to earle i start. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and it s expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. it s also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnn s rob marciano has been tracking the storm from the weather center. cnn s george howell is live in georgia. i m assuming that things are only just starting to get bad out there, george? reporter: ashlee , we are expecting to be to be a real soaker. this is going to be the center of the storm. it will move towards the savannah area. just a few days ago the story here was the wind event. a strong wind event that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines. today we are expecting that sustained rain over this area could p
it. he is telling his story in an upcoming book. people voted on it? people chose him as the most intriguing person of the year. the whole list is up at cnn.com and i have linked it at my facebook and twitter pages. take a look and we ll talk next hour. maybe some of our viewers will have choice comments about this. please get those up. since i didn t vote, i can t really complain. the monster storm in the northeast is costing retailers and fat wad of cash opinion christine romans is in new york. what are we talking about in terms of lost sales here? we are talking ability $1 billion. the day after christmas and the day after the day after christmas are big days. the question is is it lost forever or postponed? will they make sales over the next days to get us to reach our hand into our pocket and buy the