and you're looking right now at live pictures over patterson, new jersey.e that a picture of a bridge just swamped by water. we spoke to the mayor of patterson a few minutes ago and he was saying those evacuations you just saw were going on until 10:30 last night and in total, he estimates more than 1,000 people have been displaced from their homes. christine, one of the things that caused some people to leave their homes, some of the high rises had to be evacuated because power was shut down. the town had to open a couple of schools in order to provide housing for people, many more people, than they expected to be evacuated. christine? >> all right. mary snow, thanks. >>> trouble in connecticut too. connecticut is now ordering new evacuations as water surges downstream from places further north in new england. also along the state shoreline there are scenes of total devastation. alina cho is live in east haven, connecticut, which is east of new haven, connecticut. and the picture behind you, it's just unbelievable. >> it really is, carol. good morning to y

there's not a scott patterson. >> do you have scott patterson's name written down?ave an address. that's all i was going to do. i don't have no phone number, no address. >> you never wrote down scott patterson's name anywhere? >> no. >> he maintained until the very end of the interview that he was just a dusty, determined traveler who came from a long ways away to try to get honest work. the problem with that, of course, is that none of it makes sense. when you put it altogether, the chat, his crumbling story and the fact that you know, he's the guy sitting in the kitchen across from me, you know it doesn't look good for him. >> the young man i thought was supposed to be here -- >> what's that person's name? >> scott was supposed to be here and he didn't mention his name. i said look --

this is patterson, new jersey. patterson is a city of 146,000 west of new york. nearly a thousand people were rescued there today by water craft as the passaic river keeps on rising. it's not expected to crest until this evening. we have two reports tonight beginning with wyatt andrews in brattleboro, vermont. >> reporter: as impressive as the damage has been here in vermont, today the response got more impressive. 500 road crews got very quickly to work and emergency teams combed these hillsides in all terrain vehicles looking for residents who had been stranded. >> reporter: in the town of jamaica, catherine hatinguais and suzanna maggi were rescued after the road and two bridges that led to their hillside home washed out. you would have had to walk? >> yes. >> exactly. >> reporter: for all supplies? >> yes. and it was not walkable. the bridges there are gone. >> reporter: there's only one road into jamaica now. the road leading out of town sits at the bottom of the ball mountain creek. the creek rose so violently on sunday it destroyed six houses, including wh

patterson. he has written a new work "the devil's light" which explores the knew collar mission of al qaeda, what happens when they steal a bomb and try to detonate it on the anniversary of 9/11, including the u.s. intelligence failure named brooke chandler who may or may not save the day. mr. patterson was an lawyer before becoming a writer, he also worked as a lawyer with the security and exchain commission. he is in the chairman of the organization of common cause and has written for such publications as "the times of london" and "washington post" many of the works have been international best sellers and i dare say "the devil's light" will join that list. welcome richard north patterson. [applause] [applause] >> it's great to see you and to have read your book "the devil's light" doesn't refer to osama bin laden's flashlight, but to the light emitted from a nuclear weapon. and this is a very serious subject and people who know your career will not be surprised that you've tackled this subjec

those were picktures from patterson, new jersey.re following the live pictures from search and rescue operations taking place all night. >>> forecasters and many people cleaning up this morning say irene's impact justified those government warnings to get out of the way. our john zarrella takes a look at how experts at the national hurricane center predict these storms. >> max owns a bar outside of philadelphia. it flooded. he says no way did the government overreact to irene. >> i think we all got really lucky. it could have been a lot worse. i'd rather be safe than sorry. i think they did what was necessary. i think better safe than sorry. >> reporter: this is where the information comes from that helps keep you safe, rather than sorry. the national weather service in miami. here, the science of forecasting is digested, regurgitated. all of the forecasters told irene would be a major hurricane when it hit north carolina. >> at least in the guidance we were looking at, there was no indication of anything that would cause the storm

