this is in upstate new york. it's in a small town called cranesville. d the new york thruway and caused quite a bit of damage. trees down, power lines out. some people were possibly trapped but we don't know if they have been injured. we'll continue to follow the story as the severe weather moves across for tonight. we still do have a severe thunderstorm watch. looks like it did just expire at the top of the hour. we'll see strong storms move in. we could see flooding so keep in mi mind. travel delays have been extensive today. having departure delays over an hour in newark and philadelphia with delays around 25 minutes. dallas and houston because of the strong winds. it will be white knuckling on the roads. the wind is from the north. you will feel it on the roadways. impacts on i-10, 20 and 45. because of the fires ongoing. the cold front coming with rain and thunderstorms. new orleans, heavy rain, coastal flooding and downpours in the morning because of lee. number two is atlanta, the heavy rain, the busiest airport in the world will be trouble in the

she's just graduated with an english degree from a college in upstate new york.ollege was really good for me, you know, 'cause i wasn't so far away from mommy that i felt kind of panicked about it, 'cause i am very close to her. most weekends, caitlin makes the 180-mile round trip to visit her mother. - hi, mommy. - caitlin, how are you? - i missed you. - oh, me too. i love you. come in. what i would really like to do is you, brian, and myself go away for, like, a little vacation like we used to do. caitlin: you look down your entire life -- my middle school graduation, my sweet 16, my high school graduation, my college graduation, possibly getting married, possibly having kids, like, daddy should be there for all of it. now he's not. everywhere he should be, he's not. thomas: we wouldn't let him get any closer, but his friend is the one he had the closest bond to, so that was the best link and easiest part of our negotiations. even when he speaks, it's, like, i can't, like, i don't know, like, it's been still, like, ten years. i still quite can't get my head aro

now a small courtroom in upstate new york case with a lot of sensitive information is being shared the two aviation companies are now engaged in a lawsuit over a breach of contract and they are rich more aviation which supplied corporate jets and crews to the u.s. government and private aviation broker sports fly air which organizes flights so the interesting part here is the details of this lawsuit being discussed in court and all of secret cia rendition flights turns out the flights by these aviation companies involved touching down in countries like afghanistan sri lanka libya and pakistan and these companies were picking up and dropping off prisoners and distributing them among secret prisons operated by the sea. around the world all in their private jets all organized. now the over three hundred thousand dollars per flight price tag for the secret flights that's part of the documents for this lawsuit you know what i really find interesting is in the past oh people have attempted to sue the cia the government even the flight companies for rendition the cases have always been put to

it go in upstate in new york it shows the dark final cloud it knocked down trees and this is all oneafter irene caused flooding in the area it touchdown near the state capital of albany m. >> i'll look of the weather nationally bomb the weather in the eastern portion of to stay active buying midweek you can still see a lot of activity into upstate new york and pennsylvania. very active and what they're on the eastern coast we're starting off with a blanket of fog across the bay. your temperatures right now are in the '50s and '60s afternoon highs '70s and '80s ho when.. when. warming to5 degrees in san francisco today when. we may climb into the low 80s in sonoma brut was sure it fairfield week warm up to the upper 80s tomorrow it is going to be hot temperatures in the upper 90s '70s for the coast mostly sunny conditions throughout the workweek time right now 6:47 a.m. >> most trances agencies are on reduced schedules and we are updating that for you bart service does not start until 8:00 a.m. muni service begins at 8:00 a.m. that means noah's serve as for a's train or the dumbarton

new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravity from the mountains pushes the water upwards toward the surface through vertical shafts. these shafts feed the water mains of each neighborhood, which branch into smaller pipes below the streets... feeding into buildings and houses, into the plumbing, and finally, after its long journey, to our faucets.

in upstate new york more than 10,000 people are undermanned torrey evacuation orders in hard hit bingham, the flooding closing the through way. janice dean says this might be a hundred year event we are experiencing. david miller is live in new jersey where flood weary folks can't catch a break. >> reporter: a double whammy. i'm standing in the middle of bridge street in downtown patterson. take a look at the scene. you can see over my shoulder one of the few remaining cars on this street now being towed by that truck. there were a few other vehicles here earlier in the day. all the businesses are shut. the homes that are on this street evacuated. no people. and they are expecting more rain in the next few hours. just out of camera range down the street is the passak river that is expected to crest at a little over 12 feet, which is five feet above flood stage. we have to be mindful of the fact that many of the people in this city are still cleaning up after hurricane irene. there are still people living in homeless shelters. there are still a great deal of debris out on the street that

