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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110518-00:33:00

>> i don't want him to. i mean, i want to be with him. you know? whatever happens. i want to be with him. >> reporter: this is what's heading their way. 25 miles away, water rushing through the morganza spillway at 102,000 cubic feet per second. at that rate, it would take less than two hours to cover the entire island of manhattan in a foot of water. the sheriff is patrolling the neighborhood by boat. what are you telling the people who tell you, forget it, i'm not leaving. >> you're on your own. >> reporter: for now, all anyone can do is work and wait. >> scared of the unknown, i guess, you know? you just don't know what to expect. you don't know what you're going to have when it's over. >> when god gives you lemons, you make lemonade, okay? >> reporter: and when he gives you ten feet of water? >> you sandbag. >> reporter: and diane, these are those sandbags. we've been seeing a lot of people doing this kind of a creative way to try to keep the

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NBC Nightly News-20110518-00:48:00

>> it's the same thing all of us do when we take out a loan for any major purchase or investment. >> college debt was something you thought about? >> yes. absolutely. i made the choice to avoid loans. >> reporter: these students are taking stock of college expenses now so they can enjoy graduation later. rehema ellis, nbc news, los angeles. up next here tonight, somebody was watching our broadcast very closely. they saw an idea here that's going to be making a difference for a lot of other folks.

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110518-00:51:00

ward store and setting up a demonstration and selling barbecues, literally, one at a time. >> reporter: 60 years later, the business now has more than 1,200 employees. >> there was a time when everybody was leaving the united states in our industry and we worked hard to buck that trend. we deliberately said, we're taking stakes here. >> reporter: 98% of their workforce in the u.s. not laying off a single employee during the recession. in fact, during that time, they grew 30%. the secret? remembering that americans, with their middle class backyards, are an inspiration to the growing middle class everywhere overseas. >> so many people travel to the united states from all around the world. and they really do embrace the american culture. they bring that back home. and part of the american scene is certainly grilling. >> reporter: what's your biggest overseas purchaser? >> it would be the danes. >> reporter: the danes?

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NBC Nightly News-20110518-00:46:00

topic here that's growing more urgent by the day. massive student loan debt that can ruin the lives of young college graduates just trying to get started. a student loan is one of the few types of debt you can't get rid of by declaring bankruptcy. you're stuck with it for life. now soaring tuition, huge loan burdens have many in our education nation wondering if college is even worth the try. the story from our chief education correspondent, rehema ellis. ♪ >> reporter: college commencement. a time of great expectations. and for many students great debt. federal student loans now add up to $800 billion, exceeding credit card debt. >> it's not cheap. >> reporter: daniel park and six other seniors at burbank high school in california are thinking about managing future expenses now. >> raise your hand if you'll be taking out a loan to pay for the cost of college. >> reporter: they all got accepted to colleges costing on average $50,000 a year.

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110518-00:57:00

race to the opening of a brand new school, built by petra's happy hearts fund. her first school in haiti. and soon, the first signs, a child riding a bicycle in her school uniform. and there they were. the patient students waiting for petra in their little yellow shirts. inside the school, they all had a story. 5-year-old stayshama, who told us who she lost. >> she just said her mom died. >> reporter: her mom died. and right beside her, the boy with the giant eyes who told us he lost his papa. they start to point. they take me outside. this here? over here? taking me to the sweltering tent. it's 96 degrees. and this is where school was until now. but petra knows her school is just the beginning here of this massive effort to rebuild the schools of haiti. this is our third visit back now and still, a staggering number. 50% of all the children school-aged in this country,

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20110518-00:46:00

chemicals, but not this. of the 101 products tested, five contained the chemical penta which was banned by eight states as a neurotoxin and phased out by industry. nine had small amounts of the chemical t.c.e.p. which california has labeled a human carcinogen. and 36 had chlorinated tris, a chemical that consumer product safety commission calls a probable carcinogen. >> i became concerned when we were finding certainly chemicals that were expected to be carcinogens or known carcinogens. >> reporter: the study does not identify brand names but cbs news has learned chlorinated tris was found in three evenflow car seats and one snugli baby carrier. what's causing some of the concern is that flame retardant chemicals are known to migrate from foam into the air. that means that a baby being changed on a foam pad will be exposed twice-- first through the skin and then by simply breathing.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110518:18:26:00

wants to get like, hey, guess what, your child is being interviewed by the secret schlts turns out this child was removed from his classroom and questioned by the secret service. it was triggered by his posting on a facebook about president obama. here's vito's account. i was saying about how oh sanaa is dead and for obama be careful because there might be suicide bombers. turns out there's more to it than that. a spokesman with the u.s. attorney's office in seattle, washington, told cnn that vito's post included expletives, including suicide bomb, osama, suck it. she also said that throughout the interview, school officials were present. there you have it. that is the latest on that story. meanwhile 26 minutes past the hour. time to update our other top

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20110518-00:58:00

museum, the eploratorium, where he's giving guided tours. follow the ping poll balls. >> it goes behind the cable car transamerica building, they go into chinatown under the bridge, underneath the palace of fine arts dropping down into the building. the world series trophy for the giants. shoot the tube underneath this guy's surf board and then across the golden gate bridge. >> it's a piece of art. no question. it's absolutely art and it's beautiful. >> it's the way art should be. there's no rules. >> reporter: and with no rules, scott weaver has turned the humble toothpick into a building block of wonder. >> it's pretty fantastic! it's unbelievable! i mean unbelievably beautiful. >> reporter: john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> couric: and we agree. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching, see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20110518-00:59:00

sick pay. >> a suspect tells his side of the story. assault of a dodger's fan in giant territory. there are hundreds of clues. >> this is abc 7 news at 6:00. >> good evening, san francisco cops caught on camera again. >> the public defender showed tape of plains clothes officers confiscating property that was not logged in has evidence. >> the district attorney said it is stealing. vick has the story. >> the public defender released half dozen security videos that shows police misconduct. today's video comes from a residential hotel in the mission. >> that is a crime. >> public defender minced no words when he released the security video showing a group of plain

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CBS Evening News With Katie Couric-20110518-00:56:00

niaspan. soldiers wounded on the battlefield next on cbs 5 >> couric: finally tonight, consider the toothpick, that most humble of manufactured products. a simple sliver of wood, it can hold a sandwich together, spear an olive and, of course, get that little piece of lettuce out of your teeth. that's about it.

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