back here in patterson today, while we did see frustration, sadness and anger, we also saw the better angels of our nature on full display. a grandson's kindness and a little boy's resilience. so, how were the fire crews who picked you up from your house, were they nice? >> yeah, really nice. i want to be just like them. >> reporter: for that little guy, at least, all of this has been something of an adventure. george, , do have one bit of breaking news. amtrak just came out and said that as of tomorrow morninin they will be resuming train service between boston and philadelphia. this has been a massive service outage for amtrak. inconveniencing tens of thousands of people. so, that is one bit of good news tonight. >> slowly getting back to normal. okay, dan, thanks very much. >>> and with all the rescues dan told you about, we're also learning about the lives put in danger when they didn't have to be. it turns out all too often, some simple advice was ignored. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: a father and his twtwlittle girls holding on for dear life in manchester, new hampshi

. >> reporter: meantime at patterson's shop in mississippi there's no i.d.equired just don't be a stranger. >> if i were to come into your store from off the street and say i want a thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate for my corn field, would you sell it to me? >> no. >> why not? >> because i don't know you. >> reporter: the farm and fertilizer industry is opposed. arguing that was heavy handed. not anymore. >> clearly over the last six or so months the security landscape has changed. >> we're locking up. >> reporter: soon patterson recognizes he may have to change his security as well. that rural america isn't immune on the war on terror. >> and that's it for this week's second look. i'm frank some earlville. we'll see you again next week. in here, anarchy meets order. working with at&t, doctors set up a broadband solution to handle data and a mobility app to stay connected with their business. so they can run the office... e office. call at&t and see what we can do for you. with unlimited voice plus broadband, starting at $70 dollars. it's a network of pos

louise patterson when she was on the zoological society. that does not impact my decision. >> good evening, commissioners, president goh. i am representing arthur and the les paterson -- eleaslouise patterson. several components are embedded in a revised set of architectural drawings on august 16. we adhered -- we are here to request the board take jurisdiction of the permit and require dbi to approve those drawings as a permit of conditions. specific changes from the permit under appeal include the following. as shown on the overhead. the skylight has been reduced considerably in height. the skylight that covers a stair penthouse, a skylight 5 has been trumped in its footprint and reduced in height. there is an agreement that as a result of the infill of the allied court on the respondents property, they will paint the walls abutting the light court in a reflective color. there are restrictions that would cast clear offside. in terms of elevation, they have a black line shows to the heights of the skylights that were approved and under app

randi, we were talking to the mayor of patterson earlier.ing that he is looking to open up a few schools. so that when people are evacuated, he's anticipating thousands of people will be evacuated and he is looking to open some schools to serve as shelters. >> in terms of yourself, mary, have you had a chance to talk to residents there? do they have any idea what their future plans are, how they're going to dry out? >> they're looking to stay with family and friends for the people that i've talked to. they said they they really did not anticipate the watt toer get this high. as i mentioned earlier, this is a city that is prone to flooding. one many spoke to said that he was going to stay in his home. he just expected the waters to recede and then he realized at one point last night that the water wasn't going down. it was actually rising and he realized he had to get out. he did not have a phone. so he was waiting for a boat and somebody to come by and take him out. >> mary snow in patterson, new jersey. mary, thank you very much. >>> in jus

this is of the union bridge southwest of patterson. at 7 and thousands of folks have been forced to relocate. >>> still ahead, the government releases thousands of weapons which somehow end up with drug gangs in their hands. new fallout into the obama administration. new details there. plus, 19 years old. forced to kill from moammar gadhafi. a female teenage execution n nerer. arwa live from tripoli next. nic. oh, thanks. keeps me young. hello there, handsome. your dinner's in the microwave, dear. ♪ where do you want to go? just drive. [ engine revs, tires screech ] mom? ♪ naomi pryce: i am. i'm in the name your own price division. i find empty hotel rooms and help people save - >> - up to 60% off. i am familiar. your name? > naomi pryce. >> what other "negotiating" skills do you have? > i'm a fifth-degree black belt. >> as am i. > i'm fluent in 37 languages. >> (indistinct clicking) > and i'm a master of disguise >> as am i. > as am i. >> as am i. > as am i. >> well played naomi pryce. >>> we've been talking about hurricane irene and