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new york gov. andrew cuomo. towns and cities in new jersey, upstate new york, vermont, along the places wrecked by floodwaters created by irene. as a consequence, fema's disaster relief fund reportedly has less than $800 million t. what about long-term projects ? eric cantor this week -- the left is jumping over him for saying this -- "when there is a disaster, there is inappropriate for will and we wililii these need to be offset by cuts elsewhere." this has upset a lot people, charles. why? >> if you interpreted as we need office to date, nobody in new jersey will get help -- we need offsets today, nobody in new jersey will get help. that is not what he said. we ought to offset it, the way we offset anything when we are bankrupt. that makes sense to me t. >> we don't offset wars, apparently did the fema money has been appropriated in a somewhat similar fashion to war preparations. i want to say one thing before we get back to fighting this. we spend a lot of time trashing government. all the people involved in this -- government folks, bureaucrats, politicians in the affected state plan to this well, executed well,

it's about the town clerk in upstate new york that we told you about earlier in the broadcast. ing her religious beliefs, she does not want to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. she's been sidestepping the state's new gay marriage law by having a deputy issue licenses, but only by appointment. so there's now a lesbian couple that's accusing this town clerk of violating their civil rights. but she says state law requires noo new york to accommodate her religious beliefs. what does your gut tell you? should the town clerk be fired for not signing marriage licenses and having a deputy do that by appointment only? go to newsnation.msnbc.com. that does it for us. in today for my colleague tamron hall. i'm peter alexander. catch "news nation" right here at 2:00 every weekday on msnbc. martin bashir is up next. and occasionally rejected. with a customized mobile app developed with at&t, jet's food inspectors can share data in real time -- so what used to take two weeks, now takes two hours. faster feedback means better food and happy people. it's a network of possibilities --

a tornado hits upstate new york. cutting right across the interstate and it's alcacaught onon tape. >> oh, my god. tornado crossing the thruway. oh, my god. >>> lee lashes out. the tropical storm soaks louisiana. now floods threaten the entire gulf coast. and high winds fuel fast-moving blazes in east texas. hundreds of homes up in flames. we're on the front lines. >>> crash landing. chaos on the runway as a plane skids out of control. passengers screaming. as fuel goes flying. >>> busted. the teenager faking his way through patient exams, pretending to be a doctor's de. how he finally got caught and how he fooled so many for so long. >>> good hololay morning to all of you. i'm josh elliot here with lara spencer today as george and robin are off on this labor day. having earned at least a day away from us if nothing less. >> you know that saying the inmates are running the asylum, well, you're watching it happen. my son, this morning, i woke up, he's like, why are you going to work? and i said, because uncle josh and

we are expecting an additional flood threat here across parts of upstate new york, even into vermont where severe thunderstorm watches are in effect. those people reeling from irene. we have a big soaker in the southeast. this will be a long impact storm with the cold front moving on through. it will be an ugly mess for millions trying to travel tomorrow. >> that's what i wanted to ask you about. what are we looking at in terms of flight delays. >> like you. >> like me. trying to get home tomorrow from their holiday. >> it's not looking good. we do think there will be rain up and down the eastern seaboard, threat of severe thunderstorms in the southeast. major metropolitan areas, the world's busiest airport in atlanta will likely have delays. up to d.c., new york, boston, everybody in the east going to get in on that. >> thanks a lot, jacqui jeras. >> sorry. >>> president obama heads to an area still trying to recover from hurricane irene. and mr. obama's message to overwhelmed residents is next. >>> this may be the biggest public anti-government protest in israel's history. the issu

scattered showers moving through upstate new york pushing all the way through new england.his is a stuck front, a stalled front that is really going to stay in the forecast at least for the next 24 hours. so with that, temperatures have been on the mild side. no exception this morning. we are starting out in philadelphia this morning at 72. 71 for the current temperature in new york. 64 in hartford. a little bit cooler. 59 out through buffalo. eventually, this cooler air and fall air starts to move into the forecast over the next couple of days. not today. >>> thursday's forecast does show scattered showers up and down the i-95 corridor. again, no the a washout. we could see heavy downpours, especially through this afternoon. with he could see some places where you get the heavy downpour could be 1-2 inches per hour. flash flooding a concern for much of the northeast. back to you, lynn. >> thank you. >>> which tv actresses make the most money and who just bought an $18 million long island mansion? plus, we will tell you who dared to trash the singing ability of lady gaga. y

