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to countless communities where irene, now a tropical storm, is causing catastrophic flooding this is margaretville, a small village in the catskill mountains, about two and a half hours south of the city. within the past hour president obama addressed the government s response to this natural da disaster. i do want to underscore that power may be out for some time, perhaps days. i want to make sure dhs, fema and other agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground. reporter: irene is now over central vermont and moving north at 25 miles per hour, it s still got plenty of juice to make life miserable with 50-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rains. some of our best images have come from you, our ireporters. fred moore took this video of irene as it washed over west haven, connecticut. all up and down the coast we are seeing the impact irene has had. more than 15 people have lost their lives in the storm, more than 4 million homes and busine ....
They tried a number of things in that area and they have been unable to shut it down. i think we need to hear from the border patrol what are they trying to do and we need to hear from congress, how are they going to make sure dhs and the border patrol have the resources they need in these tight budge oat times. bill: in the president s budget they are asking for an increase of $300 million over last year. that would seem significant, no? what s that going to get us to, 49%? i think the question is what sort of funding stream would we need to get to true operation algal control of the border? is the border patrol using the money as effectively as they can be. those are two figure questions out there. bill: thank you for coming in. cutting the debt, one congressman saying the debt is so severe we need substantial cuts now. ....
Detroit and now mexican authorities tell us along with multiple sources within the u.s. government a hezbollah recruiting cell operative was arrested last fall and it wasn t if hezbollah members got into the u.s. but how main and they said, hezbollah is sharing information with the drug cartels and rubbing shoulders and are making tens of millions of dollars, in the global cocaine trade. hezbollah has not recognized that connection between those mexican cartels, and their operatives in the united states and what that has to potentially offer hezbollah, then, you know, then you know, they are simply missing the boat. we know from dhs documents, 180,000 illegal aliens from countries other than mexico, were apprehended from 2007, through middle of last year, and we have also been told, today, that less than 40% of our border is secure and the mexican government over the weekend, did put more military on the u.s. ....