thank you very much. i m brooke baldwin. i want to pass along a quick note on an announcement from mitt romney. the former republican governor of massachusetts will lay out his plan to put americans to work. he ll do that a little later this hour in nevada. we, of course, will bring that to you live. first shall we re working right now to get more details on this deadly shooting that happened earlier today in nevada. here s what we know right now. a man reportedly entered this ihop restaurant, we re talking approximate carson city, nevada, shot three people dead, wounded six others and then turned the gun on himself and shot himself. last we heard, the shooter is not dead. but is not expected to survive. a police spokesperson says at least two of the people killed in that restaurant were military members and they were there in uniform. no identity kret on that gunman. we re making calls and if we get someone on the line, we ll have it live on cnn. i want to move to texas wh
worth has destroyed about 30 homes already. it threatens many more. this is so big, the fire is so big and intense that firefighters haven t been able to contain any of that. right now crews are getting people out of its way and trying to protect the homes still standing. the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres. air tankers are expected to drop water on the fire today. it is unclear how this fire started, but the epic drought and the heat may have made this the worst fire season in texas history. oklahoma is suffering, too. a fire near oklahoma city has forced people within a two square mile area out of their homes. it s going to be another busy day for rescuers in vermont. several hundred people are still trapped by floodwaters. irene with its punishing wind and rain turned some communities into islands, cut off from civilization. the national guard has been dropping supplies by helicopter. at one point you couldn t get into or out of 13 towns. authorities hope all of them wi
northeast are desperate to escape the flooding and the damage unleashed by hurricane irene. we re tracking the rescues and the danger right now. and we ll put the arrest of the uncle in a dui charge. this hour, and whether they matter to most american. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. up first this hour, a very tough political debate over national security that will unfold between president obama and his republican challenger, whoever that might be. the commander in chief dep and it s no coincidence that war and foreign policy are getting more attention on the campaign trail with the ten-year milestone of the 9/11 attacks only a few days away. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. he s watching all of this unfold. we know the economy will be issue number one. but national security will be a key debating point for the democratic and republican candidates. that s right. it s flareed up recently with libya and with the killing of osama bin laden. it s still import
41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i ll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we ll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there s talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we re looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? we don t need to be worried at this point in time. although, this may be the nicest tropical storm, i hope, that we ever see ever. you consider what we just showed you, all the pictures in oklahoma, that s really, other than the fire, that s what all of texas looks like. completely tinder ground. if we can get a 40 miles per hour storm over the gulf of mexico and run into louisiana and texas and spread ra
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