republic of tragic is done is situated in the foothills of the permian range in central asia it is a landlocked country bordering afghanistan in the south as biggest on in kyrgyzstan in the north and west and china to the east the country significantly lacks major transport routes due to its vast distance from the sea mountains cover ninety three percent of the country's terrain. stone is regarded as one of the world's poorest countries according to the international monetary fund half of its population subsists on less than two dollars a day the country's difficult economic situation is largely the result of the civil war which lasted from one nine hundred ninety two to ninety ninety seven after. the standoff began here on the square. it was called freedom square at the time. we lost our political identity it was a time when we were seen as wild savages fighting one another. for several years after the collapse of the soviet union various political clans intention to stand well locked in a bit of power struggle according to official figures the armed conflict cost one hundred thousand lives th

we were landlocked. we could not get a renewal of women for five months which must be done outside the u.s. why, if you have already had success of renewals? we ended up driving to tia juana with our family in order to return to the uk. we then had only five months to verify. we flew back to the u.k. for the interview which cost about $6,000, rather than processing in the u.s. embassies were rude to me and my bike in the process. -- wife in the process. we were a small company but had been in the u.s. for eight years, and had one of our best years. they seemed unaware of general business and tax accounting practices. however, my wife developeafter h the officer, the visa was approved. afton and there was finger wagging saying that you need to come up was something better than two years' time currently, there is no resolution for these types of green card holders. we will have to constantly trouble in the new at the will of immigration authorities. so how does this affect families? it affects our ability

perhaps the greatest irony of hurricane irene is that landlocked vermont is suffering the greatest impact from the storm. >> the river started coming from the river toward the house and that's when it was time to get out. >> reporter: dozens of towns in vermont remain cut off. washed out roads and bridges will take months to repair. the national guard is now trucking in supplies where it can while choppers are being used for more remote areas. from the ground the scope of the devastation is all too real. buildings washed out by the sudden torrents are ready to collapse. >> i didn't really think it would happen to this building. i thought it was structurally going to be okay because it's been here for so long. >> reporter: to the south in patterson, new jersey, residents woke to another day surrounded by water. emergency crews continue to rescue stranded people by boat. >> a lot of our fellow citizens are still reeling from hurricane irene and its aftermath. >> reporter: president obama pledged support to those affected. >> as a government we're going to make sure that states and communiti

. >> as a rain moved into vermont, the flooding in the landlocked state was the worst in 80 years. this bridges barely standing. this one has been swept away. >> oh, my god. >> in upstate new york estimates they try to reach those cut off by the flood. >> there are towns basically destroyed. everyone is staying at friends' houses. we have people stay with us because their house is gone. >> mass., this loading container it rips through the trees. authorities ever prepared for coastal flooding, yet the worst was in the land. cables have been knocked down leaving millions without power, and it is not over yet. rivers are still swelling which can cause more flooding. the president is watching closely. >> we will make sure people have all the support they need as they continue to assess and repair the damage left by the storm. that will continue in the days ahead. it will take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude. the effects are still being felt across much of the country. >> not in manhattan where the city went back to work. here in new york to come in the water levels in th

. >> as irene moves north to vermont, the flooding in this landlocked state was the worst in 80 years. its bridges barely standing. this one was swept away. >> oh, my god. >> in up state new york, rescuers tried to reach those cut off by the floods. >> the town is basically destroyed. i mean, maximum damage. people are displaced. everybody is staying at a friend's house. we have people staying with us because their house is gone. >> in massachusetts, a floating container rips through the trees. the authorities everywhere were expecting coastal flooding, yet the worst was inland where already swollen rivers burst their banks. millions are without power. on the sixth anniversary of hurricane katrina, the president is watching this one closely. >> we're going to make sure folks have all the support they need as they begin to assess and repair the damage left by the storm. >> new york was spared this devastation. but from north carolina to vermont, the east coast is counting the cost of irene's destruction. "bbc news," new york. >> rico, you've got some news for us about the deadly bird f

