business at the store just down from harris is way down. normally, he says the station makes more than $4,000 a day. now it s a few hundred. he says after more than ten years, it s no longer open 24 hours a day. we open now at 6:00 and close at 10:00. and we still in debt. reporter: the mississippi is expected to crest tuesday or wednesday. after that, the water levels will slowly go down. some casino owners are hoping to open by the memorial day weekend. for others, like hara s here that have a parking lot full of water, it will take longer. ted rowlands, cnn, tunica, mississippi. we ll show you live pictures above memphis, tennessee. you can see the homes there, that are facing some sort of flooding as this cresting situation just putting so much pressure on the levee system there. but we are told that the levees are holding. we got that information just a short time ago from the commander for the core the
personal information. that s a live picture. cnn in-depth on these troubled waters all lies on the swollen mississippi, cresting at levels not seen in 70 years in memphis, tennessee. thousands of people evacuated, including tammy everett. she joins us by phone from a shelter in tuneca, mississippi. tammy, tell us what happened to you. caller: i got evacuated out of my home. and tuneca is cut off. and the water has come up so high, we couldn t get our stuff out. there s like 300 people who lost their whole house. and they couldn t get their clothes and belongings. and some people up here don t even have clothes. and we haven t heard from our governor, haley barbour or the city officials to tell us anything. tammy, let me ask you, this has been described as a
hispanic vote. it slipped in 2010 to 60%. democrats have a commanding lead and there are democratic groups who say these totals are actually a little off and are undercounting how well the democrats did in 2010. the bottom line is they had slippage in 2010 compared to 06 and 08. that s one of the many factors that led to democrats taking a beating in the 2010 elections. if the president is going to win re-election, he has to up that total. thanks a lot. i know you ll be watching and so will we. we re going to carry that speech live on cnn. that happens at 3:30 this afternoon eastern time. now to the other pressing national conversation, lowering the price of gas. it s averaging $3.95 a gallon. dana bash says if the rhetoric sounds familiar, it s because you ve heard it all before.
the best combination of size and capability. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. one former navy s.e.a.l. says the unspoken code is to be a quiet professional. but he is providing us with some insight into the mission to capture and kill osama bin laden. chris spent ten years as a navy s.e.a.l. he s currently vice president of a company that provides products and training for police, fire departments and other first responders and he joins us from cleveland. first of all, thanks for being here. give us a sense of how the s.e.a.l. team prepared for this mission. thanks for having me, suzanne. the s.e.a.l.s had an exact replica of this compound that was built just off of the base at bagram in afghanistan. they trained on this site hundreds and hundreds of times. they knew the height of every wall, the thickness of every wall, the distance from one wall to the next. they knew every intimate detail in that compound just like you or i would know every detail in
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