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rupert murdoch under fire in britain and in the united states. two separate u.s. agencies calling for investigations into rupert murdoch. have you heard this story? an 8-year-old boy kidnapped, murdered, then mutilated. now new york place are scouring a stream of surveillance video for answers. more on that. first, i want to begin with this. lets just plunge right into the debt negotiations at this hour. daily talks at the white house resume in one hour, and by all accounts, they a...

Investigation. i really think you want to watch, particularly if like me your press your cell phone against your ear when you talk or carry it next to your body in a pocket. weve uncovered serious questions about the research. youll hear from a brain expert who says people should be a lot more concerned. and well talk to "360." this report has changed how i use my cell phone. later, in the middle of the flooding, one familys island. they built their own levy to save their home. well show you a...

building. the media, in large part, were camped out at another location, believing that was going to be the place he would be staying. they camped out into the evening. he wanted to stay here, uptown, at his wifes apartment on the upper east side, but the apartment building said no, not wanting a 24-7 media circus, as you can imagine. dsk is facing sex crime charges, seven counts in connection with the alleged attempted raich of a hotel raid. he allegedly phoned the front desk and invi...

>> he forced her to perform oral sex on him. >> reporter: just 25 minutes later at 12:28 p.m., strauss-khan checked out of the sofitel hotel. prosecutors contend he was rushing to get to the airport. the defense says he was rushing to have lunch with his daughter before heading to the airport for a previously booked flight. >> he was scheduled to leave jfk at a flight for paris on that day, and i also have the documentation from air france which shows that the ticket was bought on may ...

The mississippi river was opened to save places like baton rouge and new orleans. attorney, saint martin parish, south of the spillway, a mandatory evacuation order goes into effect. police say all flood traps must be done by 8:00 a.m. local time. kris gutierrez is live in baton rouge with more. kris, the big worry now appears to be seepage in the levees. tell us more about that. >> reporter: especially in this area. in fact, to give you a better idea of how high the water is in baton rouge, i w...

Dominie strauss-kahn is stepping down as head of the international moneta fund. the resignation comes only days after his arrest for allegedly attempting to rape a maid in a new york city hotel. strauss-kahn writes in a formal letter to the executive board, he is resigning with, quote, infinish the sadness. he strongly denies the charges he is facing. the swollen mississippi river is expected to crest on thursday, lower than predicted. an important levy protecting thousands of acres of farmland ...

Water. this water eventually, the crest will be around tuesday. you still have a week before you get the biggest crest. how high will this water get? >> that water will reach the shed. probably be in it. definitely over those peoples porch right there. >> you believe these houses, because of the lower water and because of where we are, particularly higher area, not a high area, but a higher area, theyll be okay. >> right. they built on the river. they built with that in mind. we received backwat...

show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. thats the edge of the river. its rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississipp...

Apartment buildings. theyre all dry, even though this area of town is considerably below the current level on the mississippi. however, with the river expected to crest in this area, possibly sometime tomorrow, authorities anticipate that the water level will be about this high for the next 8-10 days. so the risk is that the levy system becomes saturated so, theyre going to have crews going up and down the levy at the ready, with sandbags, in case they find any slight breaches, so they can repai...

Greenville have been coming to the levy, looking at the river which is at the highest level its been since the great flood of 1927. during that flood, the levy system was breached, causing severe flooding throughout much of the city of greenville. officials believe its going to be different this time around. right now were walking up one of the levees that protects this city from the flood waters of the mississippi river. its been strengthened over the years, and local officials believe that it ...