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Welcome back. wind and rain blowing over hong kong's iconic star. a rainy day here in hong kong. i'm ivan watson for "cnn newsroom." let's move over to western mexico now. where a raging gun battle lasted three hours and left dozens dead. more than 40 people were killed in fighting. more than 40 people killed there in fighting between security forces and suspected members of a powerful drug cartel. most of those killed were suspected members of the new generation cartel. at least one federal police officer among the dead. officials say the violence erupted during an operation at a ranch just o...

>> harris: it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. severe thunderstorms ripping through the midwest yesterday. one person killed near detroit when a tree fell on a car. in chicago, 70 mile-per-hour winds and rain blowing out windows in the former sears tower and flooding wrigley field. >> gregg: security remains a major concern in afghanistan. a report by the united nations shows that insurgent violence rising sharply over the last three months. >> harris: bp's ceo tony hayward taking some time off from the gulf oil spill, racing his yacht. they call it bob in england. the ...

>> all right. >> of course, the story we were just talking about with nancy and peicabo street, lindsey von, you heard picabo said she expects the big superstar, lindsey vonn, to participate in all of her events. that's good news. >> that's great news, mika. of course that would certainly help get the olympics started right for the united states. of course that, and it would probably be good if they had weather more fitting of a winter olympics than like a british open. 42 degrees and rain blowing sideways. this is british open weather! >> yes. willie still looks cute in his parka. >> his cana...

Conditions? >> reporter: i can hardly hear you, because once again even as the storm is moving away from cuba towards florida. it has just picked up in an incredible way, 14showing you t immense power of irma. we could hardly stand. we're seeing roofs torn off. and you look at it this way, this is the storm going out to sea. it really is incredible here. because it's just waves and waves of wind and rain blowing incorrectly hard. and just to give you some sense of what people here have been suffering from for the last eight to ten hours. this storm came in here as a category 5. they don't get ...

That's where president obama signed a declaration of emergency as well. >> another 3,000 are ready to stand standing by. >> destructive flooding in florida. that's another hour plus to go. states governor is warning president, do take this storm seriously >> our number one priority is protecting every life in the state. i think about my grandchildren and daughters and wife, i want everybody to survive this. we can rebuild homes and businesses, i just think of my own family, we cannot rebuild a life. shelby danielson is standing by for us. what is it like out there but i can see from myself tha...