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welcome back to the newsroom where the news unfold live this saturday, august 27th. i'm fredricka whitfield. we continue to watch hurricane irene and all that it is doing and wreaking havoc along the east coast. right now, live coverage from our affiliate out of norfolk, virginia, wavy, wayv vy as it i referred to. sure talking about a child that might be trapped. let's listen in. >> two people and their cat rescued after their boat was anchored and they got caught in some vicious water trying to escape hurricane irene. we understand they are okay. we also have many road closings. th...

fine. >> then after north carolina, irene could hit new york and new england late this weekend. keep watching for latest turns in the hurricane's track. right now, a firefight is under way outside a cluster of buildings in tripoli. libyan rebels believe they have moammar gadhafi pinned down. they believe he is hiding in apartments in his compound. rebels have put $1.5 million bounty on gadhafi. he is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. moammar gadhafi's son, wants a cease-fire to stop the bloodshed in tripoli. saadi contacted nic robertson by e-mail. ...

Population. that 2,000 structures is not a surprise to us at all. >> six-mile long path, this storm carved out. tell us a little bit about what you're seeing in the dark on the ground from your vantage point? >> it's very difficult in the dark, but it seems like everywhere you go there's destruction, buildings are down, trees down, homes are down, businesses have been crushed. canopies have been thrown to the side. rvs have been tossed into another house. roofs have been taken off. it's quite amazing. >> how are you guys coordinating any type of, first of all, the search and rescue, but second...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> that's right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. >> to make matters worse the city's main hospital st. john's medical cent...

Graduate student, you were a graduate student and you wanted to do something. what did you do? >> the day after the storm, we heard they were collecting volunteers at a church on the erend of town and we spent an hour-and-a-half in traffic. we couldn't make it there, so we said forget it and we drove down to the neighborhood. just got all the tools we could get and have been walking around. and just dragging stuff to the curb. >> traffic has been a mess throughout the city, as you imagine. power lines down, trees down. people trying to get in and help, rescue workers, all of it, it has created...