next we have terence patterson. >> the afternoon. i am terence patterson. what i think i can bring to the mental health board is an ability to further the integration of programs among agencies and to extend culturally appropriate services. i will speak on that a little more, but i will just mention a bit of my background. before i came to san francisco in 1971, i worked in philadelphia as a community organizer and also with delinquent youth gangs. i then was the race relations officer and family therapy director at the presidio. i then worked for seven i then worked for seven years at the family practice clinic. i worked in washington for the national institutes of mental health since 1990, i have been in san francisco. my interest in integrating programs comes from when i was at san francisco general. we would get children and teenagers referred who had mental health problems. there was no coordination between the school, the social service agency, and the mental health system. i was relatively effective in doing that, in having passion about it, for all

the river here in patterson did crest this afternoon.expected that the waters here will continue to rise. you may see that line on the sidewalk here. ha is where the water reached earlier today. you can see it's receding just a bit, but there were a couple of high-rise apartments here in patterson that had to be evacuated because the basement was flooded. that's where the power systems were. they had to cut power and all these people had to leave homes. wolf? >> where are these people going? >> the mayor has been working to open a couple of schools and three schools because many more people than they anticipated had to leave their houses. >> all right, mary, thanks and good luck to the people over there. we are keeping a close watch on a new potential threat. tropical storm katia expected to be a hurricane within the next day live at the hurricane center, what's the latest? >> it is growing. 60 to 70 mile per hour gusts now. you think where did that name come from? it came as the replacement for katrina which was of course retired as tha

it will crest from little falls just about patterson about 13.2. you have to go back to 1904 to see a higher level of water. we just have two -- you referred to it, chuck, we had two great rescues this morning right out of the pasic river. -- passaic river. all bridge is closed. when you're trying to evacuate people, when you're trying to respond to a tremendous need and your bridges are closed. you've got major problems of traffic in the area. two people rescued that fell into the passaic river by our brave firefighters who are called on to do things like this day in and day out. they don't need a pat on the back. they need our support 365 days a year and our police officers particularly for a member of congress. that's a commercial for me. >> tell me, that's fine. ob absolutely, that's why we all endorse that message. congressman, tell me this, what are experts telling you you say the river's going to crest in a couple of hours here. how long is it going to take it for to fully recede to see the bridges opening? >> i don't think we'll see it full

we were in patterson, new jersey a few miles away from here. really the danger was that what looked like a few inches of water quickly turned to a few feet of water. and then add the river currents to it. we saw one man and his son having to be evacuated. basically what happened is they went back to their home to inspect the damage, and rescue workers say they were just swept away by the current. and they wound up clinging to a log until rescue workers could come in a boat to get them out of there. >> mandatory evacuations in some areas just announced tonight in the last couple hours. mary, thanks very much for the reporting. let's take you now to vermont where one of our producers was talking about taking her family to be out of irene's way. didn't work out that way. she stayed in new york and it's a good thing she did. parts of vermont were literally cut off from the rest world when roads collapsed and bridges were washed away. a couple were in vermont getting married. they are still in pitsfield. they and most of their wedding guests. i spok

it's the same waterway where the body of a kidnapped boy from patterson was found last february. yesterday a car was pulled from the canal, off highway 5. the patrol is doing a search of the canal a known dumping ground for stolen vehicles. they pulled out the chevy blazer and found a body. according to the newspaper police tracked the license plate and found the owner was reported missing by family members four months ago. they are not yet releasing the man's name. >>> 9 little boy from patterson pulled out in february was a 4- year-old. he was kidnapped by his mother's boyfriend a few weeks earlier. a massive search was launched and several public individual its were held. investigators then found the c car in the canal. >> two police officers involved in a shooting last month. the police department sent a letter yesterday to the aclu and another group and in the letter named the officers. the aclu e-mailed us that letter and it identified them as 35-year-old richard hastings and 30-year-old matthew lopez. kenneth haring accidentally shot himself to death rub running away from