. >> host: upstate new york. >> guest: upstate new york. i can reach out to the forecast office, have them work with the local television station, because that's a concern that we have. there are a large number of americans have cell phones, other americans have computers, but there's still a significant part that has neither. our job is to get to all americans. >> host: can anybody issue a weather warning, or solely from the national weather service? >> guest: solely from the national weather service. i think this makes sense up. don't want to have various people putting out a warning, then you have conflicting information. so we take great -- make great effort to ensure that we accurately communicate, by modern technology with media so they understand the true nature, the private sector, emergency managers, we use whatever technology that we can to ensure a consistent message goes out, because that confusion can costs lives. it's important for us to recognize that the importance of doing that. >> host: kevin it joining us. willington, nor

was the first year, in 1990, when my brothers and i were invited to perform in the presence in upstate new york for the holiday. it was not a big political thing. it was a holiday. we were just going to go and sing sing christmas carols, do some rap songs, whether we could do to cheer up the brothers that were locked up. we started to do it over and over again. it was only 10 years later and that we began to see ways to use that in a more pro-active way. we would come out of a nightclub in new york city, my brother, my cousin, and i. we had had some experience with the police harassing us on the streets. this particular night, somebody had gotten into a fight, we were probably the only black folks in a white neighborhood the party that they were at, they were playing salsa, marvin gaye, and we were hanging out after the birthday party. we got caught up in a situation where the police had been called for shots fired. we happened to be the only black people there, they got us and put us in jail. that was the first day that you mentioned. the long and short of it is, i was in my second year of law

when we won a special election in one of the most republican districts in the united states in upstate new yorkstole one from us in downstate new york and it's not the end of the world for us just as we stole one from them in upstate new york and it wasn't the end of the world for them. special elections are not predictive, john. let me give you one statistic in 2006 we lost every single competitive special election and democrats won the house of representatives. in 2010, we won every single competitive special election and we lost control of the house of the representatives. they are moments in time. they are not predictive of trends. >> you don't think this means anything, then, just one loss even though democrats have held this seat for 90 years? >> look, it was a tough loss. you know, i wish we had won. i'm not going to minimize it. i'm not going to sugarcoat it -- >> but what happened? >> it was a loss based on a confluence of events, a perfect storm if you will of so many different factors in a particular district on a particular day. and those factors will not be operative in every distr

major flooding has put 20,000 upstate new york residents out on the street. remnants of tropical storm lee drenched the region forcing mandatory evacuations as well as a declaration of a state of emergency by president obama. >>> five inches of rain in six hours was too much for west hartford's drainage system to withstand. roads were turned into rivers leaving numerous streets closed and several motorists stranded. >>> two days of rainfall also did major damage in virginia. six inches of rain wreaked havoc on a commuter parking lot. several cars were submerged in water as high as four feet. >>> elsewhere, a wildfire in washington has scorched 2,000 acres and counting. so far the blaze has destroyed 18 structures and forced the evacuation of approximately 300 homes. given the dry conditions, firefighters are expected to fight an uphill battle containing that blaze. >>> finally, although 400 miles off shore, hurricane katia was still making waves on north carolina beaches. when they weren't wiping out, surfers took advantage of the unusually high waves. and lo

a tornado carved a path of destruction through upstate new york, leaving decimated homes and damaged landscape in its wake. national weather service officials confirmed the touchdown but have not yet determined its classification. ground crews are expected to conduct surveys, which will help estimate the strength of the tornado. >>> two people died in a plane crash that ignited a fast-moving brush fire in the hills of eastern california. according to officials, the fire quickly spread only moments after the cessna single-engine plane went down, triggering the evacuation of at least 100 homes. the fire has already charred nearly 4,000 acres and still rages out of control. >>> and finally, in north carolina, a new fitness class is replacing a good sweat with getting a little shut-eye. sounds good to me. participants in what is being called air napping, climb into a hammock and lie in a suspended position for 30 minutes where they're able to recharge and get rejuvenated. now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's meteorologist todd santos. he has your weather channel f

