hong kong. the new york police department says it is taking additional precautions after the new threat tied to the 9/11 anniversary this weekend. it includes more staffing, more bomb-sniffing dogs and checkpoints across the city. the critical final report on the death of this iraqi civilian in british military custody was released on thursday. the inquiry found baja mussa was brutally beaten and possibly kicked to death to british troops while he was restrained. he was being held as a suspected insurgent in iraq. interpol has been asked to issue an urgent notice for the arrest of moammar gadhafi. he s wanted for alleged crimes against humanity. much of normal life has been shut down in the southwestern united states. a million people are in the dark in the states of california and arizona and across the border in mexico. authorities are scrambling to restore electric service and have not yet found the cause of the power outages. traffic signals, airports and trains and
we begin from drought stricken texas where people have died as a result the wildfires. a 20-year-old woman and her 18-month-old daughter were killed when flames took their mobile home. one is now threatening 1,000 homes. central texas dealing with the worst fire season ever. a record 3 1/2 million acres have burned. tropical depression lee has gotten weaker, but it is unloading lots of rain as it marches north from the gulf. louisiana and mississippi have seen flooding and power outages already. there was a lot of concern about new orleans. but the mayor says the city is okay. even though we ve got nearly a foot of rain. some people in south alabama believe the storm sent them a tornado. i didn t hear it. all i heard ws wind. if it was wind, it was a held of a wind. the lights went out, they came back on and then everything opened up. it was like a machine gun going off. lee s leftovers could dump more rain on upstate new york, new jersey and vermont. the last places th
hunkered down for the weekend. about 14,000 active duty and national guard troops had been put on standby. that s the view of the storm from the white house. suzanne kennedy has a closer look to the folks who live in the district of columbia and the situation there. in fact, suzanne you ve moved since last we talked. where are you right now? this is 39th and edmonds. this is the first tree that fell. cnn sunday morning, coming to you early. suzanne malveaux joining us for this coverage of irene. thank you for our affiliate wjla there. we re picking it up and will be with you for the next several hours. hurricane irene continues its northern march up the eastern seaboard. irene is still a category 1 storm, pushing 75 miles an hour winds or so. the latest track has the eye of the hurricane 15 miles southeast of atlantic city, new jersey, heading toward new york metro area. very soon. in delaware at least 40,000 people are now without power. just this morning, president ob
water. if another low-lying neighborhoods now under mandatory evacuation orders, mayor bloomberg tonight saying the city transportation system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports in danger of flooding. they re being closed arriving flights starting at noon. now this is what they re concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. but they might see a version of it in about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track, isha. we re still at 100 miles per hour. we re still forecast to get slight
hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as it s making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the carolina shoreline for the past several hours. that is where, again, it it has officially made landfall. the storm surge there is expected to take a toll on outer banks and coastal communities. concern shared all the way up and down the east coast right now. more so in cities you can imagine that aren t used to dealideal ing with hurricanes, like new york city. been some time since they ve had to deal with a direct hit from hurricanes. this storm could be head toward parts of lower manhattan, could