this is from patterson, new jersey.continues to flow through the streets there. in many of these places, the water levels are rising. crews are going door-to-door in the area telling people to get out. we will keep an eye on that for you. we have got these pictures continuing to come in. you can see raft rescues under way there. >>> hurricane irene has killed now 38 people. 38. that is ten more than were confirmed just an hour ago. obama administration officials will visit three states today that were hit hard. fema director craig fugate hets to vermont where flooding has stranded hundreds of people. as irene dies, tropical storm katia forms in the atlantic. the national hurricane center is watching it as the next threat to the east coast. maximum mum sustained winds 40 and it is far away but expected to move faster as it gets closer to the united states. >>> 25 years old. already a tennis great. ali says he is dreamy. raphael nadal will play in prime time tonight in the u.s. open. >> he is the defending champion. numbe

that's where mary snowe is, live in patterson, new jersey.e things gotten any better this afternoon? >> reporter: they haven't, suzanne, and it's going to get worse because the passaic river hasn't yet crested here. it's about three blocks behind from where i'm standing. we are here with the new jersey urban search and rescue command post and teams have been going out in boats. they just came in bringing people in. joining us now is a patterson fire chief, michael pastorino. chief, how many evacuations have you been doing so far? >> at this point we have over 600 boat evacuations of residents within the city. >> reporter: over 600? >> yes. >> reporter: you are expecting many more? >> we are. we haven't gotten any letup and the numbers just get more and more requests for people needing to be evacuated. >> reporter: to your understanding, the passaic river is cresting here this afternoon? >> at some point today, it is expected to crest. >> reporter: at this point, how deep is that water? >> it's hard to say. they are projecting the river is goi

back here in patterson today we did see frustration sadness and anger we also saw the better angel of our nature on full display. grand son kindness and a little boy's resilience. how were the fire crew who picked you up from the wlous they nasty. >> really nice. i want to be just like them. >>reporter: that little guy at least all this has been something of an adventure. we do have one bit of breaking news. amtrak announcing that as of wednesday morning it will be resuming its train service between boston and philadelphi philadelphia. this is a massive service outage. inconveniencing tens of thousands of people. so this at least is one bit of good news. abc news patterson, new jersey. >>> tonight authorities are saying that many of the 44 deaths blamed on irene were preventible and many rescuers are being -- rescue putting emergency personnel in danger. good example in new hampshire. father took his 2 young did you did you tell uses out jet skiing. ended upholding on dear life feet from a water fall precarious to say the least. about. >> firefighters from here in free mont are in ess

. >> rescue crews in patterson new jersey are working around the clock.his worker carried a baby across the water covered road. emergency crews have helped at least 3500 people. floodwaters are turning highways into rivers. machinery has been brought in to move the rocks and dirt. >> the government's main disaster aid fund is running out of money as the obama administration says damage from irene could run into billions of dollars. fema says they have less than $800 million in disaster aid. they have been forced to freeze earlier building projects dating back to hurricane katrina. back here a gas leak forced residents to close and an veaq. arnold and industrial way and solano way off of highway 4. live with the latest. >> reporter: they shut down the on-ramp to westbound highway 4 here at peralta. they evacuated businesses within half a mile of this area. it all sounds very alarming but officials tell me they are just being overly cautious. its two-inch gas main that broke. pg&e is should recollect off the gas and they are here to make the repair which th

