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who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we're hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn't get away. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnn's amber lyon joins us from brattleboro in vermont. set the scene a little bit, amber, for what's g...

i'm ali velshi, one of irene's last stops dealt one of its hardest blows. parts of vermont completely unreachable as rivers start to roar. one official describing the aftermath as awful. >> cut off in carolina. i'm carol costello. thousands who ignored evacuation orders stranded on the outer banks. emergency supplies heading there by ferry today on this "american morning." good morning. it is monday, august 29th. you lose track of it on these type of weekends when so much happens. there is a lot going on for a lot of people who say we missed -- we dodged the bull letsz, a lot of pe...

island in new york. >> on long island irene's storm surge flooded downtown long beach. some streets in manhattan also flooding but the water started to recede and new york's evacuation order is being lifted this hour. in its sweep up the coast irene has killed 15 people across six states. more than 4 million people overall without power and these amazing pictures show some of the damage when irene made landfall as a hurricane. for place like new york city, the storm wasn't as bad as many feared but as janet napolitano said earlier today, it's not over yet. >> no matter where you are ...

>> right. this is really in terms of flooding a 100-year flood, and we have those warnings from the mouth of the mississippi all the way on up into where the mississippi meets up with the ohio river. we're talking a lot of rainfall, but especially tend of april. so far this year we've had twice the amount of rain in some ever these locations like in pa cue d -- paducah, kentucky. of course, major flood stage, mississippi at memphis, we're now at 47.82, and, of course, 48 is what we're expecting to see as we head into tuesday. so this could end up being an all-time record, that all-time record ...

Negligent homicide after police found his decomposed body of his mother. they were looking for her to do a welfair check. he locked her in the room and never reported her death. >> just like the movie. >> and meanwhile, let's go ahead and switch around and take a look at what is going on in the weather. >> take a look at this. rescue crews in little falls, new jersey, pictured here. martha is from this neck of the woods in northern new jersey. they have had historic flooding out there and it continues. thankfully the rivers crest they are starting to recede. none theless. so much damage. >> lo...