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Advance peace in the middle east. of course, the pro democracy arab spring that is sweeping across the area is going without united states intervention. or at least expressed intervention. and the israeli palestinian conflict continues and appears to be heating up. and a number of analysts accuse our president of being hypocritical for not responding sprongly enough against bahrains king or syrias king while we give millions of dollars to libyan rebels and pretending we have in the sided with th...

Majority sits on a bluff there are low lying areas that have been getting hammered. the mayor says over 1400 residents and businesses are impacted. dozens of roads and some major highways are under water. 1 0 national guard soldiers are now in the region helping not with search and rescue but with patrols, looting is always a concern when you have this many people displaced. thankfully, there has been only one case of looting so far. but as you can tell, shep, as we come back live, this city, wh...

Writer today came out and said basically the government is calling our bluff here. if we let this government default it is not going to be as dire as people think, and youre going to sort of force the situation to have, you know, people get serious about making cuts. that seems to be what the american sentiment or almost half of the american sentiment is out there, brad. >> and it may have to come to that. unfortunately i dont think we should lay the gauntlet down and say we are not going to rai...

From the the morganza spillway product and this isnt diverted water, its the mississippi river about a mile outside of the banks. swallowed streets and homes, including that house there, built on sits about 11 feet off the ground and locals tell us this is among the worst flooding they have ever seen, here in st. francisville. now, most of the homes are billed up on a bluff, but as see saw on a tour with the police chief scott ford on an air boat, there are a lot of damages here along the edge o...

High water mark next thursday. uma? >> uma: vicksburg is such a historic area. the building behind you looks like it was built many year ago. what are they doing to protect the historic structures there? >> there are people building sand levees around the structures but its interesting. we are up on a bluff, so most of vicksburg is on higher ground. as i showed you before, there is a downtown business area here where some are along the water front, including a casino. as we show you a layout, th...

so what does the former president have to say now that terrorist is dead? he is breaking his silence. also, a rare interview to share with you this morning with that guy, hank aaron, talking to me about a number of things, the low lite of his career and he is also talking about president obama, barry bonds and who the real home run king should be. hello to you all center in atlanta, georgia. im t.j. holmes. morgan city, louisiana, is a place that is on edge right now. we talk about...

I went ton google earth. vicksburg, mississippi, well talk a lot about that in a second because thats where the yazoo river comes into the mississippi. baton rouge. 215 miles as the crow flies. at least 400 miles as the river goes. it only drops in elevation 32 feet. in two ii 00 miles, the land drops 32 feet. so thats why its taking so very long for this water to move down river. and in fact, im going to take you to place where the waters moving upriver, up the yazoo river -- theres vicksburg r...

Bill: we are going to continue this into next week. kathleen london and mark siegel. author of the "the inner pulse." jamie: human rights groups monitoring what is happening in syria. there are thousands of people take together streets again protesting the treatment that they believe they want no more under president asaad. so far one human right activist according to the wires is reporting todays protests have turned deadly. one person has been killed. well monitor it for you a bring you the la...

suicide bombers, one on a motorcycle, one on foot, targettarget ed cadets in northwestern pakistan. that happening today. the two explosions killed 80 people. the academy is near the border with afghanistan. now, sources say that bin ladens widows, theyre not giving up a lot of information. the three women are described as hostile to their american questioners. the interview took place with pakistani intelligence officers in the room. and a source says only the oldest wife spoke. def...

Made mistakes before? >> you end the article with a powerful observation, which is there have been people indicted for making false statements, perjure, before congress -- >> right, roger clemens. >> barry bonds was indicted, not for statements before congress but for lying in the course of an investigation about steroids. and yet nobody yet indicted for the testimony from goldman. >> right, yeah, i know, and we went through -- we did in this article, we went through the statements they made in ...