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>> i would like to know how many people in his community have flood insurance? >> the question that randi is asking, how many people in your community have flood insurance and how big of a problem is that? >> it is an issue in the northern section of the city, because the kings division, and the chickesaw lake that are flood, a lot of people have parents and grandparents who are affected. >> do they have the insurance? >> some of them do, and some of them do not. the last major flood we have had in our area was in 2008, and a lot of of people who got comeped out through the national insurance ...

new york city. dominique strauss-khan was arrested saturday for allegedly chasing a housekeeper through his luxury hotel suite naked and trying to force himself on her. let's go straight to richard roth who's been following today's developments. richard, bring us up to date. >> reporter: randi, the proceedings have just concluded and basically, dominique strauss-khan, the leader of the international monetary fund, has been charged with sexual assault on a maid in a new york hotel in times square on saturday. we're just now seeing and we just heard the formal charges so it is importan...

President said today? can you go along with this plan? >> well, number one, we agree 100% that we need to do something about the dropout problem. 1.2 million kids a year that we are losing, we need to do something about it. and of the four models, the transformation model, involving management, the school board, who then must reach out to the teachers and community and say, let's talk and work together to determine what is best for the students, we support that. >> is it fair to say that the obama plan is somewhat heavy handed? this sounds like no child left behind on steroids. they are going ...

Much less likely to lead productive lives than students who graduate from high school. unfortunately, they're going to make a lot less money. they're going to rely on social services and far too often, they have children who repeat this tragic cycle. it's really important for all of us to gather around like never before and really create a grad nation. that's what we're doing at america's promise alliance with 375 partner organizations, we're creating a grad nation so we can mobilize americans to end this dropout problem. >> david, are there factions of the community here in the states, be the...

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