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
arnold schwarzenegger and the scandal. you re in the situation room. he s a billionaire and head of a powerful world agency. the international monetary fund dominique strauss-kahn now sits in the new york city jail cell facing sex crime charges for assaulting and he does not qualify for diplomatic immunity. what s going on? wolf, it s 24 hours now for dominique strauss-kahn. he has had one unidentified visitor so far. prosecutors are analyzing forensic evidence strauss-kahn cannot do much for his isolation cell and they are consideringing the options and he sits in jail. sl it an impossible mission for his lawyers? and it will be fight the alleged victim is now worried. i am totally confident in this woman. whal so ever. the woman is lying and there s reason to believe she might be lying. this is a high-stakes case. two, the second defense in a case like that is consent. something might have happened but it s not what she says and she consented to it. strauss-kahn s
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