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been carrying throughout the east coast. back to you. >> no doubt about that. thanks. well continue to check in with you. lets check in with affiliate wcbs whos driving around in brooklyn, see what the scene is there. >> doing everything that residents can expect and even more. well get by this. we will get by this. >> there are some gutsy calls involved here. when you start telling people to evacuate, thats something many have never been told to do before. when you make the decision i...

Thousands in the south as the mississippi river keeps rising. the coast guard now reopening a 15-mile stretch of the mississippi river near the town of natchez. water levels are so high, officials had to close that part of the river on sunday because they feared any wake from a boat, any boat traffic, could damage the straining nearby levees. >> more than 9,000 people so far, both in louisiana and mississippi, have been forced to get out. leave behind their flooded homes, pack what belongings th...

not going to be kept private, obviously at this point and theyre speaking out this morning. >> thats right. weve got new details on the confession from schwarzenegger that he fathered a child, a long time family staff member more than a decade ago. todays "new york times" reports the child is a boy, about 14 years old, and his mother is working in the schwarzeneggers home while she was pregnant. at the same time the paper says schwarzeneggers wife maria shriver was with the youngest fo...

The corps plans to open those gates until the flow rate reaches 125 cubic feet per second. ever wonder how much more type you have left to live? there is a dna test that could answer that question for you. would you take it if you had that option? the medical breakthrough is breaking open a pandoras box of controversy over that question. and new rounds of deadly violence targeting christians in the middle east over the weekend. but we are not hearing much from the white house about this growing ...

People? those types of decisions require precise measurements. >> head for that white levee break over there. >> coming up. >> bob holmes and his team of usgs scientists have a critical job in the fight against the flood. using sensitive gps-syncedp doppler instruments they can precisely measure the rivers flow through the demolished levee. its been averaging 3 million gallons per second. why is that important to find out the flow rate? >> the corps is interested in diverting water fthrough the ...

Come back and they dont show up. in the meantime you have heavy rains and flash flooding. the rescue teams were scrambling because in the very aim area last june flash floods came and swept away 20 campers to their death. this time the rescuers new the little missouri river that flows through there was three times the flow rate. they sent a helicopter sunday but it had to turn back because of bad weather. it wasnt until late last night they finally spotted a campfire and early this morning they ...

Coast guard commandant here in the studio. thad allen, welcome. lets start with the spill cam, it was always up there 24/7, pulsating. did those images accomplish anything? >> first of all, i thought it created transparency on the response. early on there were issues whether or not bp was releasing the video. we had a long conversation. we knew it was inevitable this stuff had to be seen by the public. we made it the policy we would be releasing it. also that video was the only information we ha...

The one that said 75% of the oil is taken care of. the more i read it, the less satisfied i am with the thoroughness of the presentation. there are sweeping assumptions here. how do you feel about the report when we read, okay, were just going to have to deal with this quarter thats left. are you confident that thats -- that what this report encompasses is true? >> i go back to flow rate. early on there were huge questions about how much oil was actually coming out of the well. as you know, it w...

Barrels a day with a 10% error rate on either side of it. once you know the flow rate and you know the well is capped, then you know theres a proximate total amount of oil discharged in this event. that raises the question, what oil went where and what was done with it. this is the first attempt to lay that out there and start to have this conversation. i dont think its an end all, be all, but its more information than we had before. >> bp said its learned a lot during this whole process. im ass...

Quarter thats left. are you confident that thats what this report encompasses is true? >> i go back to flow rate. early on there were huge questions about how much oil was actually coming out of the well. as you know it went from one to five to 12 to 25,000. we finally got a range that was developed by a government team of the 35 to 60,000 barrels a day. just in the last few weeks weve been able through pressure readings on the well and better information, have been able to bring that down to 53...