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>> first up, the u.s. military, federal and local rescue crews are on the ground in colorado. not in the air where they want to be. stormy weather is putting their flights on hold. and that's extremely up setting. to the hundreds of people trapped by raging flood waters. here's a look at some of the rescues carried out. a national guard chinook he helicopter helped people stranded in the field. a group included a pay by and children who were on an overnight school trip. sadly, not everyone escaped in time. an 80-year-old is believe today be the sixth person killed due to flooding.

many of those people may be saved. the disaster is being described as a one in a thousand year event. >> i felt a lot of real energy. i know exactly inch by inch, mile by mile, community by community. they're taking this stuff bad. they're doing it. >> entire towns are complete lid cut off by flood water. so destructive that they eve wiped out mountainsides, homes and miles of roads. he also signed a major disaster declaration for the state freeing up federal rekov ray aid.

george howell is live for us now. george, bad weather was keeping a lot of those rescue flights grounded. what's the situation now? >> we're in the same situation right now. you see the water, the streams, the waters are starting to overrule flow again. you can look closely over there. you see the debris in that water? that's the problem about this tiepd of flood walter. you've got rocks in there, tree branchs, all of the things noo would make it easy to cross. three hours aid go, tlfgs no water on this road. during the last live shot, we saw this turn into a pretty ripping stream. and now, there's no crossing this. in fact, we know of some people wlor on the other side there: i'm told that they do have a way to get over here, upstream.

but their time is limited to do so. you have people waiting to get rescued. keep in mind hurricane katrina. it's a big operation. right now, it's temporarily halted until the weather passes. but i spoke to them about what it takes to get an operation like that underway. let's listen. >> the reason that we are able to do it is that we have prepared for this through different training scenarios and, also, through different exercises that we've had over the last couple years. this isn't something that we can just show up and be ready to do. this is years and years of training and doing the exercises so that we're ready when

something like this does happen. >> looking at this watt other here, it's called four mile creek. it's not a creek right now. it is a river. there's no crossing it. when you consider the debris in there, it's dangerous for any car driving over standing water. that's another thing. officials want us to get that word out. if you see standing water, it could be really risky. really dangerous. but, again, fredericka, we're seeing these communities cut off again. >> all right, george howell, thank you for bring that to us. joining us now on the phone, andy barth. this is going to be a very huge recovery effort.

but, first, you've got to get to a lot of people yet to be rescued. how do you do that now? >> right now, we're doing that basically, strictly through roadwayings. we have opened that up and try to continue to ohm up! in what way? >> so we've got heavy equipment that continue to move up through the mountainous areas of colorado. just trieriying to open up any s of debris as you know, all of that debris washed it downhill towards the bolder itself. >> what are the greatest challenges for you right now? >> well, the greatest challenges, it's really getting to the people that need help and not having the equipment. this disaster is so widespread.

we can only dedicate equipment to certain areas and then wech to move on as fast as we can. big challenges are the rain kwe keeps congresswomaning. coming. it just exacerbates the problem. >> what are the areas you want to get to but sitsimply can't right now? >> there's no way to get from the plains up to the western side of the county. >> andrew barth, we'm keep you poeszed. all the best to you. so here's a look at what is ho hoeding to the colorado area tonight and form night. more rain expected until monday night. and then it starts to let up. and, by tuesday, the storm is expected to move its wade out.

thankfully, the rest of the week just might be clear. but folks there still have to make flu the rain form. . >> meantime, let's talk about new york. two women, bystanders, getting shot by a bystander. margaret. how did all of this happen in the first place? >> fredericka, it was an intense scene saturday night right near the heart of times square.

police fired three shots. they missed their target and hit twro women, instead. a man that was walking around, he looked confused. >> he continued to reach into his pocket, took out his hand and simulated as if he was shooting at them. >> now, that is the key here. the man pretended to shoot at them. they actuallily say he similar lated shooting at them. >> and, so, now we're looking at some other images that came in. we can see that police officers there kind of at the center

piece holding up their weapons. >> we do know that the police are saying a string of charges. the charges that the police have against him right now, drug possession and, also, disorderly conduct. >> all right, a very strange situation there taking place in times square. margaret cononly from new york. they'll give their report to the u.n. tomorrow.

