emily, this hasn t been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven t been able to operate. reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven t been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to go out in a storm, things can get darker for days. a chevy chase supermarket just outside washington. disaster hit three days after losing power. a refrigerated trailer compressor blew up and with it the family-owned supermarket s back-up plan. we lost everything in the trailer. then everything in the frozen food case here. basically we ve lost everything in the entire store. reporter: it mean
full of details in one minute for you here on cnn. a free election four decades overdue. the first real live democratic exercise in libya since the moammar gadhafi era. nearly 3 million libyans picked parliament members today waiting in long lines to vote at polling stations all across the country. we ve heard a few disruptions but overall international election observers are pleased. in the rest of the country things have been going smoothly. reports from the east where it s been more difficult but even there the jaft majority of citizens could cast their votes peacefully. to southern russia now. flash flooding has killed more than 100 people. rising waters swept through many houses as people slept unaware and vulnerable. some had to be rescued from roof tops and trees. the russian water ripped out traffic lights and stranded vehicles. one resort town got two months worth of rain in 24 hours. a small town in ohio rocked by the fatal shooting of four people. police say t