hello, everybody. i am randi kaye. we re glad you are with us. we start off with the victims of irene. for those of you who think irene was a dud, well, tell that to the families of the 21 people who died in that storm and the people that lost their homes and the estimated $10 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at either. irene may not have been as bad as expected in some areas, but worst in others. vermont, much of the state is under water. a short time ago president obama declared a state of emergency making vermont elvauable for disaster relieve. it will take time to recover from the storm of this magnitude. the affects are being felt across much of the country. in new england and states like vermont where there has been an enormous amount of flooding. the responses continues and i want to make sure fema and other agencies are doing everything they can to help people on the ground. check out the video of vermont. it shows the power of irene destroying one of the st
and returned to libya on compassionate grounds. he is still alive. i think we have to have a fair trial. jack and kathleen flynn lost their son j.p., who was returning home with other students after a semester abroad. they said they believed always gadhafi was behind the bombing. it s a hard scenario to go through life knowing someone murdered your child and no justice was done. burt s brother tom was killed in the bombing. he wants the u.s. to be directly involved in removing the libyan dictator from power. his just reward should be capital punishment. but if he s removed from power, that from me would mean our loved ones didn t vie in vain. that s why our inaction is frustrating and irritating to me immensely. wolf, you heard secretary of state clinton said she reached out to the fbi and justice department. a spokesman says the investigation into the bombing
fish camp in the afternoon. five people, including former us senator ted stevens died in the crash. four people survived. so far the nstb has not determined the cause. a cancer expert who examines the lockerbie bomber before his release from a british prison says doctors should have been more cautious about the prisoner s chances of survival. al-megrahi has prostate cancer. and experts believed he only had three months to live when he was returned to libya on compassionate grounds. new york city now cut off all funding to dominicana, a charity supported by charlie rangel, the same time the department of investigation opens a probe into the group s finances. since it started in 1985 the group received 66 million dollars in city contracts and currently has close to $77,000 in its bank account. back in june, rangel signed off on a 2.6 million dollar taxpayer funded grant to the
poisonous smog has returned to moscow. this after smoke from wildfires blanketed the city earlier this week. doubling the city s death rate. and the cancer expert saying he should have been more careful when saying this man, the lockerbie bomber had only three months to live. that helped lead to the terrorist release to libya on compassionate grounds. now he may have much longer to live: the catholic shrine at lords in southern france reopening after a bomb threat forced thousands of visitors to leave. the spring water there shed healing waters. eric: imagine being able to measure your risk of coming down with diabetes or cancer a do it yourself genetics test claim to predict if you are at risk of getting these diseases. new dna kits could be the new frontier of medicine. also kicking up a lot of controversy.
four u.s. senators are demanding an investigation into the release of the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing, the convict was freed last year because doctors said he was dying from cancer. the man was allowed to return to libya on compassionate grounds because a doctor had given him only three months to live. new jersey senator said the terrorist maze have been released under false pretenses. 270 people were killed in that bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, in 19 # 8. a judge in boston ruled that the federal ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. the judge says the ban violates state s rights, same-sex unions have been legal in massachusetts since 2004. but the state argues that the federal law diskrim nalts against gay married couples by denying them access to the same benefits as heterosexual couples. superstar mel gibson was named