if anything should happen, they would have to use a firearm, that they are backed up by their government. on the flip side, connecticut to pass the nation s strictest gun ban. everyone needs to think about it and look into their hearts and try to do what s necessary to make the changes that have to happen. plus mystery on mtv s buck wild. star shane gandy found dead in a truck stuck in feet of mud. new questions about what happened on that rural west virginia road. and words of motivation. i have no doubts that he would be back. the mother of louisville guard kevin ware speaking out about her son this morning. seems every obstacle he has to go through, he becomes a better man. an amazing recovery and new pictures of kevin from the hospital. here live in the cnn newsroom.
i can t either. we need to update you on tropical storm irene. it is for some worst than hurricane irene particularly for people in vermont. take a look at this new video that we have. this car, this car just one of the things that was dragged along by these raging floodwaters. no one, we re happy to report, was inside that car. the director of fema, craig fugate is heading to vermont today and homeland security secretary janet napolitano will travel to north carolina and virginia where, as you can see, homes were lifted right off their foundation and in little falls, new jersey, this truck stuck in record flooding. my goodness. at least 41 people across these 11 states have been killed and many nearly five million people are without power this morning including steve and brian. and flyers hope they get up in
eastern new york getting socked with snow. they are dealing with some of the white stuff up there. along the coastline is the rain causing huge problems. take a look at the mess in west nyak. some rivers have overflowed their banks. flooding out roads there this morning, very tough commute. a truck stuck in the middle of west nyack. maria molina is in the extreme weather center. reporter: it s a combination of the snow melt and all the heavy rain we are talking about 2 to 4 inches that fell across the northeast yesterday into early this morning. now we are talking about ice adding to the problem in northern new york. snowfall across eastern new york, looking at accumulations anywhere from 5 to 12 inches. even further north we are looking at heavier snow totals,
they touched her. so the physical evidence, it defies science, it defies common sense. it was just a perfect storm of bad luck. you know, between the choices i made to get that truck stuck in the ditch, things that were out of my control, the tunnel vision on the police, the attorney i had that went to prison, the jury who decided there wasn t much to go on, but yet convicted me anyway. reporter: in 2007, chris mumma brought the case to the newly formed north carolina innocence inquiry commission. it was the first and only government panel in the country created to free the wrongfully imprisoned. and it was here in this unassuming room that greg s bid for freedom would be heard. once the commission was up and running and i knew the way it was designed to work, was to get around those procedural blocks. to get around those walls that were keeping greg in. reporter: for greg s daughter kristin, it meant the
but to get a sense of just how bad it is on the streets, steve centanni went on snow patrol in an suv today. there is a small snowplow here. there was a truck stuck. there was some limbs down. the snow is about 5 or 6 inches thick on the pavement. it has not been plowed. emergency vehicles are out. a few people are out walking around. now these are city streets in the center of the city. but if you live in some of the residential areas of the washington, d.c. area, anywhere in the washington metropolitan area, probably now on up the atlantic seaboard. you have trouble in your residential neighborhood because those are narrower streets, a lot of trees and cars parked on both sides of the streets. know banks that are piled up by snowplows from the last storm that dumped 2 to 3 feet of snow here in the washington area. so, in those neighborhoods, it s very difficult to get your vehicle out, to get moving, and authorities are advising that even if you could, you shouldn t. shepard: no,