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the same is true in parts of the south. pensacola, florida, is just beginning to assess the situation after two feet of rain left massive damage to homes and businesses and officials say the flooding is possibly related to a deadly explosion at a county prison last night. we ll have more on that story in a moment, but we start this morning with nbc s kristen welker who is in baltimore, maryland with this road collapse there. kristen, as i understand, some neighbors indicate they have been complaining about issues there for a while. reporter: that s right. a few neighbors complaining that they had serious concerns about the retaining wall behind me that gave way last night, causing about eight to ten cars that fell 75 feet on to train tracks. one resident telling me she complained multiple times to the company that is responsible for the tracks, also to city officials. she says she got no response so there was a lot of deep concern throughout this neighborhood. here s ....
typhoon-force wind. if you hear about significant damage, that s very unusual for okinawa and a sign of the intensity of this storm which is battering an area where more this a million people live, including as you mentioned the u.s. military personnel. the manager of the air bass put out an alert saying this is the worst storm to hit okinawa in 15 years telling everybody to take it very seriously, hunker down and to make sure to tie down loose object so they don t become deadly projectiles. take a look at storm by the numbers, mentioned 125-mile-per-hour winds. 600,000 people now under voluntary evacuation advisories. 100,000 people now without power. more than 100 flights have been cancelled leaving more than 14,000 passengers grounded. and, john, the worst for japan may be yet to come because right now this storm is forecast to make landfall on the mainland later this week in the southern island of kyushu where 14,000 people live. it s rainy season and they have been ....
i hope this doesn t become the katrina moment for president obama saying that he doesn t need to come to the border. he should come down. i want to bring now cnn white house correspondent, senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, there s a letter to governor perry that the obama administration sent to him. it also addresses some concerns about specific policies that are in place to fight what we re seeing this flood of undocumented immigrants. what are they saying? reporter: that s right. just to get you up to speed on what s happening with the potential meeting between president obama and republican governor rick perry, we at this point can tell you that perry s office has not yet accepted that invitation or at least we don t know whether or not they ve accepted that invitation, according to a senior administration official here at the white house, aides to the president were in touch with perry s staff late last night, trying to arrange this meeting a ....