with one landlocked this could become a hot spot. the rest of the commute still looks good. there are no problems from marin. >> new this morning, the four months search for new general manager for bart's appears to be over. they will most likely named a new general manager. >> board has not had a full- time general manager since april, since it forced its general manager to step down. the agency has had to deal with many controversial issues including the shooting of a 45 year-old transient man, cutting off selfless service to prevent a protest and the protests that followed. here is a picture of a woman who will probably be general manager. she is the former head of the seattle department of transportation. she also worked under the clinton administration. she is not without controversy herself. back in 2008 as the head of department and transportation she caught heat for failing to respond to a snowstorm in seattle that crippled the city for two weeks. >> more on the eastern span of the bay bridge that is being replaced, once the new span is up and running the old span wi

landlocked vermont is suffering the greatest impact as of today. dozens of towns are still cut off essentially because of floodwaters and washed out roads. the national guard is trucking in food and water where it can while helicopters are being used for more remote areas. you see the aerial footage here. it's amazing. not just vermont, people in patterson, new jersey, woke up to another day surrounded by water. emergency crews continue to rescue stranded people by boats. president obama pledging support to those affected. >> as a government, we're going to make sure that states and communities have the support they need so their folks can recover. >> recovery in north carolina will also take time. the outer banks' only highway is washed out in several places. >>> and more wet weather could be coming. another storm is brewing in the atlantic. this one is named katya. >> our meteorologist rob mayeda looks at where this is heading. irene to katya, no end here. >> this storm may be stronger than irene given the fact that now you see the eastern seaboa

perhaps the greatest irony of hurricane irene is that landlocked vermont is suffering the greatest impact from the storm. >> then the water started coming from the river. that's when it was time to get out. >> reporter: dozens of towns remain cut out. washed out bridges will take months to repair. the national guard is trucking in supplies where it can where choppers with being used for more remote areas. the scope is all too real. buildings ready to collapse. >> i really didn't think it would happen to this building. i thought it was structurally going to be okay because it had been here for so long. >> reporter: to the south in new jersey, residents awoke to another day surrounded by water. emergency crews continue to rescue stranded people by boat. >> a lot of our citizens are still reeling. >> reporter: president obama pledged support to those affe affected. >> as a government, we're going to make sure that states and communities have the support they need so their folks can recover. >> reporter: recovery in north carolina will also take some time. the outer banks only highways washed

this is vermont and a landlocked state and borders canada. the last time they were affected by a tropical storm was 1938. people are not used to it here. they have flooding, but they don't have tropical systems. all throughout the states, creeks and brooks are rushing with powerful water causing immense flooding. most of the water has now reced receded, but what you have now is millions of dollars in cleanup and worse yet at least one person was killed. the body of a woman was discovered in a creek 15 minutes west of here this morning. suzanne? >> i understand as well that there was someone who died. and tell us how the community is actually dealing with this? clearly, they were quite surprised and caught off guard by what had taken place. >> yeah, and people are shocked. they are stunned. remember, this tropical system of irene began off of the coast of africa, and then it went to the caribbean and people thought it would hit florida and ended up hitting north carolina and then everyone talked about new york city and all of the sudden the st

. >> irene spare the big cities became down hard in landlocked of vermont. if up to 11 in. of rain fell on some parts of the state yesterday, the flooding is the worst in 70 years. the historic vermont covered bridges and waters. the water rose so quickly that people had to grab what they could and run for safety. >> everyone's home are pretty much on the water. >> and massachusetts, the storm covered the beachfront town of westport and debris. dozens of boats were all washed away, east haven could that it suffered heavy heavily damaged they will have to be rebuilt. in new york city, the damage was relatively minor, a subway train started moving this morning and fire department crews cleaned up downed trees in the west village across the hudson in new jersey, a military truck tried to make it through the high water and some residents got a ride through out the water and a front loader. and firefighters stood in waist deep water as they tried to save a burning home. >> it will take days for the airline industry to get hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers to their dest

