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Creeping south with a large i impoverished mississippi delta, the next to feel the pain, impacting places like memphis, tennessee. the weather channels julie martin is in vicksburg now with the rising waters. how fearful are residents? >> reporter: well, it depends on where you live, chuck. im in historic downtown vicksburg and we are on a bluff so the downtown area is doing fine. this is a site for a lot of tourists here. but if you look off to your left there is the mississippi river and where...

They helped them pick the sites. moreover, i talked to ali soufan, who was the case agent on the "uss cole" and was the most significant interrogator of many of the -- >> "uss cole" which was bombed in yemen. >> right. and he interviewed many of the al qaeda suspects that were picked up in pakistan after they came out of tora bora. and he said in every single case he said they were met by lashkar-e-taiba operatives who took them to safehouses. and lashkar is widely seen as being an apparatus of ...

>> billions. >> -- and continue to is playing this kind of double, triple game? >> well, theyve gotten away with it because were so paralyzed with fear about their nuclear weapons and what might happen with those. but anderson, were going to have to find a way to call the bluff on this nuclear game because this is a posture were in with north korea. now were in this arrangement with pakistan. where we feel theyre too dangerous to withdraw from. what other country would not want to be in that rel...

That? >> yes. they helped them pick the sites. more over, i talked to ali safan who was the case agent on the uss cole and the was the most significant interrogator. >> the uss cole which was bombed in yemen. >> right. he interviewed many of the suspects that were picked up in pakistan after they came out of tora bora. and he said in every single case, he said they were met by lashkari taibeh operatives who took them to safe houses. and lashkar is widely seen as being an apparatus of the isi, su...

Who was the case agent on the "uss cole" and was the most significant interrogator of many of the -- >> "uss cole" which was bombed in yemen. >> right. and he interviewed many of the al qaeda suspects that were picked up in pakistan after they came out of tora bora. and he said in every single case he said they were met by lash r lashkar-e-taiba operatives who took them to safehouses. and lashkar is widely seen as being an apparatus of the isi, supported and nurtured by it, as is the taliban. >>...

Bluff, saying its safe that the chinese have already seen it. hes a former state department senior advisor. first of all, there is value to this helicopter why? why would it have great interest? >> it appears it was destroyed by the seals when they were unable to restart it, but it appears to have an unusual tail section, which theres been speculation that it might be a silent or stealthy evading appendage to a helicopter, definitely not the ordinary sea hawk that the seals would be using. the t...

Nonstarter. it is off the table. everything else is on the table. >> how many times do we have to go through this, this trickle down nonsense has never happened, never worked. but today, something interesting did happen. democrats started to call boehners bluff. they said if you want to cut spending, lets start by cutting massive to oil subsidies. hallelujah. now, republicans will, of course, try to squirm their way out of that one by arguing that the one place we shouldnt cut is government su...

Were expecting to happen tomorrow morning. how would you describe the situation in memphis? >> well, its sort of tortures, weve been waiting so long, hard keeping people alert. its warning fatigue, if you will. were ready for it. a lot of anxiety. >> so of the people, how many people have been evacuated and of those who havent if were just going up another two inches does that mean we kind of know what the danger will be, how bad this is going to get now? >> we think we have a pretty good handle...

>> no question about that. city will push back. you can take a look at downtown memphis now. it is built up on a bluff. understand this. water is creeping into the downtown area. some of the streets have been closed. none of the businesses seem to be affected much what you do see is lot of people coming down to the area, taking a look. people that lived in memphis all their lives have never seen the water like this. and hoping they dont see hit the way for a long time. one other point if i can. ...

A half or so from here. it is supposed to work like this. barbecue on that side, river on that side. the river is not playing by the rules. they closed a bunch of the parks here, closed a bunch of the areas. no evacuations in the downtown area. and they believe things will be safe here. it is kind of up on a hill, up on a bluff, as you know. it looks like downtown will fare okay. they had to move what was a barbecue cook-off in one of the parks here to another park up on higher ground. and there...