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Gift for understatement. yes, there are differences, tensions, and, really, they were caused by the white house not laying the ground work for what was a significant piece of news that maybe israelis feel alone, abandoned, jilted, the night before their prime minister was coming to the oval office. and, even if the white house thinks they have the best policy, which i disagree with, but say though do, the way they handled this, both in the lead up to it and after, has been abysmal so that is why...

The tour de france winner inject banned substances before several events. armstrongs attorney responded saying he has passed nearly 500 drug tests over 20 years of competition and lance tweeted enough said. president obamas meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house now. their meeting is probably pretty tense avnet ft tense. ron, status update on this, have they finished the meeting and have they begun talking to the media? >> reporter: pretty tense is an underst...

And it will go straight to summer. this morning we have rain from boston northwards up into vermont and new hampshire. thats where the heaviest of the rain is currently. what i like is it appears matter plan and delaware will get breaks of sunshine. and that means we wont see a day completely cloudy. we will get some breaks of sun. it will be warmer than it was yesterday in the mid-atlantic and then the storms will pop back out. so notice the temperatures first. well be in the mid-70s today from...

Kind enough to come back and join us tonight. terry, lets start with the reaction to the pictures of mr. strauss-kahn handcuffed. thats caused a bit of a blowback in france. almost sympathy? >> that would be an understatement, john. i spoke to my mother this morning. how upsetting she found these images. if you knew my mom, you would know she does not continue tone in any way or form sexual violence, but you would never imagine you would see something like this in france and it is, indeed, illeg...

That you would serve. suzanne malveaux, cnn, atlanta. a lot of people love that like button on facebook, but one mom takes her love to a whole new level. that is an understatement. you are not going the believe this one next. whats this option? thats new.

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...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

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 ...

Use of physical force would seem to undermine the likelihood of useful connection with a source. it might also increase a sources hatred of the united states and interest in suicide or willingness to be killed. note the word might in that sentence. thats what i mean about careful academic language. it might. what theyre saying is, torture might increase a sources hatred of the united states. keep that sort of understatement in mind as you consider the language of this military study on torture. ...

Keep that sort of understatement in mind as you consider the language of this military study on torture. in the course of an interrogation, errors in strait ji, approach planning and actions are in many instances irreversible. the use of force by the united states may also have caused short and long-term damage to u.s. interests and credibly some of which may not be known. and in its key findings on enhanced interrogation techniques the study says the preponderance of reports seems to weigh agai...