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Strauss-kahn off a flight headed to paris. a housekeeper said he attacked her. his attorneys say he will plead not guilty. two spiritual leaders in charge of mosques in south florida are due in court. they are father and son. the charges related to alleged crimes committed between 2008 and 2010 and have nothing to do with the recent killing of al qaeda leader, osama bin laden. lets check in with jackie jeras. overall the flooding as a result of the mississippi. >> right. this is a work in prog...

things. floods from the mississippi river are heading their way. mandatory evacuations are in parishes. they are from the spillway. four flood gates are open to divert the mississippi floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans. ed is joining us there. ed is at the scene for me. are a lot of people panic stricken? >> i think a lot of people knew it was coming, quite frankly. we are in the town cross springs, which is downstream from the spillway opened up yesterday afternoon. really, ...

How he would know that at this point, im not sure. but we also now know how the fbi is handling some of the information seized in the raid, how its being processed to look for possible threats. >> weve known about this multiagency task force thats been sifting through the computers and the flash drives and the paperwork, trying to get information. and im told by law enforcement sources that some of that information has been pushed out to the fbi, that many of the 56 fbi offices around the countr...

Pregnant. >> yes. >> when this happened. so how -- lets talk about how you told your children, the news of this. what was their reaction? >> well, it is funny that you should ask, because last night i could not wait to tell my children and i told them this morning and my daughter was shocked. she was stunned when she first found out the news. the boys were happy. last year, this is pretty relevant, i was on my way to taking my son conor to a little league baseball game, and he had just found out...

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Dead or alive? >> well, in the intelligence briefings to congress, they believed he was alive and in pakistan and i would continually ask them, a they would say, we are working on it. well, today, the hard work paid off, and we are all in a better form than we were before. he did order the attacks against our great city, but there is still much more that needs to be done, and rebuilding and healing and taking care of the people that were hurt on 9/11. >> right. you talk passionately about the wo...

Same equipment that failed on the deep water horizon. we are issuing drilling permits to drilling companies with the same equipment that failed so badly a year ago today. >> you know, when ken salazar said its a work in progress, i knew we were in a world of trouble. thats why i keep going back to that quote. are we still using the same blow-out preventers? im amazed the government is saying yeah, yeah, yeah, keep using the same thing. >> its the same. >> clearly, the system is better because of...

That failed in the bp disaster. last month, a government commission report found out the preventer didnt fail because it was broken, but a design flaw. a flaw that haunts them today. this week, the obama administration says her going to improve rules. thats down the road. for now, its business as usualç still, in recent months, officials approved 46 new shallow water wells and ten permits for deep water drilling projects in the gulf of mexico. projects just like the one in the gulf water. syste...

Certification, and a way to do communications, command and control, surveillance systems where we can put them where we needed them, i think all of that should be part of doctrine moving ahead. trying to do that actually during a spill when we had never done it before on that order of magnitude presented a significant number of challenges. i think another issue was taking control of the air space, which helped eliminate some of those problems as far as coordination of surveillance. and if i had ...

Used in the civilian courtrooms but for some reason, the military prosecutors say they would have a harder time using it in the military tribunals. thats one of the reasons they believe these trials would be better in civilian courts in the u.s. and the fact weve been testing civilian trials in the rights of them for 200 years and that the military commissions are still a work in progress. nonetheless, he says he has no choice. >> but they lost the political argument and some would argue they ne...