the industry, having sex with employees they were supposed to be watching over, even doing drugs with them in some cases. you will not believe the report. breaking news tonight on the new information of a dry run the day before the bombing attempt of the time square terror suspect. also why so many on the no-fly list can still get guns illegally and we ll talk to bill maher. we begin with the breaking news on catastrophic flooding in the south. while a lot of us in the national media have been focused on the oil spill the city of nashville has been under water, at least 28 people dead, 19 in tennessee alone, where it s taken the heaviest toll. besides the devastating loss of life. people being swept away, homes damaged or gone. roads, bridges, washed away. look at these images. tonight, the mayor of nashville says the cost of the damages
affected by this tragedy, but there are so many people in nashville that are really hurting that, you know, the things i lost, i can replace, thank god. there have been people that lost their lives and their livelihood. i m glad you said that about you guys coming to nashville, to let the world know that people here are hurting because, you know, we need the world s help right now. it s just really sad thing to see, especially people that you know and people that you love and people that i do feel like that the people here in this town are a really tight community and it s just sad to see it happen. i heard a story today about a woman who watched her husband try to save her daughter from her child from racing floodwaters, only to see them both swept away.
this in nashville? caller: never, anderson. i ve been here 14, 15 years now. i ve never seen anything like this in my life, much less nashville. there s a lot of people in this city that s really hurting now. i ve never seen anything like it. i was out of town when it happened. as i was flying back home, you could see all of it from the air. i couldn t believe what had happened. i couldn t believe that this you think you watch the news and you see all this stuff happen around the world. you know, this has really had an effect on this town and on this state. it s really been a really tough thing for people to deal with, including me. we ve been getting a lot of e-mails from viewers in tennessee, saying where are you guys? the national media hasn t focused on this and i have to say, they re right. we haven t focused the way we should have and been distracted by the oil spill and terror
have you ever seen anything like this in nashville? caller: never, anderson. i ve been here 14, 15 years now. i ve never seen anything like this in my life, much less nashville. there s a lot of people in this city that s really hurting now. i ve never seen anything like it. i was out of town when it happened. as i was flying back home, you could see all of it from the air. i couldn t believe what had happened. i couldn t believe that this you think you watch the news and you see all this stuff happen around the world. you know, this has really had an effect on this town and on this state. it s really been a really tough thing for people to deal with, including me. we ve been getting a lot of e-mails from viewers in tennessee, saying where are you guys? the national media hasn t focused on this and i have to say, they re right. we haven t focused the way we
little bit but not as much as we should have. we hope to begin to correct that tonight and tomorrow from nashville. we ll go there tomorrow. with us now is nashville mayor, karl dean. it s been five days since the storm first occurred, seeing pictures coming over the city. how bad is it tonight? anderson, we re really in the recovery stage. the rain stopped sunday and the river crested monday night. we re in a position now where the river is actually receding. we are coming out of this thing, beginning the cleanup process. we had nine deaths in nashville, a lot of people who lost their homes and businesses no longer operating. this has been devastating. our heart goes out to the victims of this flood. right now, we re going to be focused on getting our city back up working. in essence, the government will report back to work tomorrow completely. we are going forward with the cleanup. the downtown area you ll see tomorrow is rapidly coming back.