thank you for waking up with us. i m live in new york. let s start in texas, shall we? it s a dry, scorched burning place this morning. its wildfire problems are getting worse. more than 60 new fires broke out over the weekend. the biggest and maybe the most dangerous is the one you re looking at in bastrop county, 30 miles from downtown usa. p let s go to atlanta and check in with rob marciano. we re going to get to chris welch who s in texas just a bit. i wanted to talk to you first about the dry conditions in texas and if they re going to get any relief from mother nature. we don t see a whole lot coming down the pipe there, carol, and what s the good news today, is that lee, or what s left over of lee is pulling off towards the north and east and that really, the past two days, has what s been causing the biggest problem ironically. we were hoping to get lee s moisture over there. it didn t. it missed it to the east. it got the back side, the wrap around dry air winds t
you re a democrat or a republican, maybe not so sure. it s a good opportunity for you to hear from these candidates in extended form as they offer a presentation, answer some questions. the republican congresswoman, michele bachmann of minnesota is here. the georgia businessman herman cain, the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. the texas congressman and libertarian ron paul and the former massachusetts governor, mitt romney all appearing at senator demint s at this forum in south carolina. missing, the texas governor, rick perry. at the last minute he decided to go home because of wildfires affecting his state. we ll get straight live to the event in just a moment. first, let s get a preview in a sense of how much this matters in a very busy september. this event here today, three presidential debates. including a tea party debate presented by cnn on october 12th, tampa, florida. yes labor day 2011 but a big impact had month on the presidential race for 2012. let s
i was lucky i didn t die of a heart attack. reporter: former president clinton, like too many people, was busy. and for years he ignored warning signs from his heart. but in 2004, during an exhausting book tour, there was something different. i had a real tightness in my chest when i was getting off the airplane and the only time i d had it unrelated to exercise. reporter: we re here outside new york presbyterian hospital. in just a couple of hours, former president bill clinton is scheduled to undergo surgery. so i immediately went down to our local hospital and they did a test, they said you got real problems. they hustled me down to columbia presbyterian and they confirmed the determination that i had serious blockage and needed the surgery. reporter: doctors immediately knew options were limited. the 58-year-old clinton needed to have his chest opened, his heart stopped, and surgery performed. there s no medical treatment for reversing the obstructions that
handing out bottled water and clean up supplies. ma am, a response i got from a viewer when i talked to you earlier, was the cell phone app that people could download this app and find shelters. red cross shelters. describe that for me again. where they can get it and exactly what it is used for. we have a free application for iphones and ipads. it is a shelter app. you can download it from itunes. it will show you where all of the shelters are that we have open. if you are in a location and you feel you need to get to a shelter, pull up an app and get to safety as soon as possible. that is useful information this morning. we will channel that out to our viewers. kate meier, we appreciate you giving us the update. we hope we can continue to call on you as the storm makes landfall. we are at the bottom of the hour here now. i was not supposed to be here in studio with you this weekend for this newscast. i was supposed to be in washington d.c. we were taking our show on
here s what hurricane irene looked like when it hit the bahamas. new yorkers might see it here and soon. here is the view as irene began moving up the eastern seaboard, and as it did emergency plans started to kick in. airlines began cancelling flights. hospitals moving patients. and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg issued the first evacuation orders in city history for low-lying areas, including the one, the area that we are standing in tonight. and for the first time in modern memory, a hurricane warning is in effect for new york city. meantime as we speak, north carolina s outer banks are getting hit. we ve got reporters all around the region. in a moment we ll check with correspondent on the ground there. i want to begin with chad myers who just got his hands on a fresh update from the national hurricane center. chad, what have you learned? i ve learned now that storm has turned to the north-northeast. that is the continuation of the right-hand turn, anderson, that