that looks like a funnel cloud. 6:45 butte county. heading towards paradise. >>> radar fans gets interesting news. >> i would see this as good news if you are a fan. all football fans starved for news with the labor process. the raders talk about readership. he gathered a number of his teammates, 33, in effect, and they are going through a four- day unsupervised work out. good news. getting organized without coaches on hand. describes things as very high spirited. >> fans out here. we brought the raider nation in here today. it's great. great turn out. guys are excited. we needed to get together. and, you know, i understand the fan's frustration with the lock out. we want to play as much as they want us to play. i said, when it is lifted we wanted to make sure we were ready to go. >> little surprising news, the lakers hired mike brown as their new coach. we will have more tonight at 10:00. that's the sporting life. >> thank you. >>> as we leave you tonight we want to show you more live pictures of the funnel clouds, the tornado in but

people in the small town of butte la rose know they could be next. abc's yunji de nies. >> reporter: 50 miles to the north of butte la rose, the floodgates have been opened at morganza spellway. the swollen mississippi is gushing through those gates with a greater force than the water going over niagara falls. this is supposed to be the surest way to spare cities like new orleans from another tragic flood. so butte la rose, which sits on a flood plain, knows that all that water is, instead, barreling down on them. likely to swallow up their homes, their businesses, their memories. how high do you think it will be right where we are? >> you and i's heads will definitely be under the water. >> reporter: this is the parish president. kind of like the mayor. and says he's staying. >> it really is heart wrenching that we are going to be sacrificed for others. it's a numbers game i guess. >> reporter: what we found most remarkable is that there's no panic in this little haven. like the river flowing through town, high water is in their blood. >> my grandfa

but butte is closest thing to tornado alley. >> after the cold front has gone through. the way the winds are organized, the blow around the butte tends to be what it takes to gate tornado to spin up underneath a thunderstorm. >> butte county supervisors kim yamaguchi was driving home through sacramento through the worst of it. >> minor damage. everybody is okay. >> leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >>> meantime this morning, more tornado watches are in effect in the nation's heartland. after powerful storms swept the region for the third time in four days. yesterday evening, dozens of people were hurt when twisters and thunderstorms hit indiana, illinois, and missouri. roofs were torn off houses and several mobile homes were flipped over. it follows tuesday's tornado that killed at least 15 people in arkansas, oklahoma, kansas, and sunday's twister that killed 125 people in joplin, missour missouri. >>> counselors are expected to be on the campus of oakland leadership high school to help the students cope with murder of 17-year-old senior. detectives are investigating the cir

we've set up a web cam, giving you a round the clock look here in butte la rose. set it up with a vantage point of the river. you'll be able to watch what it will look like when the flood waters start to rise. go to cnn.com/live to follow that as you wish. carol? >> that's unbelievable. it's the slowest moving natural disaster i think in history, ed. thanks so much. that cam is fascinating. we'll be eager to see what happens in the coming days. >>> up next, newt gingrich is carrying some baggage as he hits the white house trail. >>> and president obama says he will not release pictures of osama bin laden's body. coming up, we'll talk with a man who thinks they should be made public. in fact, his watchdog group is suing to make that happen. you're gonna want mr. fuzzyman even more now that we've discovered beneful playful life. with real, wholesome ingredients like beef, egg, and even oatmeal. extra protein for strong muscles. so you're ready for anything. you think you're getting spoiled. but it's so good for you, too. [ female announcer ] beneful playful life. he

unfortunately, to make that happen, communities like butte larose may go under. four gates are now open at the spillway, just one releases nearly 75,000 gallons per second. 4.5 million gallons a minute. a rate that would fill an olympic pool in nine seconds. downstream, st. landry parish issued a mandatory evacuation order. everyone out by this afternoon. >> we're anticipating seeing some water in this area at about 9:00 p.m. this evening. we're going to see water start coming through the woods. >> reporter: in butte larose, randy says they can issue all the evacuation orders they want. he spent months remodeling this home and he has no intention of leaving it. >> i'm not leaving. >> you're not going to leave? >> no. >> reporter: but he's keeping a boat handy just in case. the water will be rising for weeks, and to see by how much, in just a few days, this house here will be submerged. russ? >> mitchell: hearing the gentlemen in your piece, i wonder are there a lot of folks refusing to evacuate? >> well, they are refusing for two reasons. basically, one is emotio

