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dark from hurricane irene. >> and if you are a special needs customer, don't expect any special treatment. andrea mccarren has the story only on 9 from a neighborhood with downed trees and power lines and still in the dark. >> reporter: pg and e told us it cannot prioritize special needs customers because they're located all across the service area. a spokeswoman told us the utility has to focus on the areas with the most customers first. somewhere. >> just infur rating. >> reporter: valley is streamed. >> you're talking about somebody's life and my mother's life means a lot to me. a...

virginia early this morning. the latest rumble came after 5:00 a.m., four miles from mineral, the epicenter of last week's 5. quake that shook the east coast. news4's shomari stone joins us live. >> reporter: we're in mineral and a lot of residents and business owners felt the aftershocks this morning. they had flash backs about last week's quake. we're here at the high school and a lot of teachers and students have been volunteering today, taking furniture like this, and moving it across the parking lot to the middle school. that's where they're going to start classes in a couple we...

his neck putting out a fire. when doctors did a scan, they saw a bigger problem. >> we found two nodules on your thyroid. i found out that it was cancer. >> reporter: he is not alone. a new study in the journal looked at nearly 10,000 new york city firefighters in nearly nine years after 9/11. it found those who worked at santa rosa were 19% -- ground zero were 19% to have cancer. >> when i started the study i did not think it would be, not at seven years. but that increase is real. >> reporter: first responders at ground zero were exposed to many chemicals that are known to cause ca...

to us from their home in sterling, virginia. >> i'm his mom. i was worried about him every day. >> doug was just an outstanding human being. >> he was my hero. >>. >> reporter: a child of northern virginia, doug green was a graduate of louden county potomac falls high school, a communication specialist with an army infantry unit, an iraq war veteran killed by an ied in afghanistan sunday. >> this was sudden. we weren't ready for this. in two months, he would have been done with his tour. >> he was way too young, 23. >> i think i'm still really numb to it. i don't think it's going to ...

moment, but now we see it around 8:00 passing just to the east of norfolk, virginia beach and hampton roads with that worst part of the storm north and east of the center out to sea with winds of 85 miles an hour, so a little weaker there. just off the coast of ocean city as it continues up the coast into new york still as a category 1. that's a little different because we thought that might be a tropical storm at the last update, maybe a little stronger going into the western portions of long island. that is the very latest track. we know that will definitely have a big impact here ...