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Escaping. but new york prosecutors say in fact he was. >> given the strength of the case as it now stands and the potential for additional evidence to be generated, the defendant has additional motivation to flee. >> reporter: prosecutors say a maid had entered his suite at the sofitel hotel to clean, then was assaulted by strauss-kahn. he was naked, they said, and forced her to perform a sex act in the bathroom. >> french national. >> reporter: a law enforcement source said the maid identified ...

Forced her to perform a sex act in the bathroom. >> french national. >> reporter: a law enforcement source said the maid identified him in a line-up. prosecutors later said he had engaged in what they called similar conduct on at least one other occasion. in court strauss-kahns attorney told a judge that "this is a very, very defensible case" and argued for bail. >> there are significant issues that we have already found simply with preliminary investigation that in our judgment makes it quite l...

>> restrained a hotel employee inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her. >> reporter: detectives say they traced dsk because he had left a cell phone in his $3,000-a-night hotel room here in new york citys times square. police recovered the phone and said they convinced a hotel employee to lie when strauss-kahn called to ask about it. the french imf chief said he was at the airport, about to board a plane to paris. strauss-kahn was detained by new york cit...

What did you see? how bad was it? >> reporter: well, you know, keep in mind this is the next city thats in line for this historic amount of floodwater. both the mississippi river, in this case the yazoo river as well, the tributary. so its all focusing on vicksburg. vicksburg is next under the gun. already, though, heavy flooding. we went on that boat trip. these are suburbs that are found to the north of vicksburg, about five different subdivisions. theyre all underwater. 1,700 people have been...

Inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her. >> reporter: detectives say they traced dsk because he had left a cell phone in his $3,000-a-night hotel room here in new york citys times square. police recovered the phone and said they convinced a hotel employee to lie when strauss-kahn called to ask about it. the french imf chief said he was at the airport, about to board a plane to paris. strauss-kahn was detained by new york city police as the plane was about...

There are a lot of flashy lawyers who are very good at cross-examination. but they dont prepare. he prepares like a boring sort of old-school lawyer, but hes got the flash and dash of a sort of a courtroom performer. i mean, he is the best of both worlds. my first day as an assistant u.s. attorney he was trying a case, an impossible heroin conspiracy case in brooklyn federal court. he won that case. he won the puffy combs case. very difficult case. i mean, this is a guy who wins cases. and that ...

Affected by the floods. the river crested in memphis six days ago, is still 11 feet above flood stage. lets talk now with martin savidge, who is in vicksburg, mississippi for us tonight. marty, you took a boat tour today of flood-ravaged areas. what did you see? how bad was it? >> reporter: well, you know, keep in mind this is the next city thats in line for this historic amount of floodwater thats coming down both the mississippi river, in this case the yazoo river as well and the tributary. so...

Didnt know who he was. most americans dont know who he is. i mean, it looks very bad for him. but there are a lot of questions still to be answered about the facts in this case. >> he also reportedly called back to the hotel looking for his cell phone, and the security officer at the hotel lied, said that they had the phone, which they didnt, and asked him where he was. and thats how police realized he was at the airport. and when they got him, he was actually on this air france flight in the fi...

He was naked, they said, and forced her to perform a sex act in the bathroom. >> french national. >> reporter: a law enforcement source said the maid identified him in a line-up. prosecutors later said he had engaged in what they called similar conduct on at least one other occasion. in court strauss-kahns attorney told a judge that "this is a very, very defensible case" and argued for bail. >> there are significant issues that we have already found simply with preliminary investigation that in ...

almost anything could blow it sky high. especially if this turns out to be true. >> we think that there had to have been some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we dont know who or what that support network was. >> well, senator kerry today downplaying those concerns, saying theres no evidence of a network that kept bin laden hidden for five years. the pakistanis claim theyre investigating, but theyve got a credibility problem in this country because even bef...