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it's over with, it's over with. >> reporter: it's over for butte la rose. too painful for people to hear. >> there's going to be a strong current. >> reporter: as pain turns to anger. colonel ed flemming offers a little comfort. >> in 22 years i have moved 14 times. we might have a box, you might have some important documents you might have some pictures, some keepsake things, those are things we're going to put in the car when that moving truck drives away and you're standing in your driveway with your family and a couple of suitcases and a box, that's when you find out what's important to you. >> and the sadness of the moment brings kelly trimm to tears. >> it's worse than we thought. we thought we might have water in our yard, instead it's going to come into our homes, it's going to take everything we have got. >> pierre watermeyer knows it's time to pack up and put butte la rose in his rear view mirror, but it's not his last dance. >> we'll dance again around here. >> reporter: and the sign will be the last thing he grabs on the way out of town. ed lave

martin parish joining us from butte larose this morning. thank you again. >> bmg, over to you. >> devastating situation. but as you said, they are fighters, dan. >>> we want to turn to an international sex scandal that erupted overnight in new york city. picture this, one of the most powerful bankers in the world sitting in a first class seat on an air france jet just minutes before takeoff back to paris. all of a sudden police sweep on the plane and take him away. now he's sitting in jail here in new york charged with attempted rape. mike marusarz has the details? outside the hotel where the alleged assault took place. good morning, mike. >> reporter: bianna, good morning to you. his name is dominique strauss-kahn and he's accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a maid in a luxury room at this posh midtown manhattan hotel. it's straight out of a hollywood script. one of the world's most elite financial figures, a possible presidential candidate, snatched from his first-class seat moments before his paris-bound plane took off from new york

. >> reporter: empty homes line the streets of butte larose, louisiana. most have packed up and left now that a massive flood is headed this way. james o'brian is one of the last to leave. >> one more truckload. i'll be ready to say good-bye. i don't think my trailer will be here when i get back. >> the army corps of engineers is diverting even more water from the swollen mississippi river into the morganza spillway. the flooding will cover a massive area in the next ten days and could reach 20 feet in some places. the government is flooding communities in the spillway to spare cities like baton rouge and new orleans. but that doesn't make it easier for jane solar who's live in this home for more than 60 years. >> they're not going to let the cities drown, they're going to drown us poor people. >> here in butte larose, they the national guard set up a roadblock to restrict access to the community. major flooding has not yet reached this area. but officials don't want people who were evacuated to return during the emergency. floods have ravished towns up a

picked up dirty cigarette butts. >> if you stop smoking, everybody's going to get fat butts. get on the twinkie patrol. >> reporter: richard roth, cnn. >>> let's take another look at the markets. some markets in europe were, what, just under two hours into the trading day, and we're seeing quite a bit of buying going on with all of the markets up by 1% and in the case of the xetra dax up nearly 2%. andrew? >>> pretty strong day in asia as well, charles. particularly shanghai after eight days of losses you see there, shanghai bouncing back 1.4% gain. not shab e as all with the shanghai. pretty strong day all around. and nikkei up by nearly 2% after the japanese yen showed signs of weakening now at 8175 against the u.s. dollar and sizable production may be starting to return to normal after the quake and the tsunami in march. hong kong having a strong day. up by 2% and australia rounding out good day in asia up nearly 1%. >>> that's it for this edition of "world business today" thanks for joining us. andrew stevens in hong kong. >> and i'm charles hobson in london. "world one"

larose. >> butte larose, i think they've already been definitively given a map. people in baton rouge and south of i-10 need to stay aware of the news. they need to be prepared particularly between south of i-10 in baton rouge toward the river. oh, by the way, that's where my new home is. that's where i live. be prepared if there's flooding from some of the tributaries that might back in or if there's a boil that creates some localized flooding. that could disrupt interstate transportation and movement between baton rouge and new orleans. so people need to stay aware, they need to have a three-day supply of food and water at home. roads could close even though they have shelter at home. that's the basic doctrine of the red cross. >> general hon raore, good to sk with you on such a grave topic. >> let's pray for the best and be prepared for the worst. >> absolutely. thank you, general. >>> in the days after the raid that killed osama bin laden, the world was captivated, even hungry for more details on the operation on bin laden's last moments and on s.e.a.l. team