. >> en este vecindario de patterson-nu aynew jersey en doe viven varios árabes era de alegría.ras de poder y a partir desde el punto de vista es algo positivo no solamente para los libios si no para la comunidad internacional. >> entretanto el secretario de la naciones unidas hizo un llamado a la cordura y el derecho de vivir en democracia. >> desafiante las fuerzas leales a gaddafi aseguran que no se reno rendirán: >> en guatemala, este fin de semana se scombcelebró el entie del migrante julio cardona que pu murió a pedradas denunciaron que la policía lo habría vendido a la turba para ser linchado, el joven participaba en una marcha a nombre de inmigrantes en camino a los estados unidos. >> en lugar que él me entierra no que yo lo voy a enterrar y sin dinero. es lo que le lloro a la vida. >> la madre de julio a bandonó cuando niño para irse a los suns y nunca más supieran de ella y los abuelos de julio dependían de él. >> algo para proteger a su familia en caso de huracanes, tragedias, si tiene presupuesto reforzar el techo las ventanas y puertas o porportónes grandes. >> con

that started just after noon near the intersection of patterson pass and cross roads. it burned more than 200 acres. dry grassland, no structures were damaged. >> i'm wondering if the heat contributed to any of that. >> it is a good statement because it was 100 degrees today. officially it was 97 in liver more. hot spot was 99 at lifemore. what you cannot see is the marine layer. high today across cross the bay area, 56 degrees. 93 in cairn jose and 97 degrees in concorde. the winds were blowing up to 15, 20. tomorrow, we will cool down substantially. 11 to 17 degrees cooler expected. out the door tomorrow t everybody is going to be gray. we will see the blanket of clouds developing in the overnight hours. into the 50s for overnight lows. this is a trough to the north of us. this is going to press up against that bank of low clouds. so the temperatures are going to go down. a deepening marine layer. wouldn't p too surprised to see drizzle for the morning commute and perhaps all the way into the bay. east bay numbers will be the warmest. up to 87 degrees. that's down fr

. >>> this just in, we're showing you live footage of a rescue in patterson, new jersey. floodwaters making it very difficult to do anything on the ground having to do with some rescues in via helicopter. we'll be monitoring that situation both in new jersey and vermont where a lot of roads are impassable by car or truck. and you have to see a lot of things by helicopter. key pieces of the president's job plan are still being debated inside the white house. just days before it's supposed to be unveilunveiled. with me now, former chief of staff for president to ask you question because it's a debate inside the west wing. president obama next week, does he go big, does he go tactical? >> welling i think there's no question he needs to go big. the unemployment rate remains high.ng i think there's no question he needs to go big. the unemployment rate remains high.g i think there's no question he needs to go big. the unemployment rate remains high. i think there's no question he needs to go big. the unemployment rate remains high., i think there's no question he needs to go bi

in patterson, new jersey, one family after another were rescued by boat as their homes and neighborhood fell victim to floodwaters. tonight, mandatory evacuations were ordered for 1,000 families in wallington with floodwaters on the move. >> the floodgates, we got to do something about this. >> and the governor surveyed the latest assault on his state. >> reporter: rivers in upstate new york with massive runoff quickly overtopped their banks. >> these floodwaters happen quickly and you can't survive. >> the challenge for us is to assess the damage and get back to work. >> reporter: in the catskills, towns like prattsville were among the hardest hit. today, looking where her daughter's trailer once stood. >> she lost everything. she has a 2-year-old baby and she's having a baby any time now. >> reporter: meanwhile, in land-locked vermont, people in more than a dozen towns are reportedly cut off after raging floodwaters badly damaged or even washed away roads and more than 200 bridges. after getting married over the weekend at her childhood summer camp. >> the wedding was beautiful. the r

the river is swollen and raging through the flooded area around the city of patterson. hundreds of people remain out of their homes. officials say the flood waters could crest this afternoon or tomorrow. >>> a new twist in efforts to save a really old tree called granny on the peninsula, but there is an ultimatum. and temperatures cooling down. meteorologist rosemary recognize co-is here to tell you how long. >> we have to do much more to investigate every transit. >>> suggestions made this morning to make all forms of transportation better in san francisco. 3çóóó/çç< >>> libyan rebels are now advancing towards the hometown of ousted leader moammar gaddafi. rebel forces are gathering about 60-miles west of sert. they're trying to negotiate a surrender but say they will only wait until saturday until they take action. rebel leaders are asking the al jean government to return goff's wife and children for trial which is increasing tensions between the two countries. >>> husband lynns all over the world are celebrating the -- muslims all over the world are celebrating the e

