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The president turns to him and said, at what point did you take the photo? people are guessing it's during the helicopter going down, but it's not clear. that's how small the room is, using a fish eye lens. we interview all of those people about that day, that night, the tension, the chances it could have gone bad, what happened when they lost one of the helicopters. it's an extraordinary kind of public record of this raid. we learned things routinely in our interviews that i was sitting there picking off, well, that hasn't been made public. that hasn't been made public. so we now have it. >> ...

>> 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...

More now on the safety concerns among navy s.e.a.l.s who took out osama bin laden. defense secretary robert gates says the department is looking for ways to pump up security for the s.e.a.l.s. want to bring in our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. chris, give us a sense here. secretary gates is worried that too much information on the bin laden raid has now been made public. why were there so many operational details that were released in the first place? >> more than likely, suzanne, because they got osama bin laden and lot of officials were proud of that fact and wanted to talk about it...

suicide bombers, one on a motorcycle, one on foot, targettarget ed cadets in northwestern pakistan. that happening today. the two explosions killed 80 people. the academy is near the border with afghanistan. now, sources say that bin laden's widows, they're not giving up a lot of information. the three women are described as hostile to their american questioners. the interview took place with pakistani intelligence officers in the room. and a source says only the oldest wife spoke. defense secretary robert gates says he is going to pump up security around the navy s.e.a.l. team tha...

He says what he saw in that picture just doesn't fit. take a closer look. look here and you can see this sort of round disk, sort of looks like a hub cap covering the tail rotor. he said that could hide the gears that turn the rotor. something that radar would easily pick up. he said he doesn't know of any helicopter in the u.s. military that has something like that. also, the pieces of the tail row rotor looks like it has five or six blades, and the blades may be shorter. a blackhawk normally has four blades and he says that shorter blades would reduce the whoop, whoop, whoop sound that you h...