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yesterday. what exactly is ahead for the former head of imf. also, today, this, folks, is our last day. today is doomsday. you might have heard about did. so far so good, but we're told the apocalypse should be starting today. the radio networks have spent millions of dollars to warn you that the end is here. we're here at the beginning of this cnn saturday morning. it might be our last. let's all try our best to make it a good one. it's saturday, may 21st. up front, let's start with a breaking story we're getting out of kabul, afghanistan. at least one or more suicide bombers have attacked a hospital there. at least six people have been killed, another 26 are hurt. the taliban is claiming responsibility along with a far higher death toll than afghanistan authorities are confirming. we will take you back live to kabul in just a few moments with the latest on this still developing story. this morning's bomb attack in kabul coincides with a warning from david petraeus. in it he says army rebels should expect more attacks this summer, attacks that put civilians at greater risk, also recent payback of the killing of osama bin laden. petraeus commands authority of the force. last month president obama nominated him to be the next director of the cia. also another breaking story to share with you this morning. this one is a massive manhunt that's under way around oklahoma city. this is going on right now. police looking for two suspects in the shooting of an off-duty sheriff's deputy. that deputy is a 25-year veteran of the force. he is now listed in critical condition. police say he was getting extra work as a security guard and that he was carrying a bank deposit around midnight when he was attacked. all of this apparently was caught on security cameras. more on this still developing story throughout the morning. meanwhile, dominique strauss-kahn now out of jail this morning and he's actually in a manhattan apartment right now. he's in a home right now that's temporary. he's expecting to move to a new place a few days. the accommodations much better than the cell, of course, he's been in in rikers island at the jail complex there. he's got some company in his apartment. his wife ann st. clair is with him there. she put up the bail to get him out. it cost a million in cash, also 5 million in insurance bonds. part of the condition is he's got to stay put. he can leave for medical reasons, but when he gets to his new digs, he can leave, but he'll have to give authorities at least six hours notice before he tries to leave. strauss-kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last week. he has pleaded not guilty. as for his position with the head of the imf, he did resign. they're expecting to have a new chief next month. strauss-kahn got a $250,000 separation pension and will withdraw a modest pension. sex, lies and arrogance comes your way 10:00 eastern time right here on cnn. also, the name maybe you've never heard of: umberto, and now he is under arrest. he is the one you're seeing in the red shirt on the right. he was captured in rinoso, mexico, just across the border from texas. he is one of the suspects in the gulf cartel. they are responsible for bringing a major amount of drugs into the u.s. the state department had a $5 million reward out for information leading to his arrest. mexican police picked him up at his own birthday party. well, famed pro wrestler macho man randy savage has died. his jeep slammed into a tree in seminole, florida. his wife was in the vehicle. she was injured but has since been released from the hospital. h it was, in fact, a heart attack. they are conducting an autopsy. he was 58 years old. well, who do you believe today? if you believe some, today is it, folks. this is your last, this is my last cnn saturday morning. today we're told it's the beginning of the end of days, the a ppocalypseapocalypse, doo rap tou raptu rapture. what are you going to do? >> i say just chill. nothing is going to happen. >> i have to go to work. i'm going to enjoy my weekend. >> it is going to happen, jesus is going to come back, but not tomorrow. he could come back tomorrow, he could come back any day, but the bible doesn't predict an exact date, and when someone does predict an exact date, they're usually wrong because the bible warns us not to pick an exact date, just to be ready. >> the family worldwide network, they're the ones behind this, and they have spent a lot of time, energy and resources, and yes, money, trying to get their message out that the world ends today. at least the first part of the apocalypse is supposed to happen. the leader of the family, harry campin, says the time is in the bible. he has a massive math equation that he came up with to come up with today. you can see some of them here spreading the message. they spent a lot of money in billboards across the country as well. the world was supposed to start to end in new zealand at 6:00 p.m. their time. that time has come and gone. new zealand, as far as we can tell, is still there. we wanted to take a moment and show you the group's web site, family radio worldwide. it's actually down today, but we can show you what it looked like earlier this morning. there was a countdown they had on there. the countdown is down to zero. judgment day is here, no days left, this is it. and kind of a guarantee this is supposed to be it. they have a program guide on there. i'm not sure they have a program guide on there anymore. the world is ending so we don't know exactly what's happening. maybe it's under construction right now. howard camping says we're near the end. he's not getting a lot of support from others. you can hear what ta baptist church in the south says about the end of the world prediction. this has been kind of a fun thing for some of you this morning. want to know what you thought. not whether it was coming, but