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Education of alien minors. it failed to pass the last congress. the act was reintroduced by senator dick durbin, and for two in arizona, it may be their only hope. we sat with the boys and discovered they too still dream the american dream. >> reporter: somewhere in phoenix is a tiny trailer park. people who know this place total us, it's where the dreamers live. dreamers are kids who want to go on to college, or serve in the u.s. military, but can't. because they're undo you wanted. undocumented. we came here to meet two students. we can't identify them, because they're in the country illegal...

The dream lives on for many children. >> reporter: somewhere in phoenix is a tiny trailer park. people who know this place told us, it's where the dreamers live. dreamers are kids who want to go on to college or serve in the u.s. military, but can't. because they're undocumented. we came here to meet two students. we can't identify them, because they're in the country illegally. alex is 17. he says he came to the from mexico about four years ago on his own to chase a dream. >> i had always dreamed of being a doctor. when i came here and i started to study, i decided to become a neurosurgeon. >...

>> 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 ...

And having that example. and also not only in addition to that example, i think consistently being told that whatever it is you want to do, you've got to get after it. you -- you got to get after it. there's no substitute for hard work, hard work always pays. those tape -- those type of mantras over time. >> did you ever imagine even in your most outrageous dreaming, did you ever imagine you'd reach the stage where you're a $10 million-a-movie star? >> no, i didn't. i wanted to entertain. when i was 8 years old, i thought i was a combination of these guys. i thought i was a combination of chuc...