of l.a. this morning. >> it was unbelievable to even hear this morning, but yes, according to the los angeles times, quite a bombshell this morning they're breaking a story out of california that the former governor, arnold schwarzenegger, admitted fathering a child with a former member of his household staff and that is why the marriage broke up. schwarzenegger says it happened over a decade ago, but that he only told his wife maria shriver, after he left office earlier this year. >> that's when shriver moved out of their brentwood mansion. she has not commented. schwarzenegger says he has no excuses for his behavior, he's sorry for the hurt he caused his wife and children. casey wian is live in los angeles this morning. when the couple announced they would be splitting and living separately but didn't say they would be divorced but tongues were wagging, why now. now we have the answer. >> absolutely. it's hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become even more controversial after his two terms as california governor, than he was during, but he has. "the los angeles times" as you mentioned reporting before he ran for office in 2003, schwarzenegger fathered a child with a member of his household staff. according to a statement he gave the paper, quote, after leaving the governor's office, i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. there are no excuses and i take full responsibility for the hurt i have caused. i have apologized to maria, my children and my family. i am truly sorry. it was only a week ago that schwarzenegger and his wife maria shriver announced they had separated after 25 years of marriage. then they said in a joint statement, at this time we are living apart while we work on the future of our relationship. that relationship was clearly strained during schwarzenegger's run for governor when several women came forward and claimed the actor groped them. schwarzenegger then apologized and shriver stood by her husband. the so-called govern ator took office amid promises of reforming california's notoriously gridlocked government but when he left there were record budget deficits and low approval ratings. >> you know the other thing that people are remarking on today, how was he able to keep this a secret for ten years? an entire decade and only have it be known only to his immediate family, at least what it appears, ten years later? >> some of the things "the los angeles times" is reporting including the fact that schwarzenegger has apparently according to one source been providing financial support for this child and also the former household employee who the paper is not naming, said that she wanted to put in her 20 years, survive 20 years of working for the couple. she did that and retired from their employ about two years ago. that's about all we know. >> casey wian from los angeles, thanks so much. the schwarzenegger stunner leads us to our question of the day. we want to know if a politici politician's private transgressions matter to their public life. >> tell us what you think. e-mail us, tweet us or go to our blog or facebook. we will be reading your comments later in the hour. to the case sending shock waves around the world, the head of the international monetary fund, dominique strauss-kahn is behind bars in new york city charged with trying to rape a hotel maid. at his arraignment yesterday, a judge ordered strauss-kahn held without bail saying the 62-year-old considered a frontrunner until now to be the next president of france saying he is a flight risk. he was arrested on a plane moments before takeoff for paris. and right now, he's locked up at new york city's notorious rikers island in an 11 by 13 foot cell, separated from the general population. a defense disagrees but prosecutors say there is strong evidence to back the victim's story. >> restrained a hotel employee inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her when he was unsuccessful he forced her to perform oral sex on him. >> he is presumed innocent and this is a very defensible case. there are significant issues he with have already found with the preliminary investigation and in our judgment makes it likely he might ultimately be exonerated. >> dominique strauss-kahn will be back in court friday. our deb feyerick has been following the story and joins us with the latest this morning. >> i can tell you as you said this is a man who could have been the president of france if polls are correct. he has gone from the height of his career to the very depths but his lawyer says forensic evidence will not be consistent with a crime that suggests this was a forcible act. remember, he is charged with attempted rape after the chamber maid went into the hotel room and apparently when she was in there, he attempted to grope her and force himself on her. now, the alibi, dominique strauss-kahn's alibi, that right now is under investigation. his lawyer says one of the reasons he was hurrying to the airport was not because he was actually trying to get away from the scene, but, in fact, because he had lunch with his daughter and then had a scheduled flight, a flight that was scheduled weeks before this incident ever took place. the judge did deny bail. she said the fact he was at jfk suggests to her that, in fact, there was nothing that could keep him in new york city. his lawyer argued otherwise saying he has a daughter here, he has a house in georgetown, still the judge set -- denied bail. i spoke to a former prosecutor who says probably the bail issue will be renewed at the next hearing, but right now he is charged with criminal sexual acts in the first degree, attempted rape in the first degree along with a handful of other charges, but his lawyer saying this is defensible and possibly they will be exonerated. meanwhile more is coming out on this poor woman that apparently she's a religious woman, devout woman, and she has a teenage daughter and from a french