are you kidding me? i know, fastest man in the world almost taken out. when we were down in a hurricane, i actually did that to bill karins while he was reporting on the hurricane. that had nothing to do with anything. he did the whole squat hibehd me and mika pushed me. all eyes on erika. only a tropical storm. the island of dough minutica got hit hard. they had 12 inches of rain in a very short period of time. the island is very flood prone and mudslides are a problem too. four fatalities. there say couple people still missing. a lot of cleanup just from a very weak tropical storm. so what happened overnight? erika didn t get stronger. wind are at 45 miles per hour. it s just passed puerto rico heading for the dominican republic. mostly good news in the forecast trend for the united states. for the dominican republic and puerto rico, a lot of rain today, possibility for flash flooding. the reason i say good news for florida and southeast, more land interaction means a weake
iana know you wanted me to make a snowball for you. this is a pretty hard one already made for me. i m diagnose. i saw your snowball earlier. you can do better than that next time. just fell apart before the conditions got a little bit nastier. it s a winter wonderland. a ski resort in vermont reports 20 inches of snow to kids who got skis are enjoying that. that s a great point. ski resorts had a hard year last year. thank you very much. now arkansas, where up to 140,000 people are without power and could be for some time. y vet with with the arkansas department of emergency management arkansas got hit hard. central arkansas especially. what are the conditions now? what is the state of the roads and then the airports? the roads are mostly clear on
now a mighty nor easter, packing furious winds and dumping more snow on already treacherous roads. we tried to get out of the parking spot in front of my apartment, and it s we re spinning in circles. reporter: the storm system also spawned dozens of rare december tornados that slammed into towns along the gulf coast. mobile, alabama, got hit hard. wide swaths of the port city plunged into darkness. the power went out, and we could hear it coming and we ran and jumped in the bathtub. reporter: churches, homes, schools, crumbled in the furious onslaught. you forgot that it was christmas for a while. reporter: tens of thousands of airline travelers across the u.s. were told to forget about getting to their destinations on schedule. the frustration was even felt in one cockpit. an american airlines pilot talking to his passengers were clearly fed up after waiting nearly five hours to take off. decisions are being made way above our heads by people that obviously, in my hum
pictures, and live pictures now, and he is going to be bringing in a jobs pro to tackle the crisis, and we will have that live from the white house. you are looking at the rose garden there, and we will bring it live when it happens. the president is set to nominate allan krueger to chair the council of economic advisers, and he is a professor at princeton and served as assistant treasury secretary until next year. and stewards of hurricane irene are expected to cleanout to day. it is not what many predicted, but irene did leave a severe scar. the storm took 24 lives and more than 4 million homes lost power, and $10 billion in estimates of cost. talking about hurricane irene, i want the make sure that the folks have the support they need as theys a s.e. s assess a the damages from the storm. that will continue in the days ahead. lit take time it will take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude and the effects are still being felt in the country in new england and
the river. and in some of to cit the ci they are waiting for it to dry, and what is it looking like in tunica? well, in the cutoff where those 200 homes are, it is catastrophic, but in tunica, there are some businesses flooded, but not as safe as downtown memphis and not as big obviously. and in some case tunica is a feeder city into the memphis market, and some folks who live here work in memmemphis, and nos badly affected as per capita go, but those who are hit, got hit hard and those who are in shelters from tunica and memphis are in this area, because their homes are completely flooded. and rob marciano, knee-deep in water there. thank you, rob. when there is flooding the problems are not just on land. barge traffic get s messed up, too. we have a report from one of the barges being pushed downstream