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that lays down steps to eliminate those weapons. >> keep in mind that my entire goal, throughout this exercise, is to make sure that what happened on august 21st does not happen again. that we do not see over a thousand people that are subjected to poison gas. something that is a violation of international law and is a vie ration of decency. >> why won't it happen again? >> well, i think we have the possibility of making sure it doesn't happen again. >> i'm joined now by cnn analyst and former weapons inspector in iraq, david kaye. so what's your take on this agreement between the u.s. and russia to get rid of serious chemical weapons. can syria produce an inventory in a week's time? >> certainly. it can produce an inventory. whether it will is really one of the first tests of this agreement. look, this agreement provides a path ahead. it's an extraordinarily

difficult path and, in some ways, a dangerous path for the inspectors to be on site. it provides multiple opportunities, four of which were this week to trust whether the russians and the syrians were really serious about this. >> and you say a dangerous path because you're talking about inspectors on the ground with this civil war is on going. >> well, that's part of it. realize, they're there to inspect chemical weapons. they're obviously going to be linkers. it's a very hazard ousz environment. ef p if it were not a civil war. you have to remember, it's a different kind of civil war. it's not two sides against each other. the opposition is multiple, some of whom would like to dpet their hands on chemical weapons.

i think it will be detailed as to what they carried out with the inspection. i do not expect that they will point fingers and say it came from the syrian government. but i think any fair reading containing high grade sarin, not something in your basement, and that all points to the government. >> so who dismake that determination? who would have made the orders to choose them? >> well, the weapons, the determination of who used them is not something the inspector is going to be involved in. i think the u.s. and the russians agreed, priority task is to get control of the weapons and get rid of them. this is a crime against humanity as to how you judge and who you hold responsible for this.

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joe johns is in washington. joe, how serious a threat is the government shutdown? >> well, fred, the optimists say the most likely solution is for the congress and the president to agree on some type of short term solution, temporary fixes, temporary spending bills that kind of kick the can down the road. if that happens, it was just set up another day for another impasse with a deadline, which is just about where we are today. >> in grournd hog day, weatherman bill murray lives the same day over and over. capitol hill is starting to look like that now as congress heads towards what could be another train wreck. it's all about looming deadlines. check out the calendar. september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. congress has to pass a money bill to keep the government operating or it will shut down. democrats promise to fight republican budget hawks. >> this is nasty.

it has tentacles that affect in the negative way many aspectings of american life. >> on top of that, a key part of the president's health plan cut off money needed to make it happen. >> we'll continue to do everything we can to repeal, dismantle and defund obama care. >> and as soon as october 18th, treasury secretary jack lou says the government will run out of money to pay its bills, unless congress raises the debt ceiling. tea party republicans threaten another fight. but the president says he won't negotiate. >> it's really remarkable, the con influence of events that we're seeing here is almost unimaginable. >> we asked senior political an lisz ron brownstein about this witching hour. >> how bad is this? >> i think we're facing an extraordinary few weeks where no one really has a clear idea of

houf to navigate through the mine field of a potential government shutdown and then a potential default on the debt. we're really saying the same issues that have divided president obama and the republican house since january of 2011 coming back, yet, again, almost in this kind of circular loop. >> now, what makes this a little unusual is the fact that democrats control both the senate and the white house, making it emt treemly unlikely that they would give much ground on the president's signature domestic connell flikts. some say it's more of a symbolic fight. what's really become a rallying cry on the right to reduce government spending and defund obama care, fred. >> joe johns, thanks so much from washington. the national guard grounds all rescue helicopters in colorado. but hundreds of people are still trapped in their homes. i'll get the ratest on res kud efforts from one local sheriff's office right after the break. with the spark miles card from capital one,