. >> 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 communities have the support they need so their folks can recover. >> yeah, that's a breach. >> reporter: recovery in north carolina will also take some time. the outer banks' only highway is washed out in several places. the clean-up crews continue to work around the clock as they try to recover from hurricane irene. jay gray, nbc news, new york. >>> in addition to monitoring irene's aftermath, president obama is working on a plan to relieve the nation's aling economy. the president is expected to talk about jobs today, challenging congress to take action. a preview of the larger economic proposal he will be making and selling to congress next week. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more on this. tr

make that choice, because even looking at the senate, one point, i had the opportunity when david patterson was in there to get that senate seat in new york and i looked at it and washington, d.c., in many ways is paralyzed. in a way we never seen it before. and i have so many friends in the senate and congress who are frustrated because they feel like they are wasting their lives up there. there is no real changes. and obama hit the same wall. and obama wanted to change things and he hit a wall of corporate money of coal mining and tried to pass the cap and trade system, pharmaceutical money when he passed the obamacare and got watered down into a much less economical program. republicans made it that way. he wanted a single-payer plan and that's what we have with medicare which actually works. it's a quarter of the cost. he hit that wall of money and i think in washington, d.c., -- the stuff -- the places where i'm most active these days is at the state governments because at the states there is freedom for innovative governors to get programs. tavis: i agree in everything you said tonigh

this is patterson, new jersey where you can see floodwaters rushing through a big city. you can see what mike has been talking about hurricane irene's path but a few days before you saw the kind of flooding inland that could devastate a community and water gushing right there. rivers overflowing their banks. that is continuing to happen with damage estimated between $7-10 billion on the eastern seaboard. power is still out to millions. we'll continue to follow the story. >>> newly released documents show enough fake apple products to turn out the china to supply the entire world with apple knockoffs. it's contained in a state department cable. it also says the tech giant had no anti-counterfeiting team until early 2009, long after the i-pod was a worldwide hit. this monday. chinese government shut down phony apple stores. >> libyan rebels are confident they will catch dictator moammar khadafy. they said rebels have a good idea where she hiding. alan wang shows many libyans here in the bay area are celebrating. >> he is back home with the fellow libyan ex-pat patriots aft

patterson, i know that you are not actually in my district. this is a huge issue. i hope that we will be able to see you on the mental health board as well. to have a motion? we can do that without opposition. madam clerk, please call item number 3. >> resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors chu have a property- based improvement district. >> the sponsor of that legislation is on the committee so i will turn it over to supervisor elsbernd. >> this is pretty self- explanatory. should the board passes resolution, this will allow the business community to decide whether or not they would like to pursue a community benefit district. this will unable the vote to happen. this is a self-determination act. the residences, the business owners. they will make the decision and then this simply opens the door. we have a few great business owners from the west portal. matt rodgers, in particular, has really pushed this issue. if you would like to have the opportunity to give it a push, come on up. all of you are welcome. if you would like to say anything,

incredible video out of patterson, new jersey, showing the great falls of the river where waters are still gushing and rising. the storm has killed seven people across the state. michelle franzen is live in manville, new jersey. nine rivers across the state have exceeded or passed the record levels. how difficult has it been for the rescue crews of new jersey to navigate through this water to get where they're needed? >> reporter: oh, i think we have seen from the aerials, it's been very difficult. they've had to use boats. some of them have had to swim to not only reach certain areas, but for their own safety. while that's still playing out, there's another development here. that's cleanup in this area. this is one of the areas still left without power in manville. we're in about a 2.5 square mile section of manville. this is the most sought after tool today. they're using this around the clock along with the generators to pump out the water from their homes. mostly in the basements in this area, including this home here. it's got the unique sort of situation where we've got the rar