i'm asking about the other areas to be impacted like butte larose is a and chemical plants there, they're building walls around some plants because they're concerned about the impact. take our viewers inside of what people are dealing with right now as we speak. >> reporter: well, we spent a lot of time, we've noticed a community with about 800 homes in it, and it's kind of a weekend place for a lot of people. there are a good number of people, but that town is directly in the path of the floodwaters as they will be flowing there. i'm told it will take about a day and a half for the water to reach that area. but everybody has left. they were told a few days ago to expect 15 feet of water in their community. so as we were there a few days ago, don, we saw people literally packing up every last piece of belonging they could get out of their house, even taking air-conditioning units, refrigerators, everything they could pick off the ground, heading for drier ground. >> ed lavandera, thank you very much, we'll have much more in just a little bit at the half hour here on cnn. we're going to ta

this is in central butte county south of chico. forecasters say this storm may also produce large hail and strong winds. >>> memorial day weekend is the unofficial start to summer treaty would not know it from today's rain in parts of the bay area. jana katsuyama is live. >> reporter: forget april showers, this is may showers today. showers stoked to san francisco today, dousing people in a late may downpour. >> i do not remember it was raining -- raining this late in may. >> we had been expecting sunny days and we were trying to work on the railroad tracks. >> it has been a wetter than normal year. >> reporter: while the cool temperatures are about the same as last year, people's perception about more rain are not far from reality. >> most areas of california are 110-130% of normal. in the sierra, nevada,, the snowpack is important for the water supply. >> reporter: the grass is greener at the golden gate park polo fields much renovations were delayed a two weeks. still some bay area residents are soaking it in >> i love it. >> re

i know you can go on fox and friends and have neo-con smoke blown up your butt when you're ready to have a big discussion will be here so there's a chorus you're still welcome to come on the show anytime and we'd love to talk with you but remember it was road rage himself but said libertarianism is the heart and soul conservatism there you just got reagan spanked republicans. join me now is conservative commentator and political analyst jack hunter a frequent columnist on the american conservative and the charleston city paper in south carolina a key primary state he recently released a report a report to knowledge of his article entitled who's a republican and which makes his own assertions about ron paul's conservative credentials on foreign policy and social issues jack thank you so much for being with us tonight good to be with yet i understand what's happening here i see it i can i can watch it unfold and i think i understand what's happening but i don't know how it got this way why it is why have we come to this point. well you know mr maliki and his tea which he attacks wrong as y

. >> reporter: for residents of butte larose it was reprieve. in many cases they left their homes undefended. now they were giving a second chance. >> i have better shot of protecting my property. >> reporter: there are were some whoer in planned to leave in the first place. >> made the decision to leave the last second. we're not going to get out unless it's obviously still does. >> reporter: east of butte larose, the city of baton baton rouge awaits its turn. a 20-barge accident closed five miles of the mississippi river on friday. >> alan: i'm glad it's not the end of the world today. we wont be able to enjoy this nice weather. >> leigh: the low clouds are moving in bought lot of sunshine still with us. the westerly breeze really kicking up. anybody over the waters the low cloud and fog, the sea breezes are going to move it inland tonight. still have two 70s. santa rosa, 71 and los gatos, 70. 57 right now san francisco. concord, 64. we had 69 in antioch and 62 right now in livermore. here's a look at the winds. they're starting to die down in

