one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. but the real fight is with mitt romney and it is anything but nice. there is enough journalists swarming around newt gingrich under this pharmacy to givefully candidate a migraine. just enough room to talk with handful of voters and a parrot in the store. but the real squawking in gingrich s ear is coming from mitt romney who said the former speaker should give up the big money he earned advising the housing giant, freddie mac. one of the things that i think people recognize in washington is th
and water is the reason why. you re looking at where prattsville, new york, used to be. prattsville, parts of it are gone. the town of 600, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely but don t have much to return to. of course, compared to jop pin, missouri, she was stranded there by rising floodwaters and joins us shortly. still stranded there tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on to full rivers and reservoirs. look at that truck trying to get through. that water has to go through somewhere. this scene in new jersey where big military trucks are having a hard time getting around. rivers and streams overflowing. some above record flood levels or soon to be. largely because of the damage could hit $7 billion making it one of the ten most expensive disasters in american history, as many as 5 million are still without people. lines are down nearly everywhere. several have been electrocuted. some have drowned. the death toll rose to 27. first how we got there,
another rough day, with strong thunderstorms. with the heat that built up. my goodness, look at that. big old trees coming down there. we don t expect that today. there was kind of a back door cool front that slid down south of new york so you won t be quite as hot as yesterday. other sorries will be like they were yesterday. louisville, 99 degrees. memphis, tennessee, 96 degrees. and today is the first full day of fall. mother nature is kernel not cooperating on that. it feels more like july. we ll talk about that and what s going on in the tropics. he says it like it s a bad thing that it more like july than fall. we had a rough july. i don t know about you guys, i m ready for cooler weather. and it s a lot hotter in atlanta. amen. well, you didn t have to leave new york, rob. i appreciate that. well, it s been six months and today, changes coming your way because of the new health care law. we ll tell you what they are, how they can affect you, your
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looking at these documents is that a war always known to be a difficult struggle for the soldiers on the ground as well as for afghan civilians is more difficult. when you get into the fine-grain detail sorries of individual missions, individual confrontations on the ground, you get a sense of just how challenging it really is. and it is a grimmer picture. i think what we all have seen as you referred to in your lead-in is the reports of complicity by pakistan s spy agency, the isi, or more voluminous than we thought. we see reports of meetings between the isi and various militant groups that are conducting attacks in afghanistan as well as other details suggesting that this involvement continues to this day. and in the administration, they are aware of that. that s an interesting point, because we have give millions and millions of dollars to pakistan in aid. we support its military. so with that information, and many critics have come forward saying, where does that money go?