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the killing of osama bin laden, new details. we have correspondents covering all angles. they'll join us at the top of the hour. but first politics. ron paul wants president obama's job. he announced his intentions earlier today and plans a news conference at the top of the hour. the republican congressman joins newt gingrich in the gop race for the white house. a long time political observer, broadcaster and businessman has a new book, fail up, lessons from building successes from failure. tavis, welcome. >> good to be on. >> i want to talk about your book in a little bit, but fir...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the water's got to go somewhere, and that somewhere is farmland and swamps. bayous and hamlets to the west and south. ...

video we are talking about. this is an example of the nighttime helmet cam video and gives you a idea of the quality of the stuff that the military is combing over. this is technology used by the s.e.a.l.s on bin laden's compound. you can see here in the helmet cam video that when it is shot in dark conditions, it is grainy and not a lot of detail it to, but they are going over it bit by bit to piece together all of the things that went on inside of that compound and piece it together. we are going to be getting more on this in a moment from the pentagon correspondent chris lawrence ...