to rest. after an unforgettable send-off that still has everyone talking. and it wasn t until that last moment when everyone it all sunk in and got really, really heavy. and google s big gaffe, the security slip-up that allowed companies to track your personal information. captions by vitac www.vitac.com whitney houston was laid to rest in new jersey. it was a family-only service today as a cemetery in westfield. in just a couple of minutes i ll talk live to a cnn producer who attended whitney houston s funeral yesterday in newark and who she saw and what she saw. that s. going up. human remains have been found on long island in a separate location from where others have been located, and the find is renewing fears that a serial killer is to blame. ten other sets of remains have been discovered since 2000. the latest remains were found about 40 miles from where other remains were uncovered. so far it s not clear if the cases are connected. and the co-chair of
Kind of destruction here, but that does not mean that it can t happen. it can and we must be prepared. that s exactly why we developed our coastal storm plan back in 2006 to prevent the kind of problems that we saw during katrina. please heed these warnings and get yourself to safety before the bad weather hits. as i mentioned earlier, the mta will be shutting down the public transportation system at noon. what that means is the last train leaves the station, but you can t count on being on the last train. it may be overloaded or maybe it s already past you. you should assume afternoon that there is no mass transit. staten island ferry service will be suspended as of 10:00 p.m. tonight or earlier if the winds come earlier. city bridges may close if high winds make driving across them dangerous, and the port authority bridges which tend to be the bigger, higher bridges may close even earlier. the beaches are closed for the weekend, as will all cultural
nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and that s basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means you ve got to do that right now. 2 1/2 hours left for mass transit. city employees, if you volunteered to help serve in the shelters today, we need you to report to your sites now. it is going to be very difficult to get to or from these sites, and when with people show up really will make a difference. to those city ployees who volunteered, thank you so much for doing so, but we need you to start making that trip. bring some stuff with you if you have to stay for a while, but you really are g
stand, reports of explosions near a compound where he may be hiding. and i m carol costello. a new poll predicting a tight race in 2012, whether obama versus romney, bachmann, perry or paul on this american morning. good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is american morning. we have a lot going on today here. this weather in the united states. that s right. politics and, of course the developments in libya. start with breaking news in the battle for libya this morning. the arabic news network al arabiya reporting explosions near the compound where moammar gadhafi is believed to be hiding, this coming as the regime is teetering on the bring of collapse. nobody has seen gadhafi since the opposition rolled into tripoli over the weekend. his son, saif al islam, made a surprise appearance after the libyan opposition claimed they captured him. he showed up at a western hotel with journalists and spoke to matthew chance and said his father is alive and
Help of her friends right now trying to get all of her belongs somewhere where it can be dry before more expected bad weather hits. this is john degrath. john you were in this house when the tornado hit but you actually live in that little yellow house off in the distance. yes, the third house from the corner, which you can t tell three houses, it s the little yellow house directly back over there, that s my house, that s where i was just prior to the storm and tornado hitting. reporter: you knew you won t make it as this big ef4 worked its way through here. i saw it on the radar and they said the tornado is in this position or funnel clouds. i said this looks bad. i came out my back door, i ran up here to d, i call her d, d s house, we looked on the front porch, it looked really, really bad, you could not see the tornado, it was rain wrapped. the wind was out of control, the rain came blowing in, we went inside, we hit the basement, it hit. the tornado sirens went off i was ru