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phillips. the state of mississippis governor says 25,000 homes could be lost in the flood as well as millions of dollars in farm products. a historical first in dublin, ireland. queen elizabeth becomes the first british monarch to step on irish soil. a security scare of a bomb hours before her arrival. pakistan is returning the tail section from the stealth helicopter that went down in the raid on osama bin ladens lair. coming as they hold a hearing on u.s./pakistani relations. ...

>> 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...

Having had it tighter in the prior white house, i will tell you, we were befuddled and frustrated by leaks of classified information. and as youll recall, president bush was outspoken about it. do i think theyve got a problem? absolutely. do i think too much information is out there about the tactical details of the operation? yes. but i think weve got to be careful. this is very difficult for the white house to control. there are now enough people in enough different agencies who have some meas...

suicide bombers, one on a motorcycle, one on foot, targettarget ed cadets in northwestern pakistan. that happening today. the two explosions killed 80 people. the academy is near the border with afghanistan. now, sources say that bin ladens widows, theyre not giving up a lot of information. the three women are described as hostile to their american questioners. the interview took place with pakistani intelligence officers in the room. and a source says only the oldest wife spoke. def...

Left behind in the attack on his compound. how much harm does that do to us and what do you think the likelihood is pakistan actually would turn that over to the chinese? >> i think it could -- it could be very devastating in terms of revealing technology, stealth technology. i actually think this is a cry for help. this is evidence of a struggle within the pakistani establishment. there are clearly factions that are pouting, that are expressing their -- how upset they are. we saw that with the ...

Pakistani army over what they knew and how ready they were when the helicopters flying over abbottabad were not like these, pakistani but american. you are in "the situation room." american stealth technology left behind in bin ladens compound. there is growing concern u.s. military engineering secrets are falling into the hands potentially of china. also, a rare look inside of a closed world. strict islamic school where young muslim are taught to hate america. the next osama bin laden may be ...

S.e.a.l.s may have been long gone by then. >> thanks very much. stealth technology, very sensitive stuff. al qaeda is vowing bin laden will not die in vain. where young people in afghanistan are being taught bin ladens message. >> reporter: here boys pray early and pray hard. this is a rare look inside of a closed world. strict islamic school in a poor neighborhood. outside the day is just dawning. but these students, some as young as 6, are already locked into a trance-like rhythm and recite ...

Disaster nearly strikes. one of the blackhawks weighed down by the stealth technology clearly seen in these crash photos loses lift as it was about to take the seals to the compounds. to those gathered to watch the sickening moment no doubt brings to mind the awful memory of the wreck that aboarded the helicopter raid to free the hostages in iran in 1979. >> the back of the helicopter hit the wall. the second problem was there was about a 15 degree difference in the temper they planned. they had...

The newsroom moments ago and it shows the tail of that black hawk helicopter that crashed at bin ladens compound in abbottabad, pakistan. it is being loaded in the back of a truck and there has been great concern this helicopter that was built with stealth technology that might have allowed it to get in there so beautifully, and that that might hold of our military secrets we wouldnt necessarily want other people to share. the pakistani military picked up the wreckage. no word yet on what happen...

So what do we do about that? >> well, they carted it away because they want to look at it. look, there is very valuable stealth technology there, some very valuable avionics technology to include electronic countermeasures, communications equipment, scrambling equipment on communications, a whole host of things that just the aerodynamic technology of that tail, which gives it the stealth technology capabilities that are so important. so i would suspect, frankly, alisyn, that the chinese are look...