relationship with her. susan s parents are beyond outraged. and they are here live. why is a court forcing a mother to let her child live with a woman convicted of murdering two little children? in kelly s court. plus, epic flooding and devastation continues in vermont, in upstate new york, and in new jersey. we will take you there live as the red cross joins us today. see you top of the hour. jen right now in california, some veteran members of congress, many serving as many as three decades, could be in for the fight of their political lives. next year, all thanks to the big redo of the electoral map. anita vogel is live from los angeles with more on this. hi anita. reporter: hey there jenna. this is a huge change t. stems from a ballot measure last year calling for a citizens panel to redraw the state seats and congressional seats. well, they redrew those
i was taking a look at your town website is kept so well up-to-date with everything that is happening. looks like you have a really good system in place. just describe what your residents are going through right now. no electricity, no water. what is the situation facing a regular family? well, depends where you re at in our town. we, we are establishing power incrementally. power has pretty much been back. we were able to re-establish sewer and water last night, which parts of the town which is great. but, there, biggest issues we have now is section of the heart of our town where good majority, a lot of our businesses are is still really wreck, totally wrecked. and we re trying to re-establish that section of town right now. and clearing out the debris that has been left over is probably the main challenge. jenna: what do you need. what do we need? jenna: yeah. we could use a lot of
lives here the situation just out of our camera range, i m quoting him, now, resembles niagra falls. the situation three days after the irene left the area still dire. authorities here saying they re doing the best they can to cope. in a few hours time, janet napolitano will be touring new jersey. she will hold a news conference here. more than anything else the folks who live in community just want the waters to recede and that we are told could take three to five days. back to you. gregg: my goodness, three to five more days of that. david lee miller in paterson, new jersey. hard to believe that is happening. jenna: unbelievable to see the pictures still coming in. you think the hurricane is a day or two we re watching the story, yet into the week here we are taking a look at another state, that is the state of vermont which also was just hit so hard by this storm. nearly a foot of rain triggered massive flooding and cut off access to almost a dozen towns. folks there with no power,
cory harris will have to sit for the game. initially the first game it will be difficult for the hurricanes. they will have a heck of a hurdle knocking out a large portion of their starting lineup. getting past the first game which you see five players sit. the team will strengthen once again. the investigative cloud hanging over the team right now is problematic as the suspensions. gregg: what a shame. charles robinson, investigative reporter for yahoo! sports who broke the story, thanks very much. thank you. gregg: jenna. jenna: unfolded right here live on happening now yesterday. we showed you three hikers rescued after spending the night in a national park. we don t even know where they were, where they were going. there are so many questions. this mission, this rescue mission was certainly not easy. we have the details straight from the people who made sure this story had a happy ending and we re going to talk to them next.
other jenna: why? we have to run. such an interesting question. why would people tell you that they would prefer ran dome folks out after phone booth and think they would be more effective than those that want to be in politics. reporter: because they believe they are actually trying to beat each other instead of solving the problems in the community. they were saying, how do we get rid of all that and get something done. which is part of the president s problem, even if he wants to do something you have the other side saying, no you don t. jenna: maybe he should hold up a phone book and just ask. joe, thank you so much. such an interesting thing to share with us. i m curious what our viewers are thinking about it happening now. would you prefer the phone book or the people in power. gregg: a dramatic story you watched unfold right here on happening now.