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student debt. one in three for the gop. john boehner sounding the alarm saying there's a one in three chance they could lose control of the house. secret wiring, listening devices. we're not talking cia but football. new orleans saints general manager under fire this morning over allegations he eavesdropped on rival coaches. still on duty. a shocking turnaround, sanford police chief bill lee tries to resign and is denied. outcry and disappointment from trayvon martin's family has a florida town this morning trying to move forward. drying up. medicare and social security in ma...

vegas. and there's crashes all the time in this sport. let's talk about what made this one so bad. >> what made it so bad is the fact that you have a field, which is bigger than the indianapolis 500, on a racetrack which is almost half as small. the oval here at the las vegas motor speedway is a mile and a half oval. and in indianapolis, it's a 2 1/2 mile oval. so you have a lot more spacing of cars. as you look at the wreck right now, you have a much fatter track so cars can go four wide, which means they are more bunched up going into turns, and dan wheldon starting at the back of ...

>> instead of 84. you may feel good for a minute if you think that, but you're not doing these kids a favor by lying to them like that. >> reporter: high scores on easy state tests made tennessee seem like an education powerhouse. the truth? tennessee was one of the lowest performing states in the country. >> today begins a new era, a new time, in public education in our country. >> reporter: in 2001, the passage of no child left behind tied student test scores to federal education dollars. president bush's no child left behind law, the states have to report their standardized test scores, but...

2,000 people in st. landry parish west of baton rouge have been told to pack up and leave. they have until 6:00 p.m. eastern time. six other parishes in the region are also expected to flood. the evacuations come after the army corps of engineers started opening flood gates on the morganza spillway. more will likely be opened in the days ahead. they're merging spillways away from new orleans and baton rouge, but that puts nearly 4,000 people in the path of that flood. we're joined from st. landry parish where people have gotten the word. they're packing up as fast as they can. ed set...

It's the time of year where students are studying for this state tests designed to see how much they should know. turns out most of those tests are not as rigorous as they should be. soledad o'brien looks at this issue in a new documentary airing this week called "don't fail me: education in america." >> were you lying to parents? >> absolutely. >> about how well they were doing? >> in one case, 8th grade math, we were telling 88% they were sufficient. >> what was the real number? >> 22%. and you just say, look, you may feel good for a minute if you think that, but you're not doing these kids ...