instead irene set her sights on upstate new york.s split into two and sent into the most devastated counties. >> they had tremendous flooding ebb us. there were hundreds of roads out, tens of bridges, 60 to 80 bridges out. >> reporter: for two weeks, firefighters provided logistical support. >> in a catastrophe like this, it's easy for any community to be overwhelmed, particularly a rural community. >> it's what we signed up to do many, many years ago, we stood in line to get these jobs. helping people is what it's all about. whether it's here in our home state or home county or across the country, even outside of the united states. it's what we do. >> the east bay incident management team was formed 12 years ago. and in that time they've learned what works and how to be prepared. >> new york did the right thing and got the call out ahead of time. we got there ahead of time, so we were able to go right to work when we hit the ground. >> reporter: in oakland, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. >>> coming up next at 11:00, we have stan

gives you a sense of the devastation that has taken place not only here in new jersey but in upstate new york and vermont and a whole range of states that were affected by hurricane irene. i want to thank governor cristie, mayor jones, the entire congressional delegation that has coordinated in an unprecedented way to try to deal with this crisis. and part of what i think has helped to avert even worse tragedies and greater loss of life is because of the extraordinary responsiveness and far sighted thinking of state, local and federal officials. i'm very proud of the work that fema has done not only from our central agency but more importantly the folks locally here on the ground who have been coordinating with the emergency management teams here in new jersey. i want to thank the red cross for their extraordinary responsiveness. we have seen a huge outpouring of volunteers, private sector getting involved in trying to do what they can to help communities that have been hard hit. the main message that i have for all of the residents not only of new jersey but all those communities that have b

this touched down in upstate new york just outside of albany. no one was hurt but several homes were damaged. >> although it has not been confirmed its roster is likely to blame for this damage in alabama. >> i heard pump wind. it was a hell of a wind. >> hope this year set a record for extreme weather. there had been $10 billion plus national disasters since the start of the year. in the past decade only to those and they came close with eight of them. so far to dazzle of and we have had a deadly ground hog day blizzard in the midwest, no less than five operas of tornadoes in april and may, the worst killing 141 people in joplin, missouri. flooding the mississippi and missouri rivers. the ongoing drought and heat wave has caused $5 billion so far. hurricane eye ring cost at least 7 billion. the government will release its august stand but summer to dazzle of and is expected to be the warmest, record. cities from newark to amaryllis texas set all-time high temperature records. in some cases records going back to the '30s. the bottom line, this y

. >>> a close encounter for a storm chaser in upstate new york. watch. >> i'm a little freaked out because i'm pretty sure i just saw a tornado form across the freeway. >> a tornado touches down near albany last night. we'll have more details when we go cross country after the break. >>> checking stories cross country now. >> i can't believe what i'm seeing. i can't believe what i'm seeing. >> a storm chaser shot this video of a tornado in update new york. the twister struck near albany last night. it crossed interstate 90 at one point, damaged homes, uprooted trees and tore roofs off some of those homes but no reports of any serious injuries. >>> police in phoenix are searching for a container full of explosives that apparently were stolen from the airport. they were conducting a police training exercise friday when a cooler, packed with explosive tubes, commonly used in the mining industry, went missing. good news is that police say the explosives cannot be detonated without additional equipment and some degree of expertise. >>> police in texas

. >>> a tornado carved a path of destruction through upstate new york, leaving decimated homes, and damaged landscape in its wake. national weather service officials confirmed the touchdown but have not yet determined its classification. ground crews are expected to conduct surveys, which will help estimate the strength of the tornado. >>> two people died in a plane crash that ignited a fast-moving brushfire in the hills of eastern california. according to officials, the fire quickly spread, only moments after the cessna single-engine plane went down, triggering the evacuation of at least 100 homes. the fire has already charred nearly 4,000 acres, and still rages out of control. >>> and finally, in north carolina, a new fitness class is replacing a good sweat with getting a little shut-eye. participants in what is being called air napping climb into a hammock and lie in a suspended position for 30 minutes, where they are able to recharge, and get rejuvenated. i like that. and now a look at your national weather with todd santos. that's the kind of wrorkout i could get my head around. >> esp