speaking part of west africa. >> wow. you know there have been others asking about that flight risk, the questions about that flight risk, people saying look what happened with roman polanski. france and the u.s. don't have extradition agreements. >> not when it comes to sex crimes. again, this is a man who has so many resources behind him, he has millions of dollars and so he could have technically if he has nothing to keep him in france now, it seems his reputation is certainly not intact he could have gone anywhere and disappeared. >> there are those in france who see that perp walk, new york police department, nypd tradition and they're outraged by that. in france you are presumed innocent until proven guilty as the case here, but they say you would not see something like that of a public figure in france until convicted of a crime. they say the united states is cruelty. >> not even politicians. isn't it a crime to publish photos of people in handcuffs if they have not been -- >> in certain countries. i spoke to a former prosecutor of sex crimes, does this appear to be a rush to judgment, was this an overly aggressive move going to the airport, getting him off the plane since you have what amounts to an allegation and this former prosecutor said no, it's not. they really had no alternative. once this chamber maid filed charges against this man saying this happened, she went straight to report this, when she told her bosses they called the police, the police called special victims unit, they had no alternative because he was set to leave the country. they did what they felt was right. his lawyer says, look, this is a man who actually called hotel security to say look, i've forgotten my phone, could you bring it to the airport for me. and when he did that, police said, tell him we'll bring it to him and that's when he was taken off the plane. >> deb feyerick, thanks. in the 7:00 hour, deb will talk to a prosecutor turned crime novelist, linda fairstein, about the especially trained new york detectives who captured the imf chief before he could leave the country. talking about pakistan now, they've agreed to return the tail section of the stealth chopper that crashed during the osama bin laden raid. that exchange is cannot expected to happen today. navy s.e.a.l.s were forced to blow up the helicopter trying to destroy any evidence after a mechanical malfunction. but the tail section has remained intact. senator john kerry is in pakistan, the head of the foreign senate relations committee announcing the deal to bring the wreckage home, calling it step number one towards easing tensions of these countries. secretary of state hillary clinton will be heading to pakistan soon. a date for that visit hasn't been says. the state department says she will conduct discussions to improve cooperation between the two countries. it is a strained relationship, senator kerry's visit there paving the way for that tail section of that chopper to come back, but a lot of work to be done on this relationship. >> absolutely. in libya now, explosions and flames lighting up the night sky in tripoli. the government says nato air strikes targeted two key buildings downtown. one was the government's anti-corruption headquarters and the other across the street, housed the head of tripoli's police force. no word yet on casualties and no comment from nato. seven weeks after a san francisco giants fan suffered a traumatic brain injury in a brutal attack outside dodgers stadium the lapd is expected to hold a news conference with new details about the persons of interest in this case. the attack happened in the parking lot on opening day. the victim, bryan stow, remains unconscious and in critical condition. the 42-year-old paramedic and father of two, was taken out of a medically induced coma yesterday and moved to a hospital closer to his home. brace yourself for a busy summer in the skies. the air transport association's annual forecast predictions showing that u.s. airlines will carry 206 million passengers from next month through august. that's about 34,000 more per day than last year. that's still substantially below the all-time peak back in 2007 before the recession hit. if you got used to getting a little extra leg room or elbow room. >> don't get used to it. >> the planes were crowded. oh well. that's changing. might be crowded in the space shuttle "endeavour." i think they have a lot of equipment up there. rocketing towards tomorrow's rendezvous with the international space station. it's "endeavour's" first full day in space on its last mission ever. we're getting a whole new look at yesterday's launch. a woman aboard a delta flight over florida took this video of "endeavour" breaking through the cloud cover heading for space. you saw the liftoff from here, live on cnn, and then here's this woman taking a delta flight over florida and sees this and snaps it on her phone and wow. >> that's pretty cool. a unique perspective. a little bit of a bonus in the skies. let's check in with jacqui jeras, she's got a look at the morning headlines. it was nice enough for them to be able to do that launch. >> only a 70% go for the weather. good thing everything turned out. not looking great for flights in the northeast and mid-atlantic by the way. it's bringing in heavy rain showers along with strong gusty winds, could be as much as 20, 30 miles per hour this afternoon. flooding could be expected here as two to four inches is expected and in addition to that we're expecting some coastal flooding and that happens when we get these strong winds coming in off the coast, combined with high tide, we've got that full moon tonight so be aware that some of that water is going to be moving up on to the shoreway. also a few of those storms could be severe this afternoon, so say from philadelphia down into parts of north carolina, the nation's midsection looking great today, though, over the flood areas of the mississippi valley. very dry weather. we've had a nice dry stretch and that's going to continue and out west take a look at that, that's not a typo on my map today. mountain snow. we could see as much as two feet in the sierra in the next 24 hours. real potent system out there. temperature wise, we're coolish in the west as well as into the east. staying very warm across parts of the south. 