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Done. by doing that, they reduce the wake the barges create. you mentioned what an important port natchez is, it is the gay way from the midwest to the rest of the world, inland part way up the mississippi river, and you say it serves the world. it serves over 50 countries in europe, latin america, the far east. grain is the big thing but it is other recall materials that go through natchez. it is lumber. steel. cotton. wood pulp. lots of things come down the river and go all over the planet. >>...

minutes. a prison official reportedly ordered the suicide watch as a precaution. powerful reaction from his angry defenders and fans and from the alleged victim. first a look at the other stories were drilling down on tonight. the nba is a tough game. >> look at that. >> but the tough es guy in the league may never have scored a point. the guy in charge of the phoenix suns comes out of the closet and into the arena. and want to take on the bad guys? ask a new york attorney general. no,...

>> 70% of people have packed up and gone already. >> reporter: for 70 years, butte la rose has been an electic group of cajuns. >> whats it like to be around here knowing whats coming down the river. >> its just a somber mood, you know, everybodys just doing what they got to do. >> his bayou community will soon be flooded. >> im going to get three feet of water in it. three to four foot. >> but pierre is about to learn that the floodwaters will likely be worse than anything he imagined, pierre a...

Anything he imagined. pierre and hundreds of residents pack into the towns firehouse to hear flood level predictions from the army corps of engineers. >> im telling you, depth of water from right here, 15 feet. okay? >> we understand. >> this is probably up to the roof of this building. >> he said theres going to be 15 foot of water. its over with. its over with. >> reporter: its over for butte larose, the words too painful for people to hear. >> whos going to answer the questions? >> wheres the...

biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. theres no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway app...

new orleans and baton rouge would be saved. also mirroring arizona, the second state with some stiff immigration laws. the governor nathan beale signed that law yesterday. the author will be here with me in the studio live and also someone whos against it. you want to hear the conversation. also another conversation youll be interested to hear, a rare interview with hank aaron, talking about baseball, how its letting down the black community. also talking about who the real home ru...

>> whats it like to be around here knowing whats coming down the river? >> its just a somber mood. everybodys just doing what they got to do. >> reporter: his bayou community will soon be flooded. >> im going to get three to four foot of water. >> reporter: but pierre is about to learn that the floodwaters will likely be worse than anything he imagined. pierre and hundreds of butte larose residents pack into the towns firehouse to hear flood level predictions from the army corp of engineers. >> ...

Firehouse to hear flood level predictions from the army corps of engineers. >> im telling you, depth of water from right here, 15 feet. >> its over with. >> its over with. >> reporter: its over for larose, the words too painful for people to hear. >> whos going to answer the question?! >> reporter: and the sadness of the moment brings kelly trim to tears. >> its worse than we thought. its really worse than we thought. we thought maybe we might have water in our yard and stuff. this is going to c...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the waters got to ...

pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. lets assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess its no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but its startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which...