and the last thing that the residents here of pat earnson or the residents of vermont or upstate new york need is washington politics getting in the way of us making sure that we're doing what we can to help communities that have been badly affected. so again, i want to thank federal, state, local, officials who have been working around the clock to respond to this crisis. we know it could have been worse. but we should not underestimate the heartache that's going through a lot of communities and affecting a lot of these families. and we want to make sure that we're there to help and i want to make sure that even after the cameras are gone and attention is somewhere else, that fema and the federal officials continue to work with our local officials to make sure that we're doing the right thing. all right? thank you very much everybody. we're going to make sure that the resources are here. >> this runs about an hour and ten minutes. the numbers are way up. it turns out. it was actually quite close but the winner is at 56% peterberg ven and a very respectable 44% of the debate. ok. with tha

not interesting, but i wanted to be in new england and i wanted to be in upstate new york. and i had to go to oklahoma, of course. and i wanted to be in the northwest and i wanted to interview a native alaskan and i decided to end with a hawaiian and i interviewed a few people in california write live, but they're all actually from other places. not from -- not from my ..d pretty well known but i wanted to have a combination of tribes that were well-known and unknown. and men and women and different ages so it went from 24, 26 to 84 years of age. and i just wanted as much variety as i could, people who lived on reservations, people who did not. people who were very sophisticated and people who were very rural so i put those all in the mix. >> well, i would like to thank allison owings and i want to assure everyone that when you have an opportunity to read this book, it's true oral history. it's the native american voices that you will be hearing. and we thank you for being our guest today. >> thank >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs use the online. tight the o

evacuated along the susquehanna river with one benefits of lee also brought heavy rain to an upstate new yorkresident signed up a declaration of emergency. many residents are pumping water out of their basements several school had to close for the entire week because of the flooding >> time now 6:20 a.m. when one-yeait looks like the weathes gonna be nice for this weekend >> this is a live look from our mt. tam camera this is what we see every morning we expect the fog to pull back that will give the son of little head start to warm us up. a quick look of the fog and is widespread it is only impacting your visibility in santa rosa amba. once the fog will back we will see it warming ina a.m. when will be holding on to 505 '60s and '70s bobbing up in the valley and the '80s start pushing and one and then the '90s by the 3:00 p.m. walkem. and what that's a story of that tape were pictures here is a look of your high temperatures neighborhood by neighborhood one. ohis have if this film appears seven day forecasting higher perelman to a slight chance at a 20 percent chance of the irish your activi

it caused flooding and wind damage in upstate new york. some people still can't return to their homes and thousands still don't have power. the governor toured the hardest hit areas promising aid to farmers. tomorrow president obama will see the damage in new jersey. he declared disaster areas there and in four other states to help get federal aid flowing. >>> a warning for bay area beachgoers this weekend. a storm in the southern hemisphere is sistering a big swell such as these. our crews shot this video earlier this week. conditions are also expected to effect other south facing beaches and the beaches below coast and wild cat campground. >>> videos of a grass fire. fire departments were out in force to knock back the fire on alamo hill with a helicopter, airplane, bulldozers, fire engines and hand crews. it burned at least 40 acres before it was brought under control. firefighters say the blaze required more than firefighters on foot. >> it's steep as you can see. it's mostly hose, you have to drag the hose up the hill and it's very dif

more than 100,000 people in pennsylvania and upstate new york are ordered to evacuate as floodwaters rise. michelle miller is on the scene. and remembering 9/11. the day the center of american military might was caught defenseless. >> i was a dead guy sitting there and there was nothing i could do about it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. there is late-breaking news tonight. there is a major power outage in the west. there will be more about that in just a moment but first another important story. law enforcement is telling us about a possible terror threat in connection with the tenth anniversary of 9/11 coming this sunday. homeland security correspondent bob orr has been checking into this and, bob, what have you learned so far? >> reporter: well, scott, u.s. officials are concerned. as you say, they're checking out a potential terror threat which they describe as "credible and specific but unconfirmed." sources have been telling us the int

. >>> and there'e'even more weather trouble in upstate new york, still struggling to e recover from hurricane irene, ich hit last week. this twister touched down west of albany last week, traveling along the mohawk river, tearing off roofs, blowing out windows and damaging more than 2 dozen homes. >>> in japan, the worst typhoon to strike that country in seven years. this deadly storm delivered heavy rain, triggering mudslides and killing at least 34 people. with dozens more missing. in a country still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami six months ago. >>> back in this country, there's little to celebrate this labor day for the millions of americans desperately looking for a job. 14 million americans are out of work. the unemployment rate is stuck at a stubbornly high 9.1%. president obama will unveil a jobs plan thursday he says will include bipartisan ideas from the past. at times the tone at the detroit labor council rally he attended today was anything but coupkum ya. abc's jim sciutto is at the got some straight shooters. teamamers' james hoffak l reblan rhetoric even further, accus