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>> right now, all national guard air rescue helicopters are on hold because of the stormywet ere. we're getting the latest from the republican officer, john schult. john, give us the latest on what you're able to do to help reach the people in need, especially since you can't have any kind of air assets in the air. >> well, that's right. the good news is that we've been allocated 16 helicopters today which have been absolutely great. but the bad news is the wealther prevents them from flying. so there iswork they can do on the ground, however, to prepare for that for their flights and stuff. which is what's going on. and the national guard is i valuating the conditions on an hour-by-hour basis hopefully to get some of those up. we are trying to put some people

in by ground, in areas where the roads have been washed out. for the most part, people who could be reached by a road have been taken out already. >> it sounds like a giant problem. we understand that 30 bridges have been damaged or washed out completely. it certainly sounds like getting around is going to be a giant challenge to get to people. we have virtually hundreds of miles of roads that are flooding. it's a tremendousous lid challenging problem. we have 00 drepds of people that are stranded in different pockets around the county, from north to south in dishlt areas that the only way we're going to

be able to get them evacuated is via air. >> has working on any other natural disaster in any way prepared you for this? >> no, absolutely not. this is -- i know many people have been calling this epic proportions here. it's certainly unlike anything anybody has seen here. i think we've had our share with the high park fire. this is literally from the very northern part all the way to the southern part. so it's just an overwhelming need that's there that has to be addressed. john schultz, thanks so much for your time. all the best as you try to come to the aid of so many there. >> coming up, i'm talking to the couple who lives in this house

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many of the flooding victims of colorado didn't live near creeks or rivers. that didn't spare them from an incredible amount of destruction. this is what tim and kerry woke up to at 3:00 in the morning only thursday. a river of flood water flowing right outside their door in boulder. and the engaged couple says they were shocked because they don't live near any major water ways. that i're squoining me now on the phones. tim, let me begin with you. what did you and kerly do when you saw this scene outside the house? did it wake you up at 3:00 in the morning and that's why you saw it at that hour? >> yeah, ablg chully,we heard like john winter rivers outside our door. >> actually, i just ran to the window and i could see stlfgs a river running right outside the

window. thank goodness the neighbor yelled don't oech your door, don't open your door because we had walter about 18 inches up the door. >> susan, what did you do? well, we just barricaded the door and then surveyed the scene. we worked on damming the water to try to work it all the way out. we thought we could wait it out until about 10:00 in the morning. >> so you weren't getting very worried. what were your greatest concerns? what kind of were you picturing in your mind as the potential of

what could happen? >> we started to wonder if it would get so bad that we wouldn't be able to get out in the near future. e look i looked up the street and saw waterer just pouring over the top. it looked like it was about to break. so i realized that we would have the wall of waterer going to rush toward us. i wasn't sure if it was going to get worse. >> was it an issue of let's grab all of our really important things? did you get in the car and then, you know, drive off? or how did you get away? >> our neighbor had called a friend to come get her. and he showed up and helped her

out and came to get me and was passing things out the window. i grabbed our birth certificate and a couple of stuffed animals from our childhood. that was it. just us and a couple of sweet things. >>. >> have you heard anything about what might be left? what damage was caused? >> we have been back on saturday. there was a clean-up process and a lot of the water has subsided. our main street hat been completely washed out. that street is completely gone. there's about a 4-5 foot chasm that's just been washed away.

and all of the cars parked along that street have been stranded. wi're able to keep most of the water out by barricading doors. carpets are wet and muddy. they're just a mess. there's a good 8-10 sediment that's washed in the yard. >> my goodness, what an incredible adventure you all have had over the course of a few days. i'm glad that you could be with us and that yul're okay and you eve got your dog with you, as well. all the best to you as you try to recover from this nas tid storm. we'll be right back with much

more on the flooding in colorado and with more news.

this just? . former secretary withdrawn from being federal reserve chairman. he had not been officially nominated, but he was a candidate. his prospects starting to look a little tough after some

democrats on the senate banking committee says they would vote against him. ity we' think we're going tk in with one of our correspondence. why did he decide to withdraw his name? >> well, fred, larry summers was controversial. he's the former treasury chief whose name was mentioned as the next president of the federal reserve. somers was thought to be a favorite of president obama. he served this president as economic advisor. several sources now telling cnn somers has withdrawn his name. as you mentioned, fredricka, three democrats rekently said they would not guilty su not guilty knnot support somers. he has become controversial because of his statements about women. now, the wall street journal has

