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we begin this hour with a travel advisory. the u.s. state department issued a worldwide travel alert for americans living or traveling abroad. it warns that followers of al qaeda figures killed on friday could stage revenge attacks. read the entire warning on the u.s. state department's website. and in a matter of hours, amanda dknox is expected to spek directly to the jurors hearing her appeal. the american exchange student will have about 15 minutes to convince them to overturn her murder conviction and set her free. she is serving 26 years for the killing of her british roommate...

ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, i'm suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris christie says that nine new jersey rivers have surged to record flood levels, but thankfully, they ...

Be curious what is on those for sure. >> well, you know, the sleaziness around this whole story, obviously s not helpful to john edwards, and the fact that his aide, mr. young, for a while claimed falsely to be a father of this child. i mean, the atmospherics are all factors that are not going to make a jury sympathetic to john edwards. >> right. >> but they still need a crime to prove, and you know, we have to reserve judgment on whether they can do that. >> all right. always a pleasure to have you on. thank you. and now back to the murder trial of casey anthony. the 25-year-old florida mom...

Network trutv joins us. tell us what we see when it comes to manslaughter charges when it comes to industrial accidents. do these have a chance of happening? >> i think there's no question it is very possible this could happen, t.j. when you talk about environmental disasters, the government has a couple of options at the disposal. one is civil enforcement, and one option is criminal enforcement. there is certain lly precedence for this. remember the valdez, which was a smaller situation, much smaller situation than this disaster. and which will charges were pressed there. and this started wit...

Quarter past the hour now. you remember that picture? we saw it for months last year. april 20th is going to now mark the one-year anniversary of the bp oil disaster in the gulf. now we're learning that the justice department may ask for manslaughter charges for the 11 men who died when that oil rig initially blew up. is that really possible, manslaughter charges? earlier i talked about our sunny hostin. she's a legal contributor for "in session" on our sister network trutv. >> i think there's no question that it is very possible that this could happen, t.j. when you talk about environmental d...