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that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs can't. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and illinois, hundreds of miles away. amber lyon is in the town of wilmington. do the folks you met bel...

the sea walls, but i think the worst here is orr and it passed. amazing how well they've weathered this here. we have not seen any damage. just a quick ride through downtown nassau, and it seems that they've got lucky and their preparations really worked. some of the southern islands in the bahamas didn't make it well. we have reports of serious did he have tags in some of the settlements down there and even some of the biggest islands, cat island that are both popular tourist islands had just gotten hit there. still trying to get communications back up to get word and a look at dama...

As for thunderstorms today, not too shabby overall, a cluster of thunderstorms, not too widespread but enough to cause problems in the northeast. newark has delays of about 15 minutes and there you can see 30-minute delays. out west we continue to track flooding across the four corners region, and winds staying pretty calm for those fires, randi, that are burning out in california but the temperatures remain warm in the low to mid-90s. randi? >> it is hot. no doubt about that. thank you so much. police have captured one of three killers from an arizona state prison. daniel renwick was caught...

Ruptured well? is the static kill still on track for this week? >> the static kill is still on track. there was a little bit of a hiccup with this process. they were hoping to get that started later today or perhaps tomorrow, but there was a little bit of debris that got inside one of the relief wells. you'll remember last week red remnants of tropical storm bonnie this passed over the area. that's got to be cleaned out today. they're going to lower a casing, which is basically a hollow tube, inside the relief well, and then they go into the static mode. very quickly, what that's going to invo...

Regarding this. we're not sure of the long-term effects, what it might mean to the ecology of the gulf of mexico. i can tell you this, though, the statement of the epa raeds they believe the dispersant would have mitigatigated them from do more damage to the beaches and the economy overall on the gulf coast. ran randi? >> we understand the ceo of bp is there. what's his plan today? >> he wants to see things up close and personal. one of the dig things was to define some of that oil. where it was so easy to find a few weeks, a month ago, it's difficult to find. he wi he will see firsthand where...