in patterson, new jersey's third largest city, emergency crews used boats to pluck people from their homes. this woman and her two children escaped after watching the water rise in their living room. >> it scared me, the reality is really hitting me in my face. >> reporter: the record breaking flooding is affecting nearby communities where utility companies turned off the electricity last night. >> i guess they cut it off because of the water. it's crazy. >> reporter: homeland security secretary janet napolitano and fema director craig fugate will see the flooding for sthechthem today when they visit new jersey. tuesday they'll visit three other states including hard hit vermont. the national guard is having to use helicopters to deliver food and water to some towns still cut off. irene's torrential rains washed out hundreds of roads and dozens of bridges in the state. crews are already working to rebuild the crumbled infrastructure. this emergency road was built in just eight hours, engineers didn't wait for approval to move this creek. >> we'll apologize later. it had to be done. >

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 seaboard thofeoa where this is forf off the coast of africa, on the right-hand corner of the screen. this already a tropical storm. winds at 60 miles per hour. sometimes referred to as the cape verde tropical systems. they form off the cape verde islands. look at the long runway of warm sea surface temperatures stretching across the central atlantic and l

that fire started about 5 hours ago near the intersection of patterson pass and cross roads. firefighters say there is a lot of dry grass that makes it burn quickly. no structures threatened at this time. >>> what's in a name? for two groups in a traditional fremont neighborhood, the question means a lot. with cultural and religious undertones involved the debate over a name change sheeting up. len ramirez in fremont with a showdown pitting neighbor against neighbor. >> reporter: that's right. this is an older neighborhood in fremont. a lot of old fremont families that have been established here for years live here side by side with a loss of immigrants recently from afghanistan. everyone is still getting along. they just can't agree on what to call this place. drive up and down fremont boulevard and you will see centreville plastered on everything from business district banners to schoolyard message boards. it's been that way for over 100 years when the building that houses rudy's beauty salon was the centreville bank. >> it's an historical part of fremont. therefore, i thin

dental equipment maker patterson fell hard, down 10 %after its earnings came up short. and food company hormel shed 7% after a shortfall in earnings. gold halted its selling after yesterday's $104 an ounce drop. today, prices were up a fraction the c-m-e increased the margins on gold futures. silver rebounded back over $40 an ounce. and copper jumped more than 2% to its highest price in two weeks. growing confidence regarding asian economies and speculation around bernanke's speech tomorrow in the u.s. helped push up commodity prices. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: as millions of americans from the carolinas north prepare for hurricane irene, some may like the idea of a home that floats on water, but only when it needs to. we continue our series, "planet forward," a partnership with the george washington university social media project, using your ideas to power our future. floating homes is concept that could help flood prone areas adapt, as climate change makes weather more unpredictable. here's frank sesno. thailand has had flooding and floating buildin

career best score sixty three in the opening round of the sixty five on friday while sweet girl patterson is aiming for further glory in greensboro he's adopted hometown the two thousand and eight swim message three strokes back in third place and in rugby new zealand suffered a thirteen point loss to south africa in the tri nations now the best of warm ups ahead of the world cup which the old blacks are hosting this all some no love lost between the sides who had shared a trying nations title since two thousand and one rival looks back he's gotten some world wide low score squaring up to each other within the first sound men as the result and penalty from more than staying with the hosts cigs zero up saying very much in form with the boot taking another couple of penalties and also adding a drop goal to make it fifteen nothing to south africa and we should go is try just before half time was all the old rags could muster one thousand to five the finals but it's isn't going to still going to try nations eve become beat australia in brisbane next week. and as latest in sports for the momen

