afghanistan and white house press secretary stephanie grisham tweeting standing by for you to delete this completely false tweet. newsweek issuing a correction, writing the story has been substantially updated and edited at 6:17 p.m. eastern time, the president s surprise trip to afghanistan. social media weighing in on this, rich tweeting this takes fake news to a whole new level. judy on facebook saying and yet i bet they still wonder why they are called fake news. jr tweeting happy thanksgiving and thank you for standing for our warriors. 55 minutes after the hour. extreme weather causing holiday travel havoc. roads shutdown across the country with millions of people trying to be on the move. we have got the latest track top of the hour. todd: nearly 40 years after appearing together on the big
rob: robert mueller has been investigating ties between the president s 2016 campaign. a memorial service for a rookie officer killed in the line of duty, natalie corona shot and killed while investigating a car crash last week. the specs kevin limbaugh killed himself shortly after the shooting. officer corona just 22 years old, finished training in december, heartbroken parents say she died doing what she loved. a powerful winter storm bringing strong winds to southern california. officials, a major highway near la closed, stranding cars for hours, the state bracing for more mudslides as the weather is expected to get worse, janice dean tracking at all. i will tell you those few times you get snow, the roads shutdown. they will get a lot of rain too.
rainfall totals never seen before. the governor calls it a once in a 1,000 year weather event. triggering more than 200 water rescue rescues. roads shutdown all over south carolina. cars and trucking washed away. look at the aerial view. water levels rising so fast. check this out. the coast guard had to air lift a mother and 15-month-old infant to safety. look at these people after being rescued from raging waters. torrential rain and floods leaving some with no choice but to rebuild. we lost everything. everybody down that hill there has lost everything. our vehicles, our clothes. everything. the best thing is we still have our lives. we still have our lives. columbia is getting the worst
good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. you re looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. it s an animated satellite of irene as it s churning up the eastern seaboard like a buzz saw. at last check, 5 million people are still without power. throughout the morning, the death toll has been jumping as well. 38 people are now confirmed dead in 11 states and it could get even higher. three navy ships off the coast of new york to help with search and rescue missions and reps from the obama administration are going to fan out across three of the hardest hit states, virginia, north carolina, and vermont. let s go ahead and start there where floodwaters have dest
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