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Is. 15 minutes after the hour. president obama is giving the green light to spend federal disaster funds for relief in nashville and surrounding counties today as swollen rivers and creeks begin to recede. officials are also trying to pump water out of some of the biggest landmarks like the grand ole opry. but shutting down electricity making that process difficult. martin savidge is live in nashville for us. give us the lay of the land or the water where you are now. >> reporter: good morning, john. now that the sun has come up we decided to give you a better view of the cumberland river he...

Debris. that's always a huge concern, particularly when it gets dark out. but even in this, there's low visibility with this wind. even little pieces of dirt, little pieces of sediment, sand, really feel like pinpricks as they hit you. you also hear these strange sounds. you have to keep looking around to make sure that there's nothing coming loose. we have seen some of the lamp posts here break apart earlier in the overnight hours. so that's obviously something we're going to be watching for. we're going to take another short break. we have our kraunlts, again, all throughout the region. we'r...

Streets of moscow. the biggest protest there since the fall of the soviet union. >> people were hanging off lamp posts. people were in the streets. really shocking. >> reporter: putin was now living the same nightmare he had endured as a kgb officer in east germany in 1989. this time, in his own backyard. and he wasn't even president at the time. he was prime minister, having handed the presidency over to his associate, dmitry medvedev. >> as the winter went longer and longer and got colder and colder, the protests got bigger and bigger. >> reporter: as putin saw people turning against him, hi...

Because all of us around here, this is glass i'm stepping on right here. so again it's such a volatile situation because you have all this debris, lamp posts, these ba big palm trees. if people start walking around, which are authorities are themming ththem i telling them not to do, it can prove deadly. i've been reporting from the beach since 5:00 in the morning today. i think this is our last live shot from the beach right now. we're looking downtown and also update you on the situation with those cranes going on downtown. the situation on the beach, it just kept deteriorating. we moved to t...

They're going to have none of that this time around. he says he wants a team atmosphere. he wants people to work together. once a decision is made that's the final decision and they're all going to work on it together. there were meetings as late as 7:30 last night. they're back again this morning. a new tone for dealing with the media. a clinton aide came around today and handed out coffee and donuts to the press that have been staking out here. the republican national committee had staffers here. and there's art hung up on lamp posts around here as well. clinton staff up on the 11th floor wa...