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>> earlier this morning we had 32,000 homes without power. at 5:00 a.m. reason i found out 28,000 who had evacuations, 211 of those vanquished honored happened. we are continuing to get request for things and we will continue to make sure they get the help they need. reporter: back in tuscaloosa, mourning the loss of a champion swim team member. seeking shelter in the basement of a local home during the tomato when a retaining wall collapsed on him. he was named to the sec academic honor roll. also other stories of survival and help. many of the people and the cruise have come from maryland an...

Reforms must also address the issue of undocumented labor currently in american agriculture as well as reform of the broken h2a visa program to ensure farmers have legal means to hire workers for planting and harvesting when local workers cannot be found. >> it seems like the local restaurant hotels, construction, were all find fighting over the same labor pool which is getting smaller. >> reporter: perhaps no sector of the farming industry has more at stake than strawberries. a spokesman for the california strawberry commission says there are few mechanical options for picking strawberries. s...

Could go up. george's family farm in morgan hill grows garlic, beans and peppers among other crops but as recently as last year the farm couldn't find enough labor and had to leave about $400,000 worth of garlic in the ground. >> it's harder every year. we are having trouble to find people willing and able to pick the crops. >> reporter: the labor shortage is a concern for farmers around the nation. he says the problem began about five years ago and is now threatening the very existence of some farms. >> what we're doing is we're growing more down out of mexico and less locally. it's really a ...

Loose and when you have flash flooding and torrential downpours, three inches of rain, yesterday alone, not as much as the 7 inches originally predicted in some areas but the water, mud, boulders, debris just comes sliding down those hillsides into homes and this is the concern and why people are out of their homes and the sandbags are still out, though the good news which we talk about is the rain is supposed to let up, a little bit later today. and the weekend looks like it may be dry and we could eventually dry out. bill: let's hope so, five straight days of that stuff makes it nasty and de...

We have live pictures for you. the plane was met by a number of police cars and fire trucks as you can see on the tarmac in philly. the aircraft is isolated from everything else right now. they used the word quarantine about the way they're protecting this plane in a remote corner thaf runway. we're going to get a live report to you as soon as we get more information on the scene very shortly. bill: that's happening right now and also in southern california, bracing for a fourth day of heavy rain and in that part of america, it means flash flooding and possible mudslides are almost a reality. ...