【整理】2008-06-12
A sandbagged levee is still keeping the Cedar River out of downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa. For more rain is falling and officials are asking for extra volunteer sand baggers. Forecasters say a dry spell could be coming soon.
Low humidity and 40 mile an hour wind gust are expected to make things tough for crews battling wildfires in Northern California, a blaze near Sacramento is already destroyed nearly 15 homes and buildings, but another 275 threatened, officials say the fire`s about 60% contained.
Gasoline is reached another record, the national average is now $4.5 a gallon, the declining dollar and lower than expected oil stocks had pushed crude prices up again in New York.
And in Atlanta, a bizarre incident at a gas station. Witnesses say this man // in and started dancing naked on top of this car, people are getting back in, slamming this car into a rough gas pumps, setting them on fire, fire crews extinguish the blaze before it could spread to more pumps.