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immigration. well show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. im joe johns. youre in "the situation room." we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. lets go straight to cnns senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now were hearing its already happened. why? >...

republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- w...

Here is whats topping the news now. the man convicted of the 1988 lockerbie bombing gave reuters an exclusive interview saying the truth about what really happened would seen emerge. abdelbaset al megrahi said his role in this attack has been exaggerated and hed like to be left alone as he only has a few months to live. he reportedly has as little as three months to live. that was in 2009 when scotland released him on compassionate grounds. some parents are refusing some vac keens and delaying...

Influence the dialogue or to be the nominee, and there are some that do. some i know, some i dont. >> what about rick perry? he loses the straw poll in florida. romney won in michigan. do you think his candidacy is fading? >> i dont know. the pundits will tell you better than i. it will go up and down a million times. keep in mind, the press wants a battle, so they are going to knock down who is ahead or the woman behind. i will say some of these candidates positions really trouble me to not bel...

situation room" starts right now. >> thanks, very much happening right now. the gop battle for the white house. eating up here in tampa, florida. just three hours away from hearing eight presidential candidates go ahead it head. they will join me on cnns first ever tea party republican presidential debate. can the texas governor rick perry maintain his growing lead in the polls despite a highly controversial stance on social security? or will mitt romney come from behind and once again...

not been corroborated. i want to stress that. it is credible, but it has not been corroborated. but we do live in a world where must take these threats seriously, and we certainly will. the nypd is deploying additional resources around the city and taking other steps to keep our city safe. >> we want to be very careful what we tell you tonight. with that in mind a senior intelligence official tells us the plot was to involve three individual, one of them an american citizen. the offici...

north carolina first gets hit on saturday, and then somewhere in new england after that, even in areas that dont get a direct hit though, theres the flooding damage, wind damage and power outages, a major pain. youre looking at live pictures from folly beach in south carolina. residents keeping an eye on irene. it could pass by though. they havent been told to leave though. they are urged to take precautions. evacuations are under way though in the north carolina outer banks. the gover...

Floodwaters breachingw a levee in missouri. the governor deploying the national guard. with us on the phone, poplar bluff police chief roland. give us the latest there. we have been watching this levee moment by moment. >> we have had concerns of the levee in butler county of failure, and earlier this morning that did fail. and what it did was cause a large influx of water to rush through that levee and into rural butler county. there are several thousand residents in butler county affected and ...

Feeding the people, identifying if they are -- i know theres still a lot of people missing. they are still looking for those. some of those may have perished. some may not have been able to contact and the information flow is challenging. so determining their -- doing their damage, continuing their damage assessments and analyzing what their needs are and then getting the assistance out to the needed population are the three basic priorities at this time and will be for the next week or possibly...

Tsunami waves. thats been our primary tlurt right now is getting ready to support if there are impacts from these tsunamis. >> mr. fugate, this is hala gorani. how are you preparing for potential damage from these waves on the west coast? in some communities that might see waves up to seven, eight feet high? >> well, right now the principal thing here is life safety, is to get people to -- that are being evacuated to move to higher ground or to stay out of those areas. we cant prevent the damage...