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afghans last weekend. he could be charged with those deaths as soon as this week. let s check in with dan simonen sadding by for us, live at louis mccord. that s where bailes was stationed for many years, dan. more on the attorney in a moment. you have been talking with a former neighbor, staff sergeant bailes. what are you learning about his life here in the united states? well, let me give you a little background. bailes and his wife held on to a condo that they used to live in. they were treating it as a rental property. we drove over to that neighborhood earlier today. the place is under foreclosure, we spoke to a neighbor who shared a wall with the bailes. he basically said he was aware the family was facing financial pressure, obviously because the place had gone under foreclosure, they couldn t afford their homeowner s association dues, $120 a year. the place has been in disrepair, the neighbor was with mowing the lawn, he said that robert bales was a really go ....
we begin this morning, talking about the aftermath of irene, the massive storm that paralyzed and pummeled much of the east coast. today, it s blamed for at least 21 deaths in nine states from florida to vermont. and at last count, about 3 million homes and businesses are still without power. more than a billion dollars in damages is blamed on the storms winds. flooding damage will be much more costly. three navy ships should be positioned in relief efforts from new york to new england. cnn crews are in place, measuring the storm s impact and the struggle for the millions of americans trying to move on now. we ll take you from north carolina to new york to new england and give you the big picture from the cnn weather center, right here in atlanta. let s go ahead and begin in vermont, a state reeling from some of its worst flooding in decades. gary tuchman there in brat tleboro. reporter: they don t deal with hurricanes, at least not until yesterday when tropical sto ....
we see any clear skies here. anderson. that s it for us on 360 . more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this country s population under threat of this storm. we re talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. that s the cone of uncertainty they call it. but still they believe this is the path it s going to take, right up the east coast. and we re talking about some of this country s largest cities, most populus cities. these are cities that not often are tested for their hurricane preparedness. well, they will get a i test it appears here today and tomorrow through this weekend. we re talking about new york, washington, baltimore, boston, philly. all of those cities, just to name a few, all in the line of fire of this irene. it is track ....
but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so let s head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. once again it s a little later than usual, so i m scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect from little river inlet north carolina northward to sandy hook including delaware way, chesapeake bay, south of smith point. so that includes basically everybody from long island on southward. so this is a developing situation. of course. second thing that s new here that just came in, the intensity of the storm. category 2. look at that number. 110-mile-an-hour winds. the threshold between the two is between 110 and 111. 111 makes it a major hurricane, 110 makes it a think not major hurric ....
you re in the cnn newsroom. this is sunday, may 29th on this memorial day weekend. i m fredericka whitfield. one week ago a tornado pack 2g 00 mifrp winds ripped through the city leaving at least 142 people dead and hundreds more hurt. numbers continue to rise. this isn t about a scoreboard. those numbers have far exceeded what never had ever hoped for and far exceed all the tornados in our country. today we bring everyone together go focus on it and inspire others to come together as the they have here. we ll hear from both the president and the govern right here on cnn. lockheed martin says hackers who attacked their system did not get anything important. it s one of several military vendors that hackers targeted. the aerospace security team took countermeasures to protect information from being compromised. back in joplin, our white house dan lothian is also there. dan, with so much destruction, where do they find a building large enough to actually accommo ....