2010-05-06 CNN
How much more can Tennessee take? Parts of the state completely under water this morning after getting pounded with up to 20 inches of water over the weekend. At least 11 people have lost their lives. Others still missing. Hospitals evacuated. At Opryland hotel 1,500 guests spent the night at a nearby high school. Thousands of residents have fled their homes. People like this.
'We have been down here 40 years. Never saw it like this. And that’s just sad because we’ve looked for people all day. They’ve said they come but nobody come.'
'We just happen to come down here, when just really to take a picture and then they were bringing the first boat in. And they didn’t know the area, the fire department and so my boyfriend got on the boat with them and off he went.'
And while the rain is over, people are still worried about how high the Cumberland River will crest. Downtown Nashville merchants could lose millions of dollars.
Also, this morning we are keeping a close eye on the failed car bombing in New York’s Time Square. Police still pouring through the surveillance videos to see if they can spot whomever left the vehicle. They wanna talk to this man. The video shows a middle-aged white man changing his shirt about half a block from the parked SUV. It was loaded with a crude concoction of ordinary items like fireworks, furl and fertilizer. One big question still unanswered though. Is this the work of an international terrorist or terrorist? Police are skeptical of an apparent claim of responsibility right now from the Pakistani Taliban. The group has falsely taken credit for previous attacks on US soil. CNN's Allan Chernoff has been covering the story for us since it first broke Saturday evening. Allan, let’s go ahead to start with the surveillance video and what are the police wanting to know right now about the guy in this video.
'That’s right, Kyra. That is the focus. Surveillance video. That video that shows the man apparently a white man in his 40s, taking off his shirt, putting that shirt into a bag, putting on another shirt, apparently walking away from the vehicle, that’s one of the primary focuses of interest at the moment when we should point out, there’re lots of other video tapes. Let’s first hear from the police commissioner, Ray Kelly. He spoke about it on American Morning this morning.'