mississippi, officials are saying that the river will likely rise in higher spots and even before in recorded history, higher than ever. right now officials in louisiana are facing the difficult choice of whether to open up the spillway. doing so would divert the bulging river and ease pressure on the levees that protect baton rouge, lsu, and new orleans, but it would also flood thousands of acres of farmland. there s a lot that s going to be destroyed. i think a lot will be saved hopefully, but we don t know until we do it. sad on both ends. i mean, if it opens here. the other side gets the water. it s just a decision that s, you know, will have to be made. we re told a decision could come as early as today. the louisiana governor, bobby jindal, says the flooding could ultimately affect a combined area that nearly the size of the state of connecticut. team fox coverage now. rick reichmuth, chief meteorologist in the weather center.
personal information from what they said was some 77 million playstation accounts. in that review, sony reportedly found an earlier hack may have jeopardized another 24 million customers and stole 12,000 credit and debit card numbers. according to sony those numbers came from an outdated database. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. analysts are reportedly right now combing through hard drives that we re told navy seals grabbed during the raid that targeted osama bin laden. this newly released video is said to show the scene inside the compound and some of the items people found there. one official said the raid yielded a mother load of possible intelligence. more than you would expect from somebody supposedly worried about security or that s the quote. team fox coverage now. first katherine herrige who
of islamabad by about 60 miles. now, that raid taking place in the early morning hours, at 1:15 local time a.m., bin laden s body then buried at sea hours later. americans now on high alert as the taliban and al-qaeda threaten retaliation overseas, and we ll see whether or not there have been any threats here at home. throughout the next two hours, we have team fox coverage on every angle as we get the information here, wendell goler is at white house, first, jennifer griffin has been up all night at the pentagon. we ll get a start with jennifer and tie to go blow by blow with the details and facts as we understand them now. jennifer, let s start there. good morning. reporter: good morning, bill. what we can confirm, this was a cia-led, what s called a title 50 operation, that means it was covert by nature, the seal team six that you mentioned was on loan to the cia, they were an essential part of this mission, there were four helicopters, there were
parkinson s disease. shannon: this is just beginning of a controversy over this. thank you both for weighing in. certainly. you re welcome. shannon: on the ground and reaching out. fema officials and white house cabinet members arriving in the region any moment to see for themselves the destruction that crosses across the southern u.s. seven states reported a total of 342 storm deaths. i m shannon bream. we are live in washington. we have team fox coverage this hour from the hardest hit areas. we ll get to that storm damage in just a bit. we begin this hour with breaking news out of libya. the libyan government says muammar qaddafi has survived a nato air strike but claims that his youngest son was killed along with three of qaddafi s grandchildren when a missile huck his son s home. david lee miller was able to
lost. but the prosecute damage which is obviously extensive, that s something we can do something about. the president signed the disaster declaration for the entire state of alabama which will provide federal assistance to those who need it. we have team fox coverage from tuscaloosa and news from alabama. what are you seeing, jonathan? reporter: we are seeing destruction. we want to give you a comparison. take a look at this google map of what this community used to look like. it was mostly residential with a few shops, and a church here, some warehouses. and you come back to our live scene and you see destruction from where i am standing all the way up to the hill. so far the death toll stands at six. authorities are amazed that it is not higher. shepard: i am told the