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Bleak. >> afraid so. alisyn: and sounding more grim. thank you for explaining that to us. coming up the presidents new push on immigration, well show you what hes going to do tomorrow to launch a new push for coast to coast changes. well talk to lou dobbs next about the presidents plan and the timing of it all. and see the man in this photo here, the one buried up to his neck in sand? hes an olympic swimmer. how did he end up here and why did it take 60 emergency workers to get him out? th...

Rising. thousands of homeowners headed for higher ground. memphis is bracing for possible record flooding as officials go door-to-door advocating residents. >> reporter: with the mighty mississippi swallowing more of memphis by the hour, emergency workers are going door-to-door, urging hold-outs to quickly gather whats important and bussing them to higher ground and safety. >> getting my medicines together. >> reporter: evacuation centers like the hope presbyterian church have become sanctuaries...

That water has to go somewhere, that is downstream, headed towards new orleans, but places like vieksberg will be crested, naches, those areas are going to crest higher than theyve ever seen, even higher than the 37 floods, after these floods, they built these levees and this is a test to see if the levees will hold and theres a concern about that as you head farther downstream. alisyn: my gosh, it sounds like obviously its going to be a disaster there. we heard the mayor saying he knows that he...

Flood facts, more than four million people live in flood affected areas around the south. emergency workers, they have issued flood notices to around 950 households in memphis and about 135 in shelby county, tennessee. even before the latest round of flooding, the army corps of engineers has spent $13 billion on river flood prevention. >> gregg: lets get the latest from maria. >> i do want to point out that flooding does tend to happen in the spring months, including the ohio river, mississippi ...

There. hes meeting with police officers, new york port authority officers as well. earlier he met with firefighters in midtown, manhattan. anderson cooper is on the scene for us at ground zero. anderson, from this first precinct we believe he will head over to where you are for this wreath laying ceremony. >> yeah, thats right. the significance, just so you know, the first precinct, they were the first police officers to respond on 9/11. they did not lose any members of the police force from tha...

This was her first time back at the scene in seven years. she reads a plaque on honoring the victims and praising the emergency workers. >> translator: just a simple thanks like it says there, is plenty in return for what we went through that day. >> monita, lopez there in the story i talked to her on monday, yesterday she says with the death of bin laden, thats one less bad person to do harm, but those were the emergency workers on monday, yesterday, we also had a victim of the train bombings, ...

Too well the horror of terror attacks. seven years ago, a series of bombs tore through computer trains in madrid. our madrid bureau chief caught up with ambulance workers on the scene that day and joins us now live. al? >> hi, monita. the spanish government says the nation is relieved that osama bin laden has been killed and as you say, all thoughts went to the madrid train bombings of seven years ago. attacks that prosecutors here say were inspired by al qaeda, although not organized directly b...

House. it was just built and their roof is on the other side of the street. its absolutely horrific. >> the national weather service says the tornado that hit smithfield, mississippi, was an ef-5 on the tornado scale. that with winds 205 miles an hour. emergency workers have raised the states death toll now to 33. they say without the repeated urgent tornado warnings from the weather service, even more people would have died. space shuttle "endeavor" is set to lift off on its final flight. pre...

It was just to the northwest of where i was located at the time. and shortly after it came through, its that same tornado that hit tuscaloosa, and it rolled through birmingham. and it was a massive storm. it looked like it was probably a mile wide, the tornado. >> at this point, are emergency service workers able to go out into the communities or do you to wait until daylight? >> well, we have to wait until the gas and power companies, make sure that all the lines are cut and the gas is turned o...

Then well send in the emergency workers. i mean, theyre in the area now. but we cant get vehicles up in there because of the power lines, as well as the trees. so we mobilized all of our people and theyre taking care of that. and were not going to wait until daylight. but most of the help will come at daylight, but were out there doing some things now. >> do you have a sense of the damage at this point? >> in terms of dollars, no. but i can only imagine that its up in the millions of dollars bec...