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good morning to you. it is thursday, september 1st. can you believe it? this is your a.m. "wake-up call." this is carol costello joining you live from new york. it's a big day. the president's big speech on economy will be a week from tonight. he wanted to speak a day earlier but house speaker john boehner said there wouldn't be enough time to do a security sweep of the house chamber. others complained it was on the very night of the republican presidential debate. he could go head to head with drew breesz and aaron rofrmgers. the nfl opener is that night. they talked about what a bi...

trapped by floodwaters. irene with its punishing wind and rain turned some communities into islands, cut off from civilization. the national guard has been dropping supplies by helicopter. at one point you couldn't get into or out of 13 towns. authorities hope all of them will be accessible soon. mark liebowitz went to vermont to get married. now he and his guests are trapped. >> we're in need of medical supplies. we have food and we have drinkable water. all the water is run on electric pumps and there's no power. >> flooding in new jersey has forced more than 1300 people into shelt...

worth has destroyed about 30 homes already. it threatens many more. this is so big, the fire is so big and intense that firefighters haven't been able to contain any of that. right now crews are getting people out of its way and trying to protect the homes still standing. the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres. air tankers are expected to drop water on the fire today. it is unclear how this fire started, but the epic drought and the heat may have made this the worst fire season in texas history. oklahoma is suffering, too. a fire near oklahoma city has forced people within a two squa...

200,000 in their communities. intense flooding wrecked the town of pratsville in the new york skill mountains. it took crews four trips and a helicopter to get a man out. a reporter told cnn that she can't get out of prattsville now. >> we'll give you an idea of the flooding so you understand why we were trapped here. if you can follow me over here. can you see where the creek is right now? imagine where i'm standing, that creek flooded to this point and actually a mile out of town even more. so definitely this is flooding that no one has ever seen here before. and yes, all the other...

days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state of vermont. floodwaters were still cresting there late last nigh...