sheer wind power took them down. half the state is affected here. listen now as rhode island's governor is speaking a short time ago. >> really what we're focusing on ...

Storm should be? >> chad? >> clyde. >> oh, clyde! this is headed maybe here. >> here are all the models. here's the east coast of the u.s. here's bermuda right there. we call this the gutter ball. we like gutter balls. they can do whatever they want. you get good waves along the east coast, surfers are happy. all the people in bermuda are happy -- >> all these things are pointing to this, nobody's worried about that? >> not yet because the big high pressure that sits here is for a while pushing it this way. and as the high slides out to the east, that wind changes directions to this and so the...

The onshore flow is making storm surge on that northern island, northern coast, and also, there are a couple mountain ranges through here, likely causing an awful lot of flooding, flash flooding going on, flash flood warnings throughout most of puerto rico, throughout the morning hours. and we talk about the power that's out in puerto rico. you think how can it possibly take four to six months to put the power lines back up? well, you can't take bucket trucks from georgia, put them on the interstate, and send them to puerto rico. what you have is what you have. so the normal bucket truck briga...

Agreeing that this is a gutter ball. what we call a storm between bermuda and the u.s. we knew it would take some time to figure out whether it would hit the u.s. or go to the right. so far everything now down the middle. maybe it will be a strike right through the middle of the bermuda chain and also for the u.s. that will be absolutely perfect. so what are we dealing with right now in puerto rico? well, it has been raining so very much. some spots could have picked up 30 inches of rainfall from the storm. puerto rico has a flash flood warning for the entire island. not just for one county, t...