lines. may be without television. internet connectivity. really pay attention to what the advice is from the emergency management experts and the state governments. what s your message for those who are watching at home in the line of the storm who are planning to ride out hflgs assumi ride out hurricane florence assumption it s too late to leave. find out where the high ground is, have a signal. emergency response capabilities have been removed as local officials have said if you ve chosen to stay in there, you may be hunkering down until we get back in after the storm. be patient and get to the high ground and make sure you ve got food and water supplies to last you a couple of days and, again, first emergency managers will get to you, but you need to be patient. do not venture out in high waters or venture out where there s wires on the street or other dangers. thanks very much. best of luck to you. we re ready to go, and we re standing by to work with our
and then they ll have to worry about that. let s bring in brian todd. how could something like this happen in the ninth largest city in the united states. what have you learned? wolf, we ve gotten this from top officials in georgia, the statements that they are making and from emergency management experts that we re speaking to. much of this disaster caused by timing, timing of salt trucks and the timing about when to shut things down. reporter: abandoned cars are finally beginning to be cleared from roadways and georgia s governor finally gives a clear answer on what went wrong. we did not make preparation early enough to avoid these consequences. reporter: experts say that s one critical thing the governor, atlanta mayor, and others did not do. they didn t make the tough calls early enough. to shut the schools down, to close the local government, to have businesses shut down obviously in retrospect was not
hello, i m dr. sanjay gupta. few of us can forget what unfolded behind me ten years the shocking spectacle of the world trade center towers crumbling into dust against that new york city skyline and the what disappeared along with it. ten years later, the obvious signs of the dust are gone. yet in some waysit still looms over new york city. it still haunts the over new york city. thousands of responders who became sick after breathing it in. in washington, there is a large fire. move it! get out! the world trade center. back, back. what s going on? get out of here! let s go. and the president who is in florida today, within moments after the first tower disintegrated, an eerie silence fell over lower manhattan. there should be a sound when one of the largest skyscrapers in the world collapses. and we know that there must have been a sound. very few people, including myself, remember a sound. dr. david prizant, a pulmonologist and top doctor with the new
who may be in need of damage control after irene? plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we re hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn t get away. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep away cars and swallow up homes. right now vermont is devastated by the worst flooding in decades. cnn s amber lyon joins us from brattleboro in vermont. set the scene a little bit, amber, for what s going on. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, out here, wolf, had i been standing out here earlier yesterday, i would be completely under water. i want to come here and show you this brook right here, this is pretty much representative of what s across this state. this is wet stone brook, flowing more like a river now. it s about four feet wider than usual and look over her
well, we have sadly, we have experience. we have fema in place still recovering from matthew. we ve had a briefing from the governor s office from our emergency management experts down in raleigh and we re as prepared as we can be. the thing to help us be more prepared is to have any citizen asked to evacuate to do so for their own safety and for the safety of first responders. bill: we spoke with the city official 30 minutes ago in wilmington. you know what he said, senator? he said they ve gotten lucky often in the past 20 years or so but he has never seen the number of people in wilmington leave as he has for this storm. that tells you something. i m proud of the citizens of wilmington and the local elected officials that have taken the positive steps, including the efforts of the governor to force mandatory evacuations. the people of north carolina need to understand that matthew was a category 1 hurricane when