again. the tactic holds up in court, but sometimes it gets criticism when the judge is overseeing the case. let s bring in the former director of homeland security in the state. he helped write the laws that heads the red land strategies which is a consulting firm that specializes in homeland security. we have seen this before. we have. somebody comes up not that they can or would be able to or have the connections or the weapons or the supplies to do it. if they say they want to do it they have a terror bust and have a pr event. is it as separational or operational? that s what the feds are charged with. when you do crime you have an event and you respond and you investigate and prosecute. here the feds have the duty, the mandate to go and prevent something from happening. when is the right time to go after these people? defining what terrorism is. i wrote the law in new york. how do you define the act of terrorism?
new york city. their flight landed about an hour ago. at this time they are heading for an undisclosed location in manhattan where we expect to hear from them later this afternoon. there are so many questions for these young men. we don t know many of the details of their 780 plus days behind bars. here s what we do know. shane and josh have been charged and convicted and sentenced to a years in prison for illegally crossing the border of iran for spying. as of wednesday the iranian ministry released them in their words as a soon of islamic mercy. the timing is suspect. they are coming home around the one year anniversary of sarah shourd s release she was also hiking with them in northern iraq when they were taken into custody. that one year anniversary coincides with the u.n. s general an stem buy where president ahmadinejad makes his annual e t release has bee described as a pr event that said, what the pr event to iran is the conclusion of a
the river and its tributaries will overflow that levee within the next several days. what they are trying to do is stop the erosion from hitting farm lands on this supposedly dry side of the mississippi and its tributaries. i can tell you that s not dry any more. the water has started to seep over on the other side that s supposed to be dry. they ve been rushing to get this project completed and managed to complete that section today, john. what is your sense, casey? officially officials are warning people it s coming. it s days away, it s coming. sometimes advanced warning is great because people have time to move their things out of the way. sometimes emergency officials say if you tell them early they lose their sense of urgency. that is what happens. they think they ll get the people out. one of the problems but this pr event is so slow-moving it will last for a really long time.
they wanted to have this as a pr event as opposed to military thing. so they wanted to show they are the lovers of peace. so see if that what kind of traction that gets. but it s a very strategically chosen maneuver. excellent. good to you, dr. professor han park a professor of international affairs and director of the study of global issues at the university of georgia. teachers fill out report cards for students. one expert says it s time to turn the tables. we ll talk to him after the break.
some of the confusion this morning. thank you. we ll move on to health care now. it s going to be a road show as the president travel to philly for a town hall while senior aides here in washington are working house democrats to try to get them on board. nbc s kelly o donnell is here with us. it seems like a two-track process, then. at home here in washington, they re trying the muscle the votes. but then there s this pr event, the president going out to town halls. for the president, it s a chance for him to hammer home his view of this. he picked pennsylvania, a state where arlen specter is on the ballot, and it s a battleground state. but at home, there s some language being written now and that seems like the nitty-gritty behind the scenes kind of things, but it s critical if you re going to convince these house democrats that aren t satisfied to go along with this. those critical details are still going on today. a couple of things.