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>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is exp...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. it's a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. it's made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has an 11 by 13 cell himself, but he ...

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John vilsack didn't look at the whole videotape. didn't ask when ms. sherrod worked for the usda and not 24 years ago and she didn't. we could have waited all day. we could have had media circus, said the deputy chief of staff at the white house. we took decisive action. a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere. jim mecina didn't look at the whole videotape. didn't first ask if the decisive action might have been like sending drafuss to devil's island. a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere -- this atmosphere. this atmosphere exists because the people around him have le...

Inviting media circus in this atmosphere. to paraphrase james lot, mr. mecina, mr. emmanuel, everyone is remodelling this president to something generic and safe and electable in 2012 on the slimmest of margins to be media and circus free and better suited to this atmosphere as possible. let obama be obama? and that advice must be heeded by one man above all others can you give us some -- specifically some things he said that would help us mr. gibbs was asked at this afternoon's press briefing. again, mr. gibbs replied. he talked about the fact that -- that a disservice had been done here. and...