. >> chris lynn makes his living on the water fishing. even he can't believe what he is seeing. emotion and pain levels rising along with the flood waters. kirk gregory, nbc news. >> elsewhere there has been a flare up of violence along israel's borders that have level 15 people dead. syr syria, lebanon and gaza fr preventing demonstrators. it came on a day of mourning for event that uprooted thousands of palestinians. and now a look at other news. a camera captured a hit and run accident in denver where a 10 year boy ran into the street. the collision threw the boy several feet leaving him with scrapes and bruises. the driver is still at large. >>> winds in arizona produced a scary moment at a kid's party. wind ripped it from the ground. the ordeal left one person hospitalized and others with minor injuries. and in connecticut, finally good news from that teen who was banned from his prom. school officials reversed the decision citing multiple disstrksdi distracti distractions. the senior handed down punishment. james, did not come away unscathed. this unspecified new punishmen

. >> reporter: chris lynne makes his living on the water fishing. he can't believe what he's seeing. >> the higher the water gets, the more it sinks in. >> shares in yahoo are closely watched this morning. they have having trouble with their asian partner. let's turn to nicole lapin at cnbc. good morning. >> good morning, scott. great to see you again. futures are lower. coming off a down day. europe is in the red. we get a fair amount of economic data with reports on housing starts, industrial production and minutes from the fed meeting. to recap the dow falling 100 points. the head of the imf is expected to be arraigned in new york this morning. he was arrested on charges of attempted rape on a hotel maid. the imf is expected to hold a board meeting. the incident could not come at a worse time for the imf that oversees the global financial system. europe is looking at bail outs for countries in debt like greece. kick starting a scramble to avoid a default. the white house and congress are trying to get together and reach a budget deal to satisfy r

. >> reporter: chris lynn makes his living on the water fishing. even he can't believe what he is seeing. >> the higher the water gets, the more it sinks in. it's depressing, actually. >> reporter: emotion and pain levels rising, along with the floodwaters. kurt gregory, nbc news. >>> despite the fact that it seems like every other car in the bay area is a prius, the bay area may be the exception to the rule. there is pretty strong evidence out there that americans just aren't buying into an idea that was supposed to save gas and save the environment. more from nbc's chris clackum. >> reporter: so you think with gas prices this high that sales of hybrid or electric cars would really get charged up. but think again. so far they make up only 2% of all vehicles sold in the u.s. now we do see that moving up to about 8 to 9% by 2016. but by no means is that going to become the predominant choice for consumers in the car market. just last month, general motors sold only 500 of its plug-in compacts, the chevy volt, while april sales of its gas compact, th

. >> reporter: chris lynn makes his living on the water fishing. he can't believe what he is seeing. >> as high as the water gets, the more it sinks many. it's just depress, actually. >> reporter: the river won't crest in vicksburg until later this week. now, here at the morganza spillway, two bays are open, and officials will continue to open more bays in an effort to manage the river until it crests here next week. officials also say that this spillway could remain open well into june. lester. >> ann thompson this morning. ann, thank you very much. as ann mentioned, vicksburg, one of the places fighting rising waters. nbc's tom trung is in vicksburg, mississippi. >> reporter:.river is expected to rise above 58 feet. that's something that hapt been seen since 1957. neighborhoods like these are taking on more water every day, and that's begun to continue until the river cresteds at 57 1/2 feet. all the eyes are on the levees. the army corps of engineers spent the entire week shoring them up. as can you see here, some neighborhoods regardless will b

chris? >> cbs' jim axelrod for us this morning. jim, thank you. and for more perspective we're joined by james han lynn a former new york firefighter and co-director and executive producer of the documentary 9/11 which first aired in 2002 right here on cbs. james, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> when you first heard the news that bin laden was killed was it a sense of relief? a sense of justice? >> i think it was more of a sense of justice. justice had been done. it's not relief, because it's -- it kind of brings you straight back to that day, and makes you kind of relive the what happened that day, and everything that was lost, and, you know, the kind of tragedy of it. it kind of brought me back to that. >> have you had a chance to talk to some of your other firefighter brothers in the last couple hours to kind of sense what their reaction gauge, what their reaction was, how they're feeling? >> i did last night. i spoke to a few firefighters, and it kind of was a more somber talk that we had about it. no one was really cheering or, or re