courier, as well as associate of alleged 9/11 master mind, khalid shaikh mohammed a lead that paid off, delivering not only bin laden himself but what the cia director calls an impressive haul of information. likely leading u.s. officials down an entirely new intelligence trail. suzanne kelly, cnn, atlanta. one of his greatest achievements in office was bringing together two rival nations and a tumultuous middle east, egypt and israel. jimmy carter says you have to have all sides at negotiating table, including what the obama administration calls a terrorist organization. hamas. there have been atrocities committed by hamas and fatah and of course on occasion a lot of palestinians are killed who are not combatant. things happen in a case of serious disagreement, but the new agreement, in my opinion, is
here s one big reason. osama bin laden remains a heroic defined figure to many in the islamic world. and cnn terror analyst bergen said it would puncture his heroic glow among his followers. so should the u.s. release the bin laden death photos? facebook.com/carolcnn. i thought it was interesting, nic robertson said they re debating in pakistan whether or not they re going to blow up the bin laden compound. for similar reasons, whether or not people will come and gather at this place and consider bin laden a martyr. should they blow up the whole thing. they ve had hundreds of tourists going by. it s the talk of the neighborhood. it s already a place of interest, at the very least. carol, thanks. i can t wait for the responses. i spoke with former president jimmy carter on this very issue about whether or not this is going to have a big impact on the war on terror.
birmingham and it s sponsored by our affiliate, wvtm, and the united way. the decision to blow up a levee along the mississippi river has eased the flooding crisis around cairo, illinois, water levels have started to drop now. but now tens of thousands of acres of missouri farmland are under water. and a lot of farmers very upset. cnn s rob marciano is in mississippi county, missouri. reporter: day two of the exploding levee extravaganza, extreme measures taken for really an extreme flood owe vent. we haven t seen this level on the river here in mississippi and along the ohio since 1937. and yesterday they blew up a second levee. take a look at this video, extraordinary stuff, during the daytime. soil and earth blown above the tree tops. that is at the opposite end of this floodway so that some of the water can begin to drain. this is farmland. this is now not so good farmland, least for this year, and that has a lot of farmers
assistance for low-income women and children. we know that president obama s kicking off his fundraising for his re-election bid. what we expect in terms of where he s headed? reporter: well, there is no place like home, that is what cnn s paul steinhauser and jessica yellin telling us. he s heading home i was interesting by how much it costs to go. on the low end, you could get a ticket for $1 hundred if you were attending one of these. on the high end, $38,500, that s the legal maximum limit. i think we can all agree that is quite the pretty penny. president obama announced last monday that he was going to be running for re-election. a source telling us the contributions that he got in the 24 hours after that, 23,000 of them. and check out these numbers 2008 for his election, he raised $750 million. he s aiming for about $1 billion this time. big money. wow. yeah, and he s starting at home. got a lot of support there.
themselves. cnn s chen la reports that people are risking their lives to rescue them. reporter: a five-year-old dog traumatized being delivered to his distraught owners seeing them for the first time in a month. he doesn t respond. i m sorry, says the owner to her dog. she was alone, chained outside for ten days. we tried to save him but we couldn t get in. in to the government mandated evacuation zone a few miles from the fukushima nuclear plant. across the radiation contaminated area, animals whose owners thought they would be gone for a day, now a month later remain abandoned, some like this one, already dead of disease and starvation. the ones still alive, like this beagle, suffer. you can see its ribs.