in harwood. like house after house here, the rising red river has turned it into an island. this is what it looks like from above. part of north dakota is a giant lake. on the ground, it's sleepless nights. justin and his dad take turns looking for leaks in their plywood mote. you keep a checklist. >> a checklist, that everything's going okay. >> reporter: the red river is lapping at their door. how high is the water here? >> it's about 4 1/2 feet or so. >> reporter: and the only thing between you and it is -- >> this wood there. >> reporter: people here are growing tired. this is the third year of historic flooding in a row. barbara pinto, abc news, harwood, north dakota. >>> in mapleton, iowa, today they are cleaning up and also giving thanks. of the ten tornadoes that hit iowa over the weekend, the worst of them flattened mapleton. more than half of all of the buildings in the town were damaged or destroyed. a lot of people feeling lucky despite the devastation to the structures. >> a rough st

she's in harwood, north dakota tonight. barbara. >> reporter: i'm on the second family of this home. here in harwood. like house after house here, the rising red river has turned it into an island. this is what it looks like from above. part of north dakota is a giant lake. on the ground, it's sleepless nights. justin lenox and his dad take turns looking for leaks in their plywood moat. >> you keep a check list? >> yeah, a check list making sure there's no major leaks. >> reporter: the red river is literally lapping at their door. how high is the water here? >> it's about 4 1/2 feet or so. >> reporter: and the only thing between you and it is -- >> the wood here. >> reporter: now, people here are tired. this is the third year of historic flooding in a row, george. >> okay, barbara, and you've been there every year. >>> we're going to turn overseas to japan where there was a terrifying reminder of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck exactly one month ago. a six-minute aftershock struck the country not long aft

simon harwood told them if it's the case i have in any way caused his death, then i am very sorry. tomlinson's family said rather than wanting to help them, the officer only wanted to help himself. he accused him of exaggerating and telling untruths. simon will be back in the witness box tomorrow. june kelly, bbc news, central london. >>> you're watching bbc news. good to have you with us. a reminder of the headline this is hour, talks continue in ivory coast to try to secure the surrender of besieged president laurent gbagbo. the libyan rebel leader accused nato of failing to stop attacks of qaddafi forces in misrata. the operator of the damaged fukushima nuclear plant in japan said it managed to stop the leak of highly radioactive water into the sea. the leak was caused by a crack in the wall of the concrete pit. engineers from the tokyo electric power company have been struggling to stop the flow for several days. a correspondent in tokyo explains how they managed to stop the leak. >> well, they injected what they call liquid glass, that's sodium silicate and is used in car main

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finally melts and moscow some of the capitals and invaders declare the selig's season open on the city harwood's. and there are as you've never seen it before check out the spectacular high resolution images captured trialed russian satellite and much more for you at our team. preparations are in full swing for the upcoming science based on the staff and crew make all the necessary checks for us not takeoff we're not mars the legendary flight of russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin the first man in space fifty years ago artie's to star sylvia has more. we were a few days before the actual launch of the so you see i'm a twenty one to be a good witness in the assembly of the rocket the three main modules that make up the spacecraft now according to be a staff here it takes about ten days or more to put together the spacecraft but today what we've seen it took about seven hours just to have put one piece of the structure to the top most part p. very first module that contains the a cabin where the crew will be staying what they put today was a crew escape system and this is very important because should

barbara pinto is in harwood, north dakota. >> reporter: i'm on the second floor of this family's home, like house after house here, the rising red river has turned it into an island. this is what it looks like from above. part of north dakota is a giant lake. on the ground it's sleepless nights, justin and his dad take turns looking for leaks in the plywood moat. you keep a checklist? >> to make sure are no major leaks. >> reporter: the red river is lapping at their door. how high is the water here? >> it's about four and a half feet or so. >> reporter: the only thing between you and it? >> the wood there. >> reporter: people are growing tired, the third year of historic flooding in a row. barbara pinto abc news, harwood, north dakota. >>> and weather news doesn't stop there, a line of severe storms whipped up four tornados in johnson county, texas on monday. winds up to 110 miles an hour whipped through that rural area turning homes and barns into nothing more than twisted wreckage. at one point more than 90,000 customers had lost power. and also cleaning up in central wisconsin from

let's go to john harwood. tell me how this got this done. when you look at the last several hours of this debate, was it more about face saving to come up with a compromise? >> it was. and to some degree, the democrats' decision to target planned parenthood and that potential cut in women's health service funding helped john boehner because it allowed him to make the case to his republican members. we've got to get this focus back on spending. which, in turn, gave him the leverage to go back to the administration and say, hey. give me a little more cuts and i can get the votes and that's exactly what he did. >> were either side paying attention to the american public who was shaking their heads all yesterday saying fellows, ladies, how do we get here? why can't you come up with a deal? >> they all were paying attention to the american people, and that's why the deal got done in the end. this was a very difficult ideological fight, but the one thing that both sides understood from the beginning, and it's why most people sort of very close to

bill harwood at the kennedy space center with us. good to talk with you. >> thank you. >> like we said, big launch here in the states tomorrow. and of course, when we come back here on "the early show" we'll go back to london. it is a big day tomorrow there, as well. more on the preparations for the royal wedding when we come back. this is "the early show" here on cbs. [ female announcer ] bedtime is not for sleeping. the monster was furious. roar!!! it's for laughing... [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] ...pretending... and the mouse went, "wha-wha-wha, why?" [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] ...seeing things differently... and then the boy bit the dragon! [ female announcer ] ...and for being with your favorite storyteller... [ grandpa ] i love you when you're quiet... [ female announcer ] ...even after he goes home to nevada. [ grandpa ] and i love you when you're loud! [ female announcer ] hallmark recordable storybooks. ♪ chances are your soil is like this: compacted, drained of nutrients. it'll hold your plants but it'll also ho

. >> bill harwood for cbs. what did the president say about -- i don't know, giving you simpson thy for scrubbing the launch, and did he meet with ms. giffords? >> as far as the scrup, i didn't talk to him in detail. it was only in greeting and his stops as we scorlted him around. he understands, and we are going to do the right thing. he had a great talk with the crew. he had a great time talking with them, and he met with gabberty over in the l.c.c. >> back over here. any questions on this side? right here? >> just curious, now looking in hind sight, would the wind have delayed this anyway since it got pretty gusty around launch time? >> they gave me the observation times. here at kennedy, the winds were within limits. it wasn't a cross wind concern as much as a tail wind, so that would have been a go. on the tal site, it turned out it raped all day long atist riss, so it would not have good. we had go weather both r.t.s. and tal, which is a little salt in the wound. [laughter] >> let's come back over here on