to countless communities where irene, now a tropical storm, is causing catastrophic flooding this is margaretville, a small village in the catskill mountains, about two and a half hours south of the city. within the past hour president obama addressed the government s response to this natural da disaster. i do want to underscore that power may be out for some time, perhaps days. i want to make sure dhs, fema and other agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground. reporter: irene is now over central vermont and moving north at 25 miles per hour, it s still got plenty of juice to make life miserable with 50-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rains. some of our best images have come from you, our ireporters. fred moore took this video of irene as it washed over west haven, connecticut. all up and down the coast we are seeing the impact irene has had. more than 15 people have lost their lives in the storm, more than 4 million homes and businesses a
he did mention briefly in that weekend address briefly, easter in passing. but still, nothing big. i think coming easter you will see a statement. oh, during the election year. coming out of the white house. clearly it was terrible, terrible error. the fox and friends crowd doesn t mention that george w. bush never issued easter proclamations either and president obama didn t ignore easter. he hosted the annual easter egg roll on the white house grounds. just as president bush did. he took his family to church on easter sunday, and he hosted an easter praid prayer breakfast. i was there, where he said this. there is something about the resurrection, something about the resurrection of our savior jesus christ that puts everything else in perspective.
i think he did mention briefly in his weekend address that weekend easter in passing but still, nothing big. it is christianity s holiest holiday. i think this coming easter, you ll see a statement. during the election year? coming out of the white house. clearly, it was a terrible, terrible error and i guess statements are made every year with regard to ramadan and a dinner is held, i think the previous presidents as well. but i mean, you know, the white house blew it with regard to easter. well, they did issue an eight paragraph, i believe, statement on earth day. crisis averted. didn t quite make up for that. not exactly. all right, meanwhile, we have headlines for you on this tuesday. a key witness in the brutal beating of san francisco giants fan bryan stow died suddenly on sunday. he apparently died from an allergic reaction to peanuts in a salad. it s unclear how this will
the hopes, i believe, of becoming governor himself. both times these episodes from his past knocked him out. now it s a sort of third audition with the national media. i figured why not investigate all these episodes, go get all the documents and sit down with him and go through it all, find out what the story is. ryan, what was the story? what were the episodes? here s what it is. stealing cars. that s right. i heard someone say stealing cars. nothing big, you know. there were three examples were stolen cars were involved. he was in the army, his sergeant accuse him of stealing his car. he was never charged with that one. he s denied it. he and his brother, who was a car thief and spent some years in jail, stole were accused and arrested for stealing a red maserati in cleveland. that case was dismissed and in 1980, a kind of unusual story. his brother used his identity, stole darrell s car, sold it and
slightly awry because we didn t find the much heralded hollow spaces we were led to believe were in there. i told the critics if we didn t find anything, i would sing a song. chicago, chicago megyn: how adorable. nothing was in al capone s vault. nothing big, anyway. it was a golden live tv moment and geraldo rivera got to relive it on a special edition of oprah. a who s who of talk show hosts. our own geraldo reflecting on that big tv blooper i was sailing with my family around the world. i was in the panama canal. someone said we have a vault in chicago if you want to come open it on live tv? i said how much?