of you take a look at the dates, may 24th, that's about 2 feet above flood stage in butte la rose. farther to the south, 6 feet above. maya point 2 feet above flood stage, and back on bayou city on may 25th. here the numbers for you, but also the dates. may 15th. that's when we had, the heaviest cresting of course. farther south, on the 19th, expect 14.5 feet above flood stage. record flooding on may 27th. for natchez. and then new orleans, cresting as we speak, just an amazing job they've done on the half of the mississippi river. very quickly to wrap things up, you can expect rain in the eastern half of the u.s. very dry conditions from the u.s./canadian border. back to the u.s., it's a combination of rain, sleet, and in the highest elevations the sierra nevada, some snowfall. >>> today's the day that the federal debt reaching its actual legal limit. we're going to tell you what's been done to keep the country from defaulting. [ male announcer ] sitting, waiting, hoping. that's not how successful investing is done. at e-trade it's harnessing some of the most powerful yet easy to

must have one butt-ugly father. heh. yeah. [thinking] damn you, karma. >> may 10, 2011. from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ( captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome to "the daily show," my name is jon stewart. we've got a nice show for you tonight. thanks for joining us. tonight on the program we have a young comedic actor, willis ferrell. (laughter) young gentleman's going to be joining us, i hear great things. really excited to meet him. let's begin tonight in the south. our hearts go out to those along the mississippi who are suffering not just from a catastrophic flood of water but also from a monsoon of media one upmanship. (laughter) the debilitating coverage began as the waters rose up to swallow one reporter's feet, creeping up to the knee, moving slowly up to the thigh, consuming the hips and finally, thank god, cresting at the nipple! (laughter and applause) the water crested at the nipple. (laughter) all these reporters bravely waded into the surging mississ

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the tornadoes blew through glenn and butte counties. one touched down near durham. rural community, five miles south of chico. abc7's leslie brinkley shows us more. >> reporter: dramatic hail, and thunderstorm activity. san francisco state meteorologist dave dempsey grew up in chico and said he has never seen anything like this. >> the shape is a classic funnel shape. coming down from good healthy thunderstorm. reaches the ground. you can see the debris kicked up by the tornado. spun around. it's magnificent. fortunately not anything like the devastating ones that hit alabama and missouri recently, in joplin. the wind speeds were measured close to 200 miles per hour. the ones in california never get anywhere near that strong. they might be in the 70 to 80, 90-mile-per-hour. >> each year, only six to 12 tornadoes form in the whole state of california. march is the peak month. tornados in may are rare. but he says the butte in the region are the closest we have to tornado alley. >> after a cold front has gone through, the way that the winds get organized they blow aro

every butte top, you are going it look down on this desert and see these bold lines coming across the desert and you know that line goes somewhere. you get on it, you stay on it, and it will lead you to what are called great houses, up it 3 acres in size. these great houses are often aligned in a certain way so that at certain times of year, say summer solstice, light comes through certain windows. i have sat in these at different times of the year and watched this light show start at sunrise where lights start appearing on the walls all around me and you realize this is how you tell time out in this landscape. this is the way they did calendars. this is the way they understood the larger sphere, the moving of the heavens, was by setting up structures that could receive the light in certain ways. i mean, it's happening everywhere. i was just in salt lake city and i took a walk downtown and i saw a pillar that had been built in the last 4 years that a big block of sandstone that i recognized. it was probably wingate sandstone that had been hauled up there from about 200, 250 miles away

he's packing up his butte larose home and heading for higher ground. leaving his cypress clad home shattered, this big tough oil worker. what is it like to think about losing your house? >> the words -- no words. because i built this myself. >> reporter: the atchafalaya river is already above 19 feet. the national weather service's jonathan bryzell marked a telephone pole to show residents what could happen. >> if they open the spillway gates at 50%, so half are open, we're expecting the level to get to 29. >> john menard is resigned. >> mother nature is mother nature, and there's not much you can do about it, you know. >> reporter: few here are willing to take a chance on mother nature. even though the flood is not expected to hit here until next week, today, we already found nurses moving homebound patients out of harm's way. brian? >> its 'tough to watch, anne, and we have to talk about new orleans. a city, when you mention it, you of katrina, the oil spill, a city kind of in recovery, continuing to shine, and what's in it for them in this flood? >>

