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John: i agree with him but you dont? >> i do not. a lot of the problems of drug taking is not from the illegality. the biggest problem at the moment is legally prescribed opiates. 2 million people have been turned into attics legally. oxycontin and those sorts of things. >> government is not making hundreds of thousands of arrest over oxycontin but marijuana. do we want a massive federal state local project where fills up the prisons to take time away from necessary purposes? in some people get ...

John: i agree with him but you dont? >> i do not. a lot of the problems of drug taking is not from the illegality. the biggest problem at the moment is legally prescribed opiates. 2 million people have been turned into attics legally. oxycontin and those sorts of things. >> government is not making hundreds of thousands of arrest over oxycontin but marijuana. do we want a massive federal state local project where fills up the prisons to take time away from necessary purposes? in some people get ...

Stay behind and the flood zone and the evacuation areas. so we are -- what we are trying to do now is continue to give them advice and hopefully, they are going to heed. >> are there going to be people on top of their roofs, do you think? >> that -- that is a possibility. in all the cases we have, we do have some people trying to get on their roofs or get into their attics and onto the roof. >> coast guard commander ken piro. listen, best of luck to you and all the men and women of the coast gua...

>> this feels like deja vu. would you believe the the worst is not even right here in new orleans proper. its all around us. take a look at some video. just about 11 miles southeast of where i am. an area very hard hit levy breech on the eastern side of the mississippi river. an earthen, community built levy. this is a sending people up to their at that timic -- attics. and in afternoon, focus in the same part of the parish but on the western side of the mississippi. 3,000 people had to be evacu...

>> this feels like deja vu. would you believe the the worst is not even right here in new orleans proper. its all around us. take a look at some video. just about 11 miles southeast of where i am. an area very hard hit levy breech on the eastern side of the mississippi river. an earthen, community built levy. this is a sending people up to their at that timic -- attics. and in afternoon, focus in the same part of the parish but on the western side of the mississippi. 3,000 people had to be evacu...

>> the rooftops, from inside the attics. they made a decision to stay and sometimes overnight and early morning hours is when the surge came up and started flooding their properties. >> we grabbed all our animals and sent them upstairs and the water just came in like so fast. >> the main thing is that we lost everything like a lot of people. a lot of people, there are animals, people are still there, my husband stayed behind with our animals until they could be rescued. i am glad to be out but i...

In their attics, waiting for people to come rescue them but frank there is too dangerous for rescuers to be out and about. after all the evacuations there were mandatory. as the national guard streams by below us on the corner of bourbon in the french quarter the search and rescue does continue in the storm zone. coming up we will hear from one rescuers who pulled men women and children from their houses inside the hard hit plaquemines parish. a place which has gotten well over a foot of rain in...

Rooftops, in attics. they tried to look over the wall and couldnt see anything. lots of rain and high wind caused by hurricane isaac and that is going to continue. as we get more information on the success of these rescues, we will let you know. but the back levee along that area has been overflowing with water since early yesterday. lets get the latest on hurricane isaac. the weather channels mike seidel joins me from orange beach, alabama. mike, what can you tell us? >> weve got the new advi...

virginia. ryan monroe is the editor of cnnpolitics.com. hes joining us from our washington bureau. sources telling cnn that it will be paul ryan. what do you think? what do you think he brings to the ticket? >> this is either going to be his boldest move or probably his riskiest mistake. paul ryan is a galvanizing force. for conservative republicans, hes seen as the voice behind conservatism. he is the voice that wants to get rid of medicare. if either of those are truthful, it will be...

some say future spy separatioop could be in jeopardy. russias newest civilian passenger jet, one of the planes took off from an airport in indonesia on a demonstration flight. it was supposed to return after 30 minutes. it did not and now there has been no contact with the pilot. at least 37 people were on board. theres no word on what has happened. same-sex couples in north carolina are facing uncertainty today after voters approved a constitutional ban on gay marriages. >> let no...