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Without power in the mid-atlantic after a storm packing powerful winds tore through the area on friday. residents have spent two days sweltering in 100 degree heat. and the polls have closed in mexico where voters are deciding on a new president and congress. exit polls show a party that dominated for seven decades will grab power again. now back to "inside the box." camden, arkansas. august 2006. >> okay. you know i didn't do it. so hwho did it? >> thomas cogdell begins talking to himself. alone in an interrogation room. after police tell him he's responsible for the murder of his 11-year...

>> all right. first, though, big news today. the trial of the accused underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. >> the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnn's deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? >> reporter: well, ali, christine and carol, we can tell you that he is facing eight charges today. i...

welcome to "american morning." >> good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, ali, we've heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that paperwork and start the procedures to free them. he expects they will be free with the half hour. also...

i'm carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is -- it's wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to "american morning." feels like it's halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. >> we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. >> right. >> did you feel it? >> christine and i were together working. i thought it was a little vertigo. i said, is that the subway? and we were ...

First a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i've seen in a long time. >> that's the important part. nobody got hurt. houses can be rebuilt, people takes a long time for them to get rebui...