of the things about these canadian tar sands thankfully he said up until now they've still been landlocked and so the canadians are desperately trying to get this oil in market and so it is an environmental disaster that is affecting indigenous people in canada right now affecting people that live in alberta. and beginning to move it's way out and so one of the i think the goals of this protest is to avoid the type of disaster that we've seen elsewhere but if you know people in eighteen's trying to avoid it in the situation we've got cancer alley down in texas well there and i mean because of the refineries the refinery process blows all of the stuff in the air that is that what you have is trying to avoid well i mean canada doesn't have the refining capacity for this oil so they're trying to get it down to that massive are going to try to go filled with them to build a giant pipe i think at this point they really want to get it out to market too so they're trying to get it to our port and i think we're beginning to find more and more evidence that this whale is even intended for the unite

when you point out to people that you are a member of congress from a landlocked state with no beaches and you voted for a beach replenishment project, maybe it makes sense. allen west voted for a beach replenishment project, and he's in palm beach, so maybe you can excuse him. if you are from a landlocked state, there's no excuse for voting for a beach replenishment project, so you should be held accountable for that. on campaign finance and voting, if information is out there in a transparent way and not being stolen, if you can put the information out there in a transparent way, all of us should hold our members of congress accountable. that's the way i would go about campaign finance reform. >> that is outrageous, mike. john kerry is in pennsylvania, but has five speed houses. you cannot expect him to oppose a beach replenishment plants. yes, sir? >> how you put together your scoring machine, i've been trying to figure out how to vote for the best leaders. do they weigh things this way or that way? give us an idea about how the scoring happens? do they vote yes or no? >> we have lo

it's a landlocked state. that i imagine if you're living in vermont you're not thinking about a hurricane. what is the mood of the community that you're in. >> reporter: these people have just been in awe, brooke. they say they've never seen anything like this. we've talked to some people who have lived here all 80 years of their lives and they were not expecting this massive flooding to come through here now and if you see this group of people coming over on that vehicle there, that is the only road. it's a side dirt road if you take a four-wheeler, that's the only way to get into this town. this is people used to traveling back and forth on this road and now 800 of them, 400 miles behind me just stuck. so they are frustrated, they are in awe, and above all, many people are just happy that -- especially in this area that these homes are all in tact that their homes were not damaged, brooke. >> i don't know whether vermont has the capability or the machinery to put all of those roads and bridges together. hav

it's landlocked. what are you seeing? >> well, what we're seeing out here is some of these waters actually start to recede,brook. the governor spoke earlier and he said areas of higher elevations are starting to see less and less flooding. he's warning that the flooding is active. it's currently happening especially in areas of lower elevations and all across the state, there's a state of shock out here as almost every single waterway here in vermont flooded. they have said that this is the worst flooding they've seen since 1927. i want you to get a look at this building behind me. this is an artist studio. luckily everyone was able to get out okay o. as you can see, this building has been condemned. it's just hanging on there. right over the side of this stream. what we've noticed so far, driving in. we didn't have any issues. the major roads. the governor and emergency crews say that about 260 roads here in this state alone are currently flooded. big issue with that is that some of these smaller communities have actuall

inland, landlock. warmer and low to mid-80s for you. east bay shore, low to mid-70s.exems is cast -- the exception is castro valley. 86 at dublin. 90 at walnut creek. low to mid-90s antioch and brentwood and livermore. 80s to morgan hill. heading to the bay, more clouds and the temperatures are cooler, mid-to-upper 60s for you. heading to the giants game, what a great day. we'll have 60 degrees at 12:45, to 64. look, almost total sunshine during the entire game. all right, so we come back tonight. temperatures in the 50s again. drizzle along the coast. antioch could be the exception at 60. all right, your accuweather seven-day forecast -- steady as she goes for thursday and friday. saturday and sunday, marine layer, thicker and cooling those two days. have a great day. sue? >> we have a couple of issues westbound 580. now first we go to livermore. an accident at north flynn, just cleared from the lane. you can see the slowing there. getting first report of accident westbound 580 at hacienda. you are finding slow traffic heading toward the pleasanton-dublin interchange