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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 house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike
we have more details on that statement from the sons of osama bin laden, accusing the u.s. of executing their father. cnn s deborah feyerick joins us from new york. what more can you tell us about the statement and how is the u.s. responding now? well, the white house is going to be having its noon briefing soon, and we do expect to get a response from them. we did get a response from the vice president, joed the whon was in the situation room with the president as they watched this mission unfold about 11 days ago. his reaction to the bin laden letter, quote, you re kidding, unquote. the sons of osama bin laden are not completely convinced that their father is dead. they said they want conclusive proof like photos and video that they say exists. they are not sure that he is dead. because they didn t see his body before it was buried at sea. the sons, including osama bin laden s son, omar bin laden, who
afternoon. he ll put that out. he has an appearance on another cable news network later on. don. carol costello is here. wonder which one? just saying, shannon? the only reason we re not saying is because it s on fox. thank you, carol. you said it, not me. all right. so listen. a major tea party unveiled a surprise. tell bus that? that s right. a day full of surprises. tea party express unveiled their first senate endorsement. who gets it? who is the win never his name is john bruning. he s the republican attorney general in nebraska. you know he s the senator, democratic senator. tea party express is targeting him.
kids full initially and at least for now, they could fall into the sway of extremists teachings once more. boys whose faith in god was so strong they would have given their live, now, putting their faith in this country s jusce system to give them their lives back. so, cnn, mohammed jamjoon. joins us, when will it be known if and when those young boise can be released? nobody quite know, we were asking administrators at the school. we were there at the rehabilitation center, and asking intelligence officials, they ve only been able to tell us that they believe these boys will probably spend at least a couple boys at this center even though we know intelligence officials believe these boys are innocent, because they are my yores, that they should not be charged with a crime. that report still has to go to a