." butt to this is no publicity stunt. they can throw up a big sign & a banner for that." tonight, the number of people still missing in joplin is down to 29. fema says it may bring in trailers --like those used after katrina -- to house the thousands of people displaced by the tornado eight days ago. checking some bay area headlines... publicity stunt, they could throw up a big sign and a banner for that. >> the number of people still anying is down to 29. they say they may bring in some of the trailers like those used after hurricane cuttino to house the people displaced by the tornado 8 days ago. >>> checking some bay area headlines a slight lane change mr the bay area commute in the morning. over the weekend caltrans completed work shifting the eastbound lanes to the right near the toll plaza. this will give crews more room to work on the new span which will open in the fall of 2013. >>> pg&e is joining the call to relax state sanders on power poles. several utilities have appealed the public utilities commission polic

this is one of the funnel clouds spotted in butte county yesterday afternoon. it pulled debris off the ground but no one was hurt. this twister touched down near durham. take a look hat that one. a tiny farming community about five miles south of chico. a tornado warning was in place until about 7:30 last night. we have more of that incredible video on our website at ktvu.com. look for it under the right now section right on our front page. >>> about a dozen states in the midwest are under tornado warnings and watches this morning. no deaths are being reported in the latest hit in missouri or indiana after tornadoes touched down there yesterday. storms tuesday night in arkansas, oklahoma and kansas did kill at least 15 people at this point. and the search for survivors continues in joplin, missouri, where 125 people were killed. >>> air traffic over europe is returning to normal this morning. we want to show you final eruptions. take a look at these pictures. that's from the volcano in iceland. that occurred early wednesday morning. now europe's air traffic con

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. >> reporter: the bayham store is butte larose is one of more than 10,000 homes and businesses in cajun country sitting inside the morganza spillway. >> how deep are they predicting it will be? >> about 12 feet, 12 to 14 foot right here. >> reporter: the army corps of engineers opened the floodgates of the mississippi on saturday. thousands of acres inside the spillway are already flooded. and water will soon start showing up here, outside the store his father owns. how are you dealing with it? i mean emotionally? >> just trying -- really, ain't really dealing with it. just trying to get as much out as we can. >> reporter: with the mandatory evacuation order looming, it's neighbor helping neighbor, doing what they can to protect their property before the flood gets here. >> this is a very poor community. people who live here are not wealthy. >> reporter: by tuesday, these homes, and everything else in a 3,000 square mile area, millions of acres, will be flooded. water depth will range from 6 to 25 feet. it's part of the army corps of engineers' plan to sacrifice some communities to keep

twisters hit sparsely populated area in glenn and butte county north of sacramento. one believed to have touched down in durham, rural community outside of chico. san francisco state meteorologist dave dempsey grew up there. >> mike will agree we have the quota for the year. >> hopefully we're done. as far as rain, we're not done yet. >> nothing is unusual about our weather either. it hasn't been as excuse in the midwest and southeast. yet it was extreme. with report of tornadoes. we saw it just blow that semi-truck apart. that was amazing. all right, here is what happened. that lone, one lone supercell thunderstorm that moved through. we had cold air in the upper part of the atmosphere. warm air at the bottom because of the sun. twisting of the low pressure behind the cold front. that's all you needed. there you go. that is gone. we have a zonal flow and the winds are moving west to east. sea breeze, cooling sea breeze. even with the sunshine and mixture of clouds, below average again. 40s and 50s at 8:00. not much change from now. noon will be in the upper 50s to l

i'm one of the highest pieces of property in butte larose. we're praying it doesn't come up four or five feet. then everything i did in here would be just devastated. i don't know if i would ever want to come back. >> we'll continue our flood coverage here. also ahead, new details of the sex scandal that has one of france's most prominent political figures in a new york jail. >>> and newt gingrich says don't expect him to be consistent on the big issues. we search, browse, and shop from anywhere. we live in a social world. isn't time we had a social currency to match? membership reward points from american express. use them to get the things you love on amazom.com. >>> welcome back. we're live in the floodwaters in butte larose, louisiana. >>> today maria shriver responded to the revelation that her es stranged husband, former california governor arnold schwarzenegger father ad child. she said this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i asker for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i

