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the republican candidates take the stage in this, their last face-off before the florida primarily. ill moderate tonights republican debate right here on cnn. everyones talking about the tension on the tarmac. in your face airport encounter between arizonas republican governor. what was that all about? and newt gingrich vows to establish a permanent colony on the moon. will that idea take off with voters? im wolf blitzer on the campus of the university of north florida in jackson...

and now, this is the man who allegedly strapped that thing in place in hopes of prying money out her parents. paul doug peters, age 51, an australian finance executive. paul doug peters arrested yesterday outside of louisville, kentucky, by a local fbi swat team in connect with the case that has gripped australia for nearly two weeks. let me take you back to august 3rd. this was the scene in a wealthy enclave outside of sidney where this sl-year-old spent a heldish ten hours. she was f...

Silos. we got back from redwood, mississippi, ten miles north and there the school board held an emergency meeting to discuss the need to build a berm around the school to have the emergency plan yiagsz. building a big wall of mud and clay but so far its working. back in vicksburg, companys efforts failed. they spent two weeks building a levee, last night it sprung a leak and water was filling up that office building. some of the efforts work, some of the earth dont but everybody trying to stay ...

Relatives or friends. many more people could be affected if any of these walls were to breach. >> rick: people are being responsible, as that gentleman told you. a lot of people are also taking precaution to try to keep the floods from hitting their property. what are they doing? >> reporter: thats right. hear we are in downtown vicksburg, a city battle. there are little battles going on throughout the delta. weve heard of farmers who have built berms around their farmhouses or silos. up the roa...

>> glenn: last week i was out in chicago. for the day. i had a chance to talk to a trader at the chicago mercantile exchange. some stunning numbers he threw my way to show how high the price of food has risen and will possibly rise. let me show you the farm land we have devoted to corn. here it is. u.s. farmers plant 92.2 million-acres of corn this year. that is 4 million-acres more than we planted last year. meanwhile, our corn supply is nearing a 15-year low. why is that? why are we having pro...

Trees like quail hide and i waved and went on. we see them all the time. at one time i think 30,000 or 40,000 people crossed my ranch each year. >> jim, thank you and good luck. i hope congress listens to you. thank you. >> thank you. >> now we want to hear from you about the february, 09 stimulus bill. we want you to sound off. has the 2009 stimulus bill helped you or your family or your community? we are asking you to go to greta wire and answer those questions. heres what some of you have alr...

The bigger problem may be something thats very structural here in the u.s., piers, and that is the fact that the federal government develops and does develop very excellent guidelines. but the states are actually not obligated nor the cities to follow those guidelines. we have a federalist system. we dont have really national direction of disaster preparedness planning as they do in japan, as they do in great britain and israel and so forth. so we have more than 100 committees and subcommittees ...

So we have more than 100 committees and subcommittees in congress that are appropriating money in these various silos, and doing this and that. we dont have a central focus and a central plan. were really quite worried about that. the main problem is lack of investment and things that well need to protect us in this kind of event. >> well, thank you both very much. the key point really is that after japan, we have to think the unthinkable and be prepared for that because nobody, i think, could h...

And not accountable for result, according to the gao. asked yesterday about the critical analysis of the department, transportation secretary ray lahood said this. >> i dont have any comment, i dont know enough about it to even give you a comment. >> reporter: the gao report describes d.o.t. maze of five agencies, 6,000 employees and 100 sprit programs with separate fund -- 100 separate programs for separate streams. a bottleneck that senator tom coburn says the states should be allowed to bypas...

Intel time and time again. you have got katrina. actually go back to the 2000 election recount. >> isnt it the structures are too big to manage? when we talk about too big to fail, its also too big to succeed. at a certain point with the silos and people confused, its the same thing on both sides. i dont think necessarily its malfeasance, just fuel inability to manage these overcomplexed structures. >> jimmy carter is always nailed for being incompetent on many fronts. but jimmy carter also happ...