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Gulf coast region. not engineers with a four-year degree, but skilled workers with two-year associate degrees in science-based technology. >> back in 2000, we had typically about 2,000 applicants for every 20 to 30 vacancies. by contrast, today, we have about 250 applicants for those same 20 to 30 vacancies. >> reporter: its a similar story at manufacturing plants across the country. in part, due to experienced baby boomers retiring and in part, due to the rapid advancement of technology. school...

seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> thats right. in fact, were waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. thats the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out o...

>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white h...