the palestinians going, but there won't be a big major bill clinton type of speech. there's not the circumstances for that. then fim lfinally syria, big is. expect him to come out stock on syria. he might even go so far as to call for a transition. that will be very significant with president bashar al assad. then the last one, osama bin laden. you'll hear something that we expect that we've been hearing from u.s. officials which is the ideology of osama bin laden is basically over. he is history. this ideology has nothing to do with what the people who came out for arab spring want. they want something else and they want improvement in their lives, not that ideology. wolf? >> jill dougherty over at the white house. we'll have live coverage on thursday of the president's speech on the middle east. thousands of louisiana homes sacrificed to floodwaters to save major cities including new