what you would do if it was coming. if you knew this was really your last day, what would you do with your last days on earth? check out some of the responses on cnn.com/tj. some of the fun responses are on twitter. you can find me there at t.j. holmes, and tjholmes/cnn. weather now, some nasty stuff that is hitting the lower mississippi river valley right now. that could be a problem for all those levee-protected areas. residents watching the river and the rain gauges. the river has crested, crested earlier than anticipated in some places, but continues to flood southwestern louisiana. some of the flooding is intentional, you remember. the army corps of engineers last week began opening several gates in the morganza spillway in louisiana, taking pressure off baton rouge and new orleans, but again, that water has to go somewhere, and it was diverted to some other communities. anywhere from three to five inches of rain, meanwhile, could hit the mississippi river valley today. some started the crest earlier than anticipated in some of regions. jean is in natchez, mississippi. it was raining earlier on you, jean. it looks like that stopped for now. that's something. >> for the time being it has, t.j. this river higher than it's ever been in recorded history, 61.8 feet. for a while they were worried it could get even higher. you see on the pavement they put down a marker for 65 feet. it's far short of that, thank goodness, but they made preparations for it here in this under the hill part of natchez, they built some temporary levees here. you can see those. i was told there were more of them and they were even higher, but they were so heavy the road here started to sink, so they disassembled them to some degree. you'll see behind there there is a riverboat casino. that has been shut for a while as they cope with the very high water here. most of natchez up on a bluff protected from these floodwaters, just a historic area here, a few businesses and a few homes impacted by high waters. that's not the case elsewhere in the mississippi. the u.s. coast guard took our cameraman on an overflight yesterday. he got a chance to see from the air what the situation looks like, and what he saw was a lot of submerged land, a lot of that muddy brown mississippi water overspilling its banks. the real issue here today, auz mentioned, t.j., is the weather forecast. we had torrential rains earlier. we watched the water just pour onto this river here, and it's expected there will be more of that today up and down the mississippi river basin. clearly very bad news when they're monitoring this water so very carefully. back to you, t.j. >> jean is out there. we appreciate having you out there with us. we'll check in with jean a little later. now we're checking in with kerry mcguinne mcguinness. we're having rain in several areas. >> this area of low pressure is not going to move a whole lot over the next couple of days. it's stuck way up here across the dakotas, but there is a frontal system to the south. the leading edge of this, warm air ahead of it, we've got cool air behind it and this is going to be the trigger mechanism for additional rainfall across the central and lower mississippi river valley. now, what can we expect as far as the river floods are concerned? here's what's going to happen as we look through time. these are the river stages above flood stage, how many feet above flood stage we are. natchez and baton rouge, we're not really looking at anything right now in new orleans, but we have seen record flooding. natchez, the record was 58. we're over 61, t.j., right now. it looks like that may go up a little tic by about noontime. >> it's always good to have with us on the weekends. thank you, karen. i want to get back to a developing story in oklahoma. we've told you about a massive manhunt, looking for two people in connection with a shooting of an off-duty sheriff's deputy. he was picking up extra work as a security guard when he was attacked. i want to join now on the line oklahoma city sheriff john wetzel. i know it's a busy time for you guys, but can you tell us, first of all, an update about the condition of your deputy? >> the deputy is still listed in critical condition but also stable at this point. he is about an hour away from actually going into surgery so they can repair around his eye socket and also in the area of the jaw. he still has a bullet lodged in his skull, but he is stable, and we're hoping the very best as he goes into surgery. >> and sheriff wetzel, i think the reporting is that apparently this was outside? he was doing some off-duty work, but there was security cameras or surveillance cameras around. did you capture, you were able to capture this whole incidenci on video? >> some of the event itself has been captured on video, and we believe we have at least enough to make a good identification of one of the suspects, or at least one of the suspects. but we have men and women on the ground as we speak who are trying to make sure that we apprehend both of the suspects who were involved in this brutal shooting. it was a cowardly act. they never gave the major any opportunity. >> i guess there were some more details there. i guess you also said you could i.d. one of those suspects. will you be releasing maybe a still shot and try to get help, or do you have any ideas right now who these two suspects are? >> all i can tell you is that we're working with the oklahoma city police department, we're working with our intelligence information also to try to get a good identification and make the arrest of these two individuals. at this point in time, we're not releasing any further information than that. >> and sir, you said they never gave him a chance. what do you mean by that? >> it would appear that they approached him from the rear, and when he apparently turned around -- he heard them, when he apparently turned around, he was immediately