. >> reporter: some scary moments at the philadelphia eagles training camp when mike patterson suffered a seizure, possibly heat related. he is in stable condition in the hospital. scorching weather is affecting 165 million people in 18 states. 2,700 all-time heat records were broken in july, and more are being smashed this month. temperatures have topped 100 degrees in dallas for 32 straight days. dozens, mostly elderly, have died with no air-conditioning. 92-year-old amy johnson's bedroom was sweltering. 106 to 121 degrees. the health department gave her a free air-conditioning unit. the national weather service issued a heat advisory for southeast texas through thursday night. record heat is putting record demand on power grids. utilities are asking customers to cut back on electricity to avoid rolling blackouts. trains are running at reduced speeds this week for fear rails might buckle in the extreme heat. steven portnoy, abc news. >>> and we will have live updates on all of today's severe weather, texas and haiti on "good morning america." >>> in other news now, the justice departm

record pool-- was made up of 25 jocks who played in gay clubs, and-- you know, larry levan, larry patterson, and tee scott. i mean, it was all these popular disco deejays, and they were doing what-- the leader of that pool, judy weinstein, said that disco was black music made easy for white people to dance to. and that became-- the most important input on black radio was disco. and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blo

. >> rescue crews in patterson new jersey are working around the clock.his worker carried a baby across the water covered road. emergency crews have helped at least 3500 people. floodwaters are turning highways into rivers. machinery has been brought in to move the rocks and dirt. >> the government's main disaster aid fund is running out of money as the obama administration says damage from irene could run into billions of dollars. fema says they have less than $800 million in disaster aid. they have been forced to freeze earlier building projects dating back to hurricane katrina. back here a gas leak forced residents to close and an veaq. arnold and industrial way and solano way off of highway 4. live with the latest. >> reporter: they shut down the on-ramp to westbound highway 4 here at peralta. they evacuated businesses within half a mile of this area. it all sounds very alarming but officials tell me they are just being overly cautious. its two-inch gas main that broke. pg&e is should recollect off the gas and they are here to make the repair which th

this is video from patterson, new jersey. watch as this family takes on a rescue. this was a scene repeated over and over again in so many parts of new jersey, new york state and the state of vermont. meanwhile the entire town of fairfield is under lockdown. this used to be a shopping mall. hurricane irene literally washing that out. scenes like these -- this one is passable. be cautious when you drive through there because that can stall your car and ruin all of it. you got the back on? martha: we did. but so many folks did not. it continues in so many areas where nobody thought they would be dealing with this storm. you can see the situation is devastating. you have got nine rivers overflowing their banks across the state of new jersey. officials are warning they could crest in the next four hours. you have got 600,000 homes still in the dark. >> i'm in shock. i can't believe it, really. bill: the governor, chris christie is warning people in new jersey to boil your water because it may not be safe to drink. rick leventhal is in little falls new jersey. what are

ambassador to egypt ann patterson unacceptable.overnment run newspaper called her antiislamic and said her mission in egypt is to spread chaos. >> and still head, corporate america's reaction to volume tilt on wall street. >> and michael finney is taking your consumer questions and we have links on the top of our home page. >> this is not happening. dear, lord. i made a horrible mistake. >> and comic relief. wall street stumbles through another week. >>> a live look from east bay camera taking a look at the bay bridge. kind of a hazy afternoon. spencer will have the forecast in just a few minute autos some of the country's biggest companies preparing for the worst. wall street becomes bumpier. the frornz the selloff in our after the bell report. >> yikes. another rollercoaster ride on wall street. markets in a free fall and the dow down almost 520 points, closing at the lowest level since september, 010. nasdaq and s and p posting hoses of their own. why all of this selling? traders tell me there is a recession staring the economy

the storm has been blamed for 42 death autos in patterson, new jersey workers are still rescuing peopleanded by flooding and they carried this baby across the wood bood this morning. crews have carried at least 500 people to a nearby college. >> and there is record keepers say once done this, will likely be the second largest rain storm in more than a century. but with this destruction comes beauty. take a look at this impressive water fall. >> that is pretty. you want to talk about bad timing. fema says the money used to help people hit by disasters is almost gone. >> janet napolitano talked about the problem today. >> a thousand people are still living in emergency shelters and waiting to hear if homes made it. she says fema is putting a hold on long term projects like rebuilding roads and schools so people can get immediate disaster assistance. >> so if you're qualified for assistance out of a tornado that happened in the spring or flooding in north dakota and this late spring, that continues. this means that all individuals claims will be funded. >> and there have been 10 separate b