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Down. there may be a foot and a half or two feet of freetboard above what the levee is. so you still have all of this tremendous pressure. i'm also a certified scuba diving instruction. you're talking about 30, 40 feet worth of water. there are double atmospheres, atmospheres of pressure pushing down from the top of the water to the bottom of the water and the water is trying to push itself under the levees because really all they are, in spots, they're walls, of course, and that could be concrete, but in many spots, they're just hills of dirt, and the hills of dirt are not perfect. they have ...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don't know if it's going to hold even with this. they're being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you can't take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he'll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this...

Tuscaloosa thought it was going to happen. i don't think that it's something that both 'bama fans would do. i think we're all surprised that that actually did happen. we're keeping the trees and his family, the auburn family, in our prayers right now. >> the plan today is what? you're expecting a lot of people to come out there and show their love and support for the trees? >> well, hopefully from noon to 3:00 central standard time we're going to come out here and just hug each other, essentially. we started out saying that we were going to hug the tree and we realized that actually the root s...

Reynolds is here, he's a man who knows how to rock a vest. he's been in the field on the gulf coast, but he's back with us now. washington, d.c., power outages, storms, even the white house affected? >> the place got jackhammered by strong storms. most of those moving out into the atlantic. you'll see an area south of washington, d.c. shaded in a yellow box where you have your severe weather possible. in fact that's a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 6:00 p.m. local time. let's show you some of the tree damage, just really extensive in maryland we're seeing first. much of it has just ...

Do we have those pictures? >> we do. >> gaithersburg, right? >> yeah. >> that's montgomery county? >> absolutely. >> maryland. and a thunderstorm, a series of thunderstorms? >> a long line of thunderstorms came straight-line winds. causing all kinds of damage. and there are the pictures that viewers are seeing. and just widespread damage. when you have the tall trees, very shallow root systems, when they get knocked over, they tend to fall over streets. they've fall noon buildings, like this. and they also knock over power lines. thousands are without power at this time, it may be days before ...