destroyed. this didn t end when the wind died down. this was and continues to be a very big deal and water is the reason why. you are looking at where the town of prattsville, new york used to be. parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely. they don t have much to return to. the correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri, after the tornado. she was stranded by rising flood waters. she joins us shortly. still stranded there actually tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto waterlogged ground and full rivers and reservoirs. look at that truck trying to get through the water. the water has to go somewhere. it doesn t care what or who is in the way. this scene in new jersey where big military trucks were even having trouble getting around. from virginia to vermont rivers and streams overflowing. some above record flood levels or soon to be, largely because of flooding damage from hurricane irene could hit $7 billion making it o
days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state of vermont. floodwaters were still cresting there late last night. waters have damaged more than 200,000 in their communities. intense flooding wrecked the town of pratsville in the new york skill mountains. it took crews four trips and a helicopter to get a man out. a reporter told cnn that she can t get out of prattsville now. we ll give you an idea of the flooding so you understand why we were trapped here. if you can follow me over here. can you see wher
who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we re hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn t get away. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnn s amber lyon joins us from brattleboro in vermont. set the scene a little bit, amber, for what s going on. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, out here, wolf, had i been standing out here earlier yesterday, i would be completely under water. i want to come here and show you this brook right here, this is pretty much representative of what s across this state. this is wet stone brook, flowing more like a river now. it s about four feet wider than usual and look over her
urj urging women he said, trained in fighting, to get out into the streets and fight the rebels. so is he acknowledging this is coming to an end? no. the last contact anyone had with him, he was still urging people it fight and also the pokesperson for the regime was saying essentially the same thing. though he was very critical of nato. blaming nato for the whole thing. saying there were thousands and thousands of soldiers out there still in support of gadhafi. willing to fight. but so far we haven t seen that happening. and there have been reports of still pockets of clashes in tripoli. there s been no visible evidence of that. in fact, what we are seeing more and more as the night progress says more celebration. not only in tripoli but across the country. chris? michelle kozinski, thanks very much. one of the sons with a was the leader of the 32nd brigade.
last three day says most of the military and police and intelligence units he used to maintain power have now shattered. the key to me was earlier when the 32nd brigade abandoned the fight and fled back into tripoli and then of course later on the security service in tripoli, that general, formally surrendered. so the immediate problem, chris sb is you ve got a city of two million people. thousands were murdered or tortured by gadhafi loyalists. and now, there s no police force and no order, the most likely outcome is a combination of vengeance and criminality. but i think there will be a there is such euphoria that we are seeing among these people who have been subjected to this crazy character for 41 years, there s a lot of goodwill that