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fairfax county last night and a list of road closures four pages long. at least one community, huntington, is assessing the damage from flood waters that forced many from their homes last night. >> sherri ly is live in huntington with an update. >> reporter: good morning. the cleanup here for some people has already begun. we saw a man a short time ago hosing his driveway. but the rain has started to come down again. it's why firefighters and the swift water rescue teams are standing by in case they have any additional flooding. this area really is flood prone. five years ago the sam...

she knew who it was like to live in washington during the years that i was writing about. her husband is a historian. i hope he's been a national book fest writer. >> jay winnick. >> he wrote about the last month of the civil war. george read it early on in his presidency. we both were very found of it. the other one, is called "the great upheaval." it's a great history of who was going on in the united states during that period. because we think of our founding in a vacuum. we don't really know. did you know that katherine was czar of russia when the united states was founded. i thi...

as i give you, i'm afraid at one level that i don't know. but it's quite clear from the documents that it wasn't something that the service was asked to investigate by it's customer departments. there was certainly information coming through that terrible things were happening. and, you know, there was persecution. but the absolute, the true nature and scale of the catastrophe were just not apparent and even the hints of it were just not believed. i'm sorry, that's the answer. >> i think -- >> i would add maybe an explanation for this. the service, even in the war, was quite small. i...

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