feel that gadhafi s forces weren t going to catch up with her. she has been living in fear of them since she alleged she has been raped. and i asked her about that terrible incident and ordeal she went through. she said she was not going to give up on trying to bring these men who did this to her to justice. translator: i was telling myself to defy them. these animals cannot slip without punishment. i must speak out, no matter how much people would talk about me and would blame me and would ask, how could a libyan woman and a muslim, go on the media and say this. all these things did not matter to me. now, the chief prosecutor says that she could be just one case of all of the others. and that s why he s investigating them. it s a headline issue for him and obviously for the libyan opposition and for the women of libya. suzanne? nick robertson, thank you very much. thank you. we re going to take a closer look at the case against gadhafi later this hour. our michael holmes is go
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike
even far thur. according to mainstream models, not right or left wing super progressive models, 16% unemployment. if taxes are not the issue, jeff, what is for jobs in this country? spending and specific programs aimed at jobs including industrial policy, investing in infrastructure, green technologies. maybe even, and this is extreme, maybe even federal employment policies where the federal government becomes the employer at last resort. when you hear a democrat say the deficit is the major issue we face, i just, i just i guess i just want to cry. i want to pick up on the deficit issue, which has been a headline issue, jim. do you get the sense that the understanding of the deficit is as correlatined to the