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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 h...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

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John vilsack didnt look at the whole videotape. didnt ask when ms. sherrod worked for the usda and not 24 years ago and she didnt. we could have waited all day. we could have had media circus, said the deputy chief of staff at the white house. we took decisive action. a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere. jim mecina didnt look at the whole videotape. didnt first ask if the decisive action might have been like sending drafuss to devils island. a good example of how to respond in th...

Inviting media circus in this atmosphere. to paraphrase james lot, mr. mecina, mr. emmanuel, everyone is remodelling this president to something generic and safe and electable in 2012 on the slimmest of margins to be media and circus free and better suited to this atmosphere as possible. let obama be obama? and that advice must be heeded by one man above all others can you give us some -- specifically some things he said that would help us mr. gibbs was asked at this afternoons press briefing. a...

We could have had a media circus said the deputy chief of staff at the white house. but we took decisive action and its a good kpachl of how to respond in this atmosphere. jim mussina didnt ask if the decisive action might have been like sending dra fus to devils island. it is a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere, this atmosphere. this atmosphere exists because the people around him let this president dumbed down. the question used to be fire it up, the rhetorical question, ready ...

Worked for usda not 24 years ago. we could have waited all day. we could have had a media circus said the deputy chief of staff at the white house. but we took decisive action and its a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere. jim mussina didnt ask if the decisive action might have been like sending dreyfus to devils island. it is a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere, this atmosphere. this atmosphere exists because the people around him let this president be dumbed down....

Leaders of the democratic party, the president said, and im quoting, we are done. the president was given a number of standing ovations by the members of the democratic party there. he in turn returned their ovation. he was brought when joe biden and president obama came out, they were chanted with that often used in the campaign "fire it up, ready to go", he said he was going to deliver the promise made to all americans. we are joined now again by the anchor of special report, bret baier and ou...