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is some capitalists are literally the guy who makes his living by sitting on his butt around the pool waiting for the check to arrive you know the dividend check to arrive it is taking capital putting it at is at risk sometimes the risk is not so great you know loaning it out for example or helping start a business providing capital and then basically making a return on their capital and never actually even involving themselves in the business and isn't there a difference between back kind of activity and the guy who goes out and starts a business or a man or woman who is and starts a business with their own money or with sweat equity or with a loan from from you know dad or whatever and and builds a small business with her for employees with that latter person be a capitalist. yes the latter person who has a few employees would be a capitalist but you're quite right the history of capitalism hundreds of years ago was a story of individuals making that effort usually small groups of workers and working usually alongside their own employees and slowly amassing a reasonable amount of mo

in butte larose, they know some of these homes could be destroyed. i talked to the parish president tonight. he said probably a thousand homes in this community will be inundated because of the deliberate flood. earlier today, we were up north in the river. at one point you had vidalia, louisiana, on one side, natchez, mississippi, on the other. on the vidalia said, $100 million, a hospital, a convention center. at one point today there was a breach in that. the mayor was concerned he would lose his economic backbone. tonight they have secured that, but they're still worried because the river could crest there. on the natchez side, most of the homes are up on the hillside and protected. we went down to the coast guard station, which, as you would expect, is right along the river, and that is flooded. they have an inch or so of water inside the coast guard building. i had these waders on. urgently they're trying to protect that. you see this all up and down the mississippi, eliot. in many communities, the cresting, some will be saturday. the cresting

backwater flooding is now forcing residents in butte larose, louisiana to evacuate. mandatory evacuations in butte larose that were put on hold are being reinstated right now. that order applies to -- included the media, as well. most of the residents have already evacuated, but still some insist on riding out the flood. >>> analysis by a research firm estimates the amount needed to divert, could flood more than 20,000 homes and cost more than $2.2 billion in damage. >>> airlines and travelers across europe are carefully watching an erupting volcano in iceland that began spewing ash on saturday. the resulting cloud of volcanic ash has forced airlines to cancel about 500 flights around the united kingdom. while the concentration of the ash at london's heathrow remains low, the cancellations are double the number expected earlier this morning. the ash cloud will effect the u.k. denmark and parts of scandinavia today and is forecast to cover all of british air space by 1:00 a.m. on wednesday. >>> well, you just saw the images, historic tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and

. >>> we saw firsthand the butte the tornado damage. >> reporter: when the tornadod showed down in butte county, the picture showed mild damage. but today the view was clear. almond growers linda vanilla and her husband tom showed us this, a picture she took of one of these big almond trees in midair. >> it literally takes it and drops it over the top of this telephone pole and it lands in this orchard over here. >> reporter: linda and tom also snapped these pictures of tornado shown less than a quarter mile away. >> what were you feeling, what were you thinking? >> awe, it was no fear. it was just the absolute brutality that was going on. >> reporter: her almond grove was lightly hit. her concern is for her neighbors who lost much more. perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. this aerial photograph shows a path cut out of this orchard. the tornado also destroyed one garage and lightly damaged several homes. >> it's not as devastating as the ones back east but it's a major hit to these farmers. >> monetary damages. >> reporter: ken pritchett, k tvu channel 2 news. >>> an unso

bush who's been sitting on his butt in a gated community in texas for two years check out what sarah palin had to say yesterday at a rally in colorado. yet can't. get and. you have me. and he gave me. where i am. now one single word acknowledging it was president obama she wouldn't mention his name yet he ordered this thing he put it together he couldn't he asked leon panetta to come up with four options he chose the one you know he demanded the back up bill a copter was returned out was needed so much better former president sitting on their butt watching television a former president going around the world coddling dictators like jimmy carter but you're too sure absolutely he was just in north korea this wrote an op ed praising hamas and this is this is his m.o. but this is no it was exactly the point i think i first of all i very happy to praise president obama to see what he did was a very risky call high risk high reward and he should be rewarded for taking out a merican enemy number one would have very dangerous and risky operation however bush doesn't deserve no good no credit

