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President obama are all calling it a success, but it wasn t easy. it required days of marathon talks with back and forth political posturing along the way. it cuts $38 billion. the president calls the cuts painful but necessary. a wildfire in west texas scorched more than 71,000 acres and tonight we re learning some 50 homes are being evacuated in midland, and part of interstate 20 has now been closed. firefighters haven t been able to gain control of the fast-moving fire which has been burning since wednesday. air tankers dropped 58,000 gallons of retardant on the fire. the prep work is done. now all residents in north and south dakota can do a wait and watch. for a third year in the row the red river is expected to crest above flood stage. today crews in fargo piled up sandbags and added to dyes dikes along the river. ....
Dikes are concerned. with that wind-driven water, it s going to just kind of lap at those dike areas. so be careful if you re one of those first responders or people who are looking to see just how well the dams or dikes are working. here s grand fork, still under that flash flood warning. they are looking at wind gusts maybe up to around 30 or 35 miles an hour. it has been rather brisk. and those temperatures are a little bit chilly. all right. we ve got some fires to tell you about. here s the crest as expected for grand forks. looking at just about 50.5 feet by wednesday. now talking about the fires, i took a look at some of the wind conditions across west texas. west texas known to be hot and dry. but it s hotter and drier. and the humidity is about 10% to 15%. maybe less in some areas, because we see the temperature right around 90 degrees in some places. but the wind could gust up as high as 65 miles an hour today. ....
The water is and it can be powerful. six or eight inches can sweep cars away. very powerful. we saw that no more importantly than we did in japan when the tsunami came. this is nothing like that, although its impact is still felt across a broad area. and what is one of the worst things you can see during a flood? i know this personally myself, is when you see some rain. and then you kind of hold your breath and wonder if it s going to get worse. this rainfall is not going to be the big impact. the wind is going to be the big impact. we could see the winds gusting up to around 35 miles an hour. we ve got pictures out of cass county in north dakota. this is north of fargo. you see some of the barriers there, some of the dikes, and just how high this river is, and in fargo it did not reach record levels. this is about the fourth highest it has been, but you can see the amount of devastation that takes place here, and it looks like this isn t going to go down at least for the next five d ....
Astonishing. just nothing i ve ever seen before. and, you know, we re going to be dealing with a lot of the issues for a long time this year. it s going up an inch a day. at some point we got to reach i mean how full can this lake get, you know. thousands of residents could be forced from their homes if the sandbags and dikes don t hold up. dutch police identified the gunman in a deadly rampage in the netherlands. seven people were killed and 16 others wounded when the shooter opened fire at a mall outside of amsterdam. he then killed himself. he was a 24-year-old dutch national who left a farewell note behind claiming he left explosives around the town. with the search still under way, some residents are not being allowed to return to their houses tonight. a new glimpse of libyan leader moammar gadhafi. state television aired these pictures of his visit to a school in tripoli today. meantime, the fighting raged today in ajidabiya, the last ....
Astonishing. just nothing i ve ever seen before. and, you know, we re going to be dealing with a lot of the issues for a long time this year. it s going up an inch a day. at some point we got to reach i mean how full can this lake get, you know. thousands of residents could be forced from their homes if the sand bags and dikes don t hurt. dutch police identified the gunman and i deadly rampage in the he netherlands. he was a 24-year-old dutch national who left a farewell note behind claiming he left explosives around the town. a new glimpse of libyan leader moammar gadhafi. state television aired these pictures of his visit to a school in tripoli today. ....