published a statement sfr somers in a letter, aparentally, that he had delivered to the president of the united states. in it, he says i have reluctantly concluded that any posz confirmation process for me would not serve the interest of the federal reserve, administration or ultimately, the sbregs of the nation's on going economic recovery. so the zeshlg continues. >> explain a little furtherer why the resis tense from the banking committee? >> well, as joe just laid out, stlrp a number of democrats that

were really pushing back against larry somers. they think he's too conservative when it comes to economic policy. or it's too moderate, not liberal enough. that's something i am tolds democrats every ebb brauought u with the president in private. for example, right when they left for august recess, the president had a meeting with house democrats and one kind of stood up and said what's up with larry somers. i'm told that the president was really tough with his responses. he personally did not think that there's that much of a difference between somers and other people he is considering, like janet who is another person under consideration. so the president very much clearly wanted to have larry somers, least in consideration, i'm told, at the idea of the democrats saying he's not the right person. the other issue is the idea that

he might not have the greatest reputation with. and as joe just mentioned, he was president of the yumplt. now, i should also say in his defense, one of the most famous women of recent that month, cheryl sandbourg, she was one of his property jays. she has been out there defending him and his attitude towards and policy towards women. you have women in the senate and there are a number of them now in the democratic party. and you have liberalings who don't think it's the right wade to go. it would have been a very, very rough confirmation battle hereto in the committee. >> all right, dana bash, thank you so much for joining us on the foin. next, bill cosby never shy about speaking h 4iz mind.

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at this hour, former u.s. secretary of state and u.s. attorney genric holder are marking a solemn occasion in birmingham. 50 years ago today, during the middle of a church service, the klu klux klan bombed a church in alabama. four girls were killed. between 1 they're lives aring with remembered across the nation today. wu, in birmingham, a special

memorial, including this 10-foot-tall sculpture unvailed this weekend to honor them. i want to bring in cnn anchor don lemon who brought in a candid conversation about the pornsz of recognizing this tragedy. don, why is bill cosby really out in front of this? >> he is down dm birmingham doing a summit on economic empowerment for young people, especially african americans. so he sort of made it his mission. i was just in birmingham last week. i live there. and remember that there's four little girls, 16th street baptist church memorial and the civil rights mu sooechl seum is. we talked about his career.

the juvenile justice system. i asked him about those four little girls that died and he said it is important to never forget our national tragedies and he explained why. here it is. >> what america has to understand is that there were just -- some people get embarrassed about what happened. same way if i'm talking about something, empowerment and they can do it themselves. there are people who don't want to see these scenes talked about a game. i didn't do. yes, i'm white. please, do we have to -- it's painful, but we have to really get to this so that if you do it the correct way, which is show

your children whand, tell your children, this is not our fault. but this is what happened then. look at these faces. is there's a sick rns oness in these faces. >> you were giving your first national apeernsz on "the tonight show"? >> i had decided that i, as a writer and a monoologist, was going to go on. and i am going to show people that i am the antithesis of what hollywood is putting out for people to see about us. in 1963, i step out, i decide not to do the peace i was going to do, but just look at the audience.

give them a chance to think because they know that this black face is going to talk about race. and i said to this audience, i want to talk to you about karate. >> many people didn't realize he was a pioneer when it kwam to civil rights. >> we'll be right back with much more in "the newsroom."

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anthony bordane is back. >> there is muslim porter, there's a jewish porter. there's a christian porter and there's an armenian porter. each one is independent, but people that live in the area are all from that religion. >> right. >> now we're walking in the steps of jesus christ, right? >> as i so often do. >> so this is via delarosa. they come here and they feel like oh, my god, i am walking in the steps of muhammad, david or jesus. it's like je sus was here. i feel like i should be more smgs.

a little bit more pius? >> you can catch the season premier tonight. that's going to do it for me. have a great rest of the week and rest of the weekend. we're still in the weekend. there's don lemon. >> i have to sit in my office and watch it. >> nobody ever knew you put on anything. oh, stop it, don. everything is all right. >> have a great couple days off, see you next week. >> i am don lemon. we're going to hear from emergency officials that is just a mess today. northern colorado, denver, ft. collins. 4500 square miles of bd