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expected to be open in maybe just the next few hours, leaving residents in low-lying areas preparing for the worst. we have a live report coming your way in just a second. also, can i tell you about some surprising discoveries at osama bin laden's compound and the intensifying diplomatic fallout. then a little later, so happy to share with you a candid conversation with baseball legend hank aaron. the home run king. some say still the home run king talking about what it was like breaking babe ruth's record. why it wasn't necessarily the career highlight that it should have been. ...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don't know if it's going to hold even with this. they're being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you can't take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he'll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this...

that he can win the white house. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." the taliban warn that this will not be the only death. they are claiming back to back suicide bombings at a pakistani training facility in northwest pakistan. at least 80 people were killed, most of them pakistani army recruits. reza is joining us live from islamabad with pretty horrendous crime. what are they saying where you are, reza? >> reporter: well, wolf, this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people and indeed it did just that. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of ar...

>> shepard: relocating to barn tonight, satartia, mississippi, wow. steve, thank you. as i mentioned a high stakes drama is unfolding now in louisiana where the u.s. army corps of engineers is tasked with deciding whether to flood out thousands of homes and farmland on the bayou. in an effort to save the state capital. and with every tick of the clock, the situation draws more dire. north of baton rouge there is that massive flood gate known as the morganza spillway. it's really a pressure valve for the giant mississippi river. if the engineers open it, the watters that would have flooded bato...

Mainly, they must decide whether to flood out an area with 2,000 homes and buildings to prevent an even larger disaster in the state capital. and at lsu. here's the situation. there is a massive flood gate just north of baton rouge called the morganza spillway. a giant pressure valve. it hasn't been opened since 1973. frankly, no one is really sure what will happen if they do open it theoretically the spillway would divert floodwaters from the mississippi river into a bayou basin. and on into the gulf of mexico from there that should prevent the brunt of the storm from spilling into browj and ...