captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello. you re in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i m fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana s biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that s what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn t been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps of engineers, it s a necessary move to protect major cities. they re going to open it slowly so people and wildlife are not caught by surprise. there s a slow opening for a lot of reasons. one is from an engineering perspective. the water will come out of here pretty quickly. you don t want to scour the back side of this structure. from an environmental perspective, ofb yous think there are lots
presidency in the republican party primary. ron paul is running for president again. if he had won the last time, guess what he wouldn t have done about bin laden? then, remember japan. this is a ticking time bomb. i ll ask him if the japanese government has learned from its mistakes. how bad in libya? 30,000 refugees crammed into leaking boats. a terrifying trip toll safety. some have made it. many have not. more on the way. body parts scattered across the street. that s how witnesses describe the gruesome scene in northwest pakistan after the taliban followed through on it s promise to exact revenge for osama bin laden s death. they waited until military recruits gathered outside the fort after just completing a nