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Escaping. but new york prosecutors say in fact he was. >> given the strength of the case as it now stands and the potential for additional evidence to be generated, the defendant has additional motivation to flee. >> reporter: prosecutors say a maid had entered his suite at the sofitel hotel to clean, then was assaulted by strauss-kahn. he was naked, they said, and forced her to perform a sex act in the bathroom. >> french national. >> reporter: a law enforcement source said the maid identified him in a line-up. prosecutors later said he had engaged in what they called similar conduct on at le...

Forced her to perform a sex act in the bathroom. >> french national. >> reporter: a law enforcement source said the maid identified him in a line-up. prosecutors later said he had engaged in what they called similar conduct on at least one other occasion. in court strauss-kahn's attorney told a judge that "this is a very, very defensible case" and argued for bail. >> there are significant issues that we have already found simply with preliminary investigation that in our judgment makes it quite likely that he might ultimately be exonerated. >> reporter: nonetheless, the judge refused bail, ord...

>> restrained a hotel employee inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her. >> reporter: detectives say they traced dsk because he had left a cell phone in his $3,000-a-night hotel room here in new york city's times square. police recovered the phone and said they convinced a hotel employee to lie when strauss-kahn called to ask about it. the french imf chief said he was at the airport, about to board a plane to paris. strauss-kahn was detained by new york city police as the plane was about to take off. his attorneys say he was not escaping. but new york pr...

What did you see? how bad was it? >> reporter: well, you know, keep in mind this is the next city that's in line for this historic amount of floodwater. both the mississippi river, in this case the yazoo river as well, the tributary. so it's all focusing on vicksburg. vicksburg is next under the gun. already, though, heavy flooding. we went on that boat trip. these are suburbs that are found to the north of vicksburg, about five different subdivisions. they're all underwater. 1,700 people have been forced to flee the rising water in the vicksburg area. but hundreds of homes have already fallen...

Inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her. >> reporter: detectives say they traced dsk because he had left a cell phone in his $3,000-a-night hotel room here in new york city's times square. police recovered the phone and said they convinced a hotel employee to lie when strauss-kahn called to ask about it. the french imf chief said he was at the airport, about to board a plane to paris. strauss-kahn was detained by new york city police as the plane was about to take off. his attorneys say he was not escaping. but new york prosecutors say in fact he was. >...