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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 ...

There. back in '73 the water went up two sandbags in height. the owner told me the water didn't even get in the building and that was the worst. this time around the forecast about the ten miles away is for it to crest on the 25th in nine days at 11 feet. that would beat the record crest back in '73 by half a foot. we're talking about a record crest, but in the meantime everybody here is pretty much staying put. what you see here is what you're seeing up and down this entire neighborhood. lots of sandbags. even around the local school they've blown up this inflatable giant looks like a giant b...

Looking to return to work. floods along the mississippi. the slow-moving surge of floodwaters will make its way down the river over the next two weeks. parts of memphis, emergency officials have warned residents they may need to evacuate as water levels are expected to approach a record crest of 48 feet. other stories making headlines on a friday. as americans along the mississippi cope with too much water, residents in texas are in dire need of it. the latest drought monitors there show more than a quarter of the lone star state, almost 68,000 square miles, suffering from a, quote, except...

Nuclear weapon, no diplomacy is going to stop them, sanctions are too late, the possibility of regime change won't come in time. so absent preemptive military force by someone, and it won't be the obama administration, the most likely outcome, the near certain outcome, is that iran gets nuclear weapons. that's going to be extremely damaging for american interests in the region and for peace and security there and around the world. jane: that is the view from john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n., as we await these comments from the iranian president. ambassador, thank you for your thought...

Above flood stage. but that's lower than many had once feared. now, more than a million sandbags are in place in fargo and nearby morehead, minnesota to hold back the waters. and city officials have cigars at the ready to celebrate if the river does not overflow. jacqui, let's hope they'll be smoking those cigars. it's not only that, but we've got the snow, and that's -- it's kind of all adding into it, right? >> it is, yeah. and you know, it may not over top the levees that they've built. the other thing you've got to worry about is make sure those dikes hold. so if they get any kind of break...