shot before he even had an opportunity to go for his weapon. >> and robbery the motive here. i understand he was making some kind of delivery? >> this would have been -- like i said, we're still in the beginning stages of the investigation, but this would be about the time that he would normally make a run from -- or walk from the restaurant that he was working for to the bank, which was about a half a block away. >> and last thing here, sir, what can you tell us about your deputy? i understand he's a 25-year vet. i assume everybody on your force knows him and knows him well. >> he's a very integral part of the agency. he's a major in charge of our administrative services bureau. very highly regarded and well known within the agency and within law enforcement within the county. so it's -- our family is pulling together with his family as we pray for him and as we're with him. >> all right. sheriff wetzel, i appreciate you taking the time out here. if there's any information you'd like us to get out, by all means, let us know anything we can help out with. but sir, we appreciate your time and what's been a tough night for you all as that manhunt goes on. >> obviously, if anybody has any information, we would love to know it. >> sure thing, sheriff. we'll make sure we keep this on top of the minds of our viewers and put it out where we need to. but again, to our viewers, on the manhunt for two people who, according to the sheriff, didn't even give their deputy a chance, just walking up and shooting him. he didn't even get a chance to pull his weapon. he is right now in critical condition but stable. that's something. he's going into surgery in the next hour to try to repair some of the damage. they still have a bullet lodged in his brain right now. we'll continue that story through the morning. also, another story, kabul, we'll head there. at least one suicide bomber got inside a hospital there. stay with us. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. 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>> one more thing, can you give us an understanding of who might have been in there? and what i mean by that specifically, would americans have been in this place? >> at this point we're told that they don't believe any americans were in that hospital. if americans would have been in there, we're told it might have been just for a training capacity. but as far as the patients, the doctors in there, we're told we should expect that they were afghans. these would be people either with the military, people who were wounded because of operations here, security forces that might have been wounded because of the war on terror here, but pre no, ma'dominantly. we're not hearing from officials here that americans were in the hospital. still, quite a bit of concern about the afghan security officials, about the fact that this was a very secured target, something that was being protected, and if the taliban could get in there and carry this out, where else could they go in this country and carry out this type of attack? >> muhammad, appreciate you as always. thank you so much. let's turn to neighboring pakistan where oil transports this morning killed at least 16 people. suspected remote control bombs blew up a trigger bordering afghanistan. officials said a separate attack targeteding another fuel convoy sent tankers on fire. the fuel was destined for militants there. no claims of responsibility for either attack. listen to this. she has been waiting more than 30 years, waited for a child support check from her ex-husband. and she got nothing. >> oh, my god! thank you so much! you have no idea! >> well, the wait is over. yes, we'll explain just how much that check was worth. ♪ ♪ membership rewards points from american express. they're a social currency with endless possibilities. 22 minutes past the hour now. people often say better late than never. i'm not a big believer in it, but hey, maybe in this case it worked out. that's what happened to a 59-year-old woman in phoenix. listen to this. >> i'm down today so that we could present you a check in the amount of $93,639 as a repayment for child support. >> now, you can understand why she's crying here in a second. because kathy smith there, it took her more than 30 years, kathy smith peterson, to get that check. she has been waiting since 1976. now, she has been scrapping for years and years so her kids could have the little things like prom dresses, school trips. well, arizona's department of economic security found out her ex-husband had actually stashed about $200,000 in an out-of-state account. money, much of it, was due to her. the money comes at a very good time for this woman. she has actually been out of work for some 18 months. take a look now at some other stories making news across the country. lisa lampanelli has an outspoken position on gay rights. lampanelli said for every church member that would show up to picket, she would donate $1,000 to gay rights. they showed up. this is how much she will be donating because she's tweeting. can't read all of it to you, but part of it says, thanks to these blanks, $34,000 will be donated. so 34 protestors apparently showed up. >> oh, god, love it. oh, honey. honey. >> let me explain what's happening here. she didn't just find any cat. this was a woman whose home was pretty much tore through by a tornado in tuscaloosa, alabama a few weeks ago. two cats survived. one hadn't been seen since the storm, but that changed thursday. the lost cat came out of nowhere and, of course, was welcomed to what was left of the home. today at the air force academy of colorado, high-tech warriors in a pretty low-tech battle of dodgeball. 4,000 of these ka decadets out in a dodgeball fight. they came up with the idea as a way to blow off some steam. and they did need some 1,000 dodgeballs to have a game. a lot of

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