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School. >> im kind of an -- a straight-a student. >> reporter: alex lives in this trailer with three other teenagers who are also dreamers. they work cash jobs, construction and yard cleaning, to pay for food, rent, and utilities while they attend high school. you left mexico city to come here for a better life, and yet youre living in this trailer park. and you know, really struggling. is this kind of what you were dreaming, where you would end up? >> not even close. >> reporter: a few doors aw...

The dream lives on for many children. >> reporter: somewhere in phoenix is a tiny trailer park. people who know this place told us, its where the dreamers live. dreamers are kids who want to go on to college or serve in the u.s. military, but cant. because theyre undocumented. we came here to meet two students. we cant identify them, because theyre in the country illegally. alex is 17. he says he came to the from mexico about four years ago on his own to chase a dream. >> i had always dreamed of...

>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white h...

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...