the program which is going to affect a lot of people in this country. no doubt about that. mexico s government is taking some heat for its response to a pair of deadly storms. still plenty of flooding from the one-two punch of the tropical storm manuel and hurricane ingrid. the official death toll standing at 100, but it doesn t include those unaccounted for in a village devastated by a mudslide. critics say the government didn t do enough to warn people about the storms while focusing on celebrations of independence day in mexico. and the white house isn t ruling out a meeting between the president and president of iran would take place next week when beth are attending the united nations general assembly. an american president has not met with an iranian head of state since jimmy carter met the shah back in 19 7. 1977. no meeting is scheduled, but the obama administration spokesperson says that it is a possibility. syria faces a deadline tomorrow to reveal the location of i
stranded with nowhere to go, no food and no supplies. there s no roads, no planes. physically no way to get out of acapulco. at least 80 people have been killed and stores are being looted. some families have been bussed to other airports as the military and red cross try to reach as many victims as possible with aid. tired but trying to get home best as possible. reporter: officials have reached a small a village damaged by a massive landslide where they re now searching for 58 missing people, and mexico can t seem to get a break from the severe weather. not only do we have manuel on our hands, we had ingrid a couple of days ago that impacted the eastern part of the country and we have a system in the southern gulf of mexico which could be our next new storm and if it does get named, it will be named jerry. reporter: while the danger lingers, the rain from these storms is welcome news in southern texas where cattle
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much more deadly. this morning hurricane manuel is moving up the pacific coast of mexico. 80 deaths are now being blamed on manuel and hurricane ingrid. there s dozens of people missing after a massive landslide in a small village there. let s go up to bill karins. where is this hurricane headed most the moisture is heading into the u.s. we have our disaster billion dollar weather disaster in colorado. this storm continues to move just along the coast. not over with yet. the eye of the hurricane is off the mexican coastline and has stalled out. i think the devastation is going to be bad. take us a day or two to get those images. some of that rain is starting to spread into west texas and eventually bring additional rains all through areas of the southeast this weekend. also watching that area of interest in the southern gulf of
national guard air rescuers resumed yesterday, seven days after the drenching rain finally let up. two killer storms that sandwiched mexico have killed at least 34 people. much of the country is still getting soaked this morning by what is left of hurricane ingrid and tropical storm manuel. the heavy rain triggered mudslides that swallowed up homes, cars and buses. main airport in acapulco shut down. 40,000 tourists had no way out. look at the weather. heavy rain from the mexican storms will push in to south texas this morning. scattered showers and thunderstorms through much of florida and georgia. chilly morning in the northeast. a wet day for nebraska and kansas in the upper midwest. thunderstorms throughout the northwest. 60s in the pacific northwest. 80s in the rockies. mostly 60s from the twin cities to new york. 90s from dallas to new orleans. it is a gloomy day in pittsburgh no matter what, all because of last night s performance by the steelers on monday night football