well, the obama administration now insists that bin laden had some sort of help from the pakistani government. >> people have been surmising for quite some time. also coming up a little bit later, our tech contributor daniel sieberg has advice for those people, who know who you are, who are addicted to their gadgets. are you one of those like married to the blackberry, the iphone. >> i think so. i think so. we'll have to get the true symptoms but he was addicted to digital things and so that's why he wrote the book to try to help us all out. >> good deal. >> good stuff. but first. to that overwhelming deluge gushing from the powerful mississippi river. >> the historic flood zone is now stretching from the midwest to the gulf coast. right now the bull's eye is memphis, tennessee. abc 's jim ryan is there. >> reporter: the mighty mississippi is on the move. for millions who live along its length the river is proving to be a dangerous neighbor. from southern illinois to the gulf of mexico floodwaters are engulfing homes inch by inch.