northeastern u.s on thursday with showers and thunderstorms mostly targeting the mid-atlantic and upstate new york. meanwhile... most of the midwest will enjoy another dry day with partly cloudy skies. at the same time, above average temperatures will still be dominating the west coast. down in south america... southeastern brazil is expecting some evening showers on thursday with highs around 23 degrees. buenos aires and santiago... will be looking at mostly to partly cloudy skies as well. into europe... light rain will pass through moscow sometime during thursday. london, berlin and rome have partly cloudy skies instore. but paris and madrid... will stay under clear skies with abundant sunshine. lastly in africa... dakar finally has some beautiful weather in the picture, you'll get to enjoy some spectacular sunshine on thursday, so enjoy it while you can. but light rain is still ongoing in addis ababa. other than that... most of the continent will enjoy the usual sunny weather. that's all for today's weather. have a great evening and i'll see you back here tomorrow.

susquehanna river northward, you know, you lack at places like binghamton and johnson city and upstate new york, do we know how much higher the river there is expected to rise? . >> reporter: exactly, and they are seeing the runoff from upstate new york. one of the good things, the rain has pretty much stopped here. it's not really raining that hard right now. that was one sign that officials were happy to see, but, yeah, they are very concerned about that runoff from upstate new yo york. >> want to jump in? >> mary, i don't know what the officials are telling you, watching the xwaujs of the susquehanna, binghamton where the floodwater is going over the flood walls but that won't flood the city proper but in one area where the flood was supposed to stop at 43.3, it's now 43.7. it's over what the forecast was, and i believe that's probably why the officials moved you out of the way. it's not an exact science on how high this river is going to go. >> reporter: absolutely. >> just because it's supposed to be three inches over the top of the wall, doesn't mean it couldn't be four inches. >> reporte

blocked by the cia for years has finally made it to the public record for most small loss to upstate new york and like i said yesterday the more we learn about the cia's extraordinary rendition procedures and what we can work to make sure the government's intelligence arm stays in line and future. now published today the washington post takes a good look at the cia and how it's changed over the last ten years house gone from an embarrassed and seemingly infinite intelligence agency that failed to stop the nine eleven attacks to now a paramilitary killing machine agency has about thirty predator and reaper drones at its disposal and is working feverishly somewhere in the arabian peninsula to construct a new base and for those rooms according to the washington post the drone program has killed more than two thousand militants and civilians since two thousand and one the cia's counterterrorism center which on nine eleven have three hundred employees now has more than two thousand on staff and even with the amber analytic branch about twenty percent of the analysts are now quote targets scanning

in upstate new york they are providing a life down to a metal bar all n.y. >> what ever people need we have to bring in >> interest in vermont were powering up generators residents are still in shock of the devastation irene left behind >> i shall set right now all of this village is my home i never thought i would season like this >> washed out roads and president have all made it places a and accessible except by foot to buy a boat or a tv >> i cannot believe this happened >> 193 year-old remembers that hid in 1938 >> this is much worse. >> now the massive oklahoma a wildfire that has doe destroyed dozens of homes 3,000 a. have been destroyed and there are mandatory mass evacuation the cause of this place is still unknown this morning north texas another wild fire is burning this when 25 percent contained this is a six to 200 a. fire hundreds of more homes are threatened it is 60 mi. west of dallas this is the worst season of fire in texas some >> their dealings off with some serious heat in texas and are whether we will see how warm it is expected to get today >> we're starting to g

that i respected, the 21st congressional district in new york state, much about the capital region and mow hack valley and scoherry valley of upstate new york have been dubbed recently by brookings institute to be the hottest territory, the strongest hub, the most active region in the country for green-collared jobs growth. that's a feather in our cap. if someone wants to see investment happenings it's there in the capital region of new york. it took a partnership with academia and state government and federal government, yes, but it also was a partnership with the private sector where great investments were made by the private sector in this high-tech agenda, in this science and tech agenda. nanoscience, semiconductor, and now that is somewhat clustering in its concept to draw more and more startups and entrepreneurial efforts and workers who are clustering in this way, academia getting invested in the research aspects. i mention that because the innovation economy is something that receives high focus and an ordinary amount of attention made in the president's speech. i agree with his assessment that whoever wins this global race