bill a copter was turned out was needed to point to a much better former president sitting on their butt watching television a former president going around the world coddling dictators like jimmy carter but to your sure absolutely he was just in north korea this wrote an op ed praising hamas this is this is his m.o. but this is no it was exactly the point i think i first of all i very happy to praise president obama to see what he did was a very risky call high risk high reward that he should be rewarded for taking out a enemy number one with a very dangerous and risky operation however bush doesn't deserve no no credit here at all some of the policies that he put in place to help get us some of the threads of information that got us for example two thousand the new york times july fourth two thousand and six mark mazetti the central intelligence agency has closed the unit for a decade had the mission of honey osama bin laden intelligence officials confirm monday known as alex station was disbanded last year to. we basically stopped looking in fact to you goes on is a really focusing on

yunji de nies is in butte larose. it is expect td be totally submerged in a week. >> reporter: this might be one of the last glimpses of butte la rose louisiana. already it is a ghost town. the few ill-fated residents left are reluctant to making their way out of the neighborhood. >> this is the house that we raised our children in and what we would reallyic to keep. >> reporter: but time and tide are closing in. >> we have a lot of memories gone or will be gone more than likely. >> reporter: gone under a wall of water. just like that. this home, already evacuated, would be almost totally submerged, and this laundromat 13-feet tall, would disappear under water. some are leaving with heads and hopes high. >> this is all i've ever wanted and i'm here and we'll be back. >> reporter: for spillway gates were opened on top of the nine opened over the weekend. >> approximately 10,000 cubic feet per second per gate. so that's 90,000 cubic feet per second. >> reporter: the manmade flood is dissipating the natural force of the

. >>> we saw firsthand the butte the tornado damage. >> reporter: when the tornadod showed down in butte county, the picture showed mild damage. but today the view was clear. almond growers linda vanilla and her husband tom showed us this, a picture she took of one of these big almond trees in midair. >> it literally takes it and drops it over the top of this telephone pole and it lands in this orchard over here. >> reporter: linda and tom also snapped these pictures of tornado shown less than a quarter mile away. >> what were you feeling, what were you thinking? >> awe, it was no fear. it was just the absolute brutality that was going on. >> reporter: her almond grove was lightly hit. her concern is for her neighbors who lost much more. perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. this aerial photograph shows a path cut out of this orchard. the tornado also destroyed one garage and lightly damaged several homes. >> it's not as devastating as the ones back east but it's a major hit to these farmers. >> monetary damages. >> reporter: ken pritchett, k tvu channel 2 news. >>> an unso

---se espera que el sistema de tormentas se dirija hacia el este, con direccion a los condados de "butte" y "glenn". --esta tarde la asociacion de maestros de oakland realizo una protesta contra los recortes a los programas de educacion para adultos.--los maestros tambien piden un alto a los recortes a los servicios de consejeria en las escuelas secundarias.--con la protesta, los docentes inconformes pretenden presionar al distrito escolar unificado de oakland a que reconsidere los recortes. betty olson jones/pdte. asociacion de maestros de oakland la asociacion de maestros de oakland indicó que de los 25-mil personas que se beneficiaban con las clases de ingles para adultos, la cifra se redujo a menos de mil. ---los asuntos de faldas del ex gobernador de california, "arnold schwarzenegger", presuntamente son tema de una investigacion estatal.---segun algunas fuentes, la oficina del fiscal de california investiga si "schwarzenegger" uso a su equipo de guardaespaldas y a la patrulla de caminos de california (financiados con dinero de los contribuyentes) para que escoltaran mujeres en sec

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very important for the tourists as well as the night life, because they do make a mess with cigarette butts and listening to some of the testimony about urination, and what they end up cleaning up its finances after patrons -- is the mess after patrons. we are in favor of getting the permit, because we would like to see new venues established as one of our goals to work with new businesses as long as they have the proper good neighbor policies in place, and since this is an existing 10 year -- venue, and our only concern is that it maintains itself as a good neighbor. i also have offices across the street at the grant a building. we have been waiting to see what will happen. we want to see that there will be more businesses along eighth street, so we welcome the new venue. thank you. >> any other members of the public wish to address this? seeing none, the item is with the commission. i have a motion. >> i wish to address this. >> i second that. >> i need a point of clarification as far as the recommendations from southern station and whether or not the commission is including those in thei