81 today in dallas. christine and kiran, back to you. >> thank you, jacqui. still ahead we'll be talking more about the weather. the mississippi river closed to boat traffic in some areas because of the swelling river. also louisiana getting flooded bracing for what's to come there. we'll have the latest on the flooding. >> apple addicts listen up, will there be an iphone 5. everything you wanted it to know about the next generation of iphone we'll have it right after the break. ♪ let's see you fly now! 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received a tip-off and an ied on a private bus carrying 30 people into dublin. it was defused. as we speak there is another bomb alert this time north of the irish border in bell fast. it's thought that irish republican dissidents will try to disrupt the queen's visit, something like $42 million being spent on security over the next few days in the run up to president obama's visit here next monday. money well spent says the irish government because they want to boost ireland's profile amid the backdrop of a serious economic decline in recent years. on the queen's agenda when she arrives here she will go visit the irish president, go to the garden of remembrance and lay a wreath for those who died in the 1916 easter rising. this is very much a healing visit seen on the part of the british and irish authorities. she will go later this week to croke park, the site of a massacre of 14 people at an irish gaelic football game at the height of the war of independence when ireland was fighting for its independence when british army personnel went into a game as it was taking place in the stadium, killing 14 people in retall rags for the killing of 14 british intelligence officers. she will attend a state banquet tomorrow night here at dublin castle and people will be watching her every word she has to say. >> we'll check in with you throughout the day, thanks so much. the coast guard closing a 15-mile stretch of the mississippi river, no word on when they're going to reopen it. it's an area near natchez, mississippi, off limits to all traffic and water levels they say are too high and dangerous right now to reopen it. >> in louisiana the army corps of engineers has opened 11 gates in the morganza spillway. about 2500 people, 2,000 structures are in the path of these floodwaters. louisiana governor bobby jindal mobilizing 1100 national guard members to get ahead of the worst of the flooding an at the angola state prison the country's largest maximum security facility, 3500 inmates are being evacuated, many helping with sandbagging efforts to keep the water out if they can. that's the hope. it's unclear whether they will be able to keep it back. >> rob marciano is in melville, louisiana, where evacuation orders came down on sunday. hey, rob. >> good morning, guys. they are concerned that this is going to rival the flood of 1973, at least in this town where a number of homes and parts of businesses were flooded out. like many towns in this area, there's protective levee, you either live inside that protective levee or you don't. the folks who live inside it are not protected going to have problems for sure. the spillway as you mentioned opened up to 11 gates. they may open more of that. it's been a slow progress of seeing this water make its way down through the atchafalaya basin. as a matter of fact, but as you go north towards the red river, we have flooding up there as well. simms fort yesterday, a number of homes flooded in that area. now, with the water heading down to the south, we've got revised river crest dates and this is turning in to be a longer event than we want or anticipated. down in butte larose the river not expected to crest there until the 24th. a full week from now. we've been reporting for the past several days, most residents there have at least partially evacuated, maybe coming back to check on their homes every once in a while. most of that town has been told to evacuate. morgan city they're forecast to crest on the 25th. so eight days from now. and then our friends up to the north in vicksburg and natchez, they've got crests coming in the coming days as well. if there's one little sliver of optimism or hope i should say, and it may be unwarranted, guys, we've had a fairly dry spring here, about nine inches below normal as far as the amount of rain we should have had since january 1st and there may be a little bit of absorption from this -- in this flood way and that's the hope as this water slowly makes its way downstream. but with these rivers, the water not expected to crest for a full week now in some of these spots it's going to be another excruciately long wait for that to happen and then with the water making that sort of pressure across the levee system for that long of time the question is can those levees hold and that's been the question for the past couple weeks. so far with a lot of maintenance, it's been successful. guys? >> all right. thanks so much, rob. up next, coming up soon on "american morning," get ready to dig a little deeper if you're looking to buy a new car. we'll tell you how much prices are rising and why and what you can do about it. >> where do you put that car? well there's an iphone app to help you find a parking space. what would you do without an app. drive around in circles in san francisco for hours. all right. aren't you not supposed to have one in the car while driving anyway. >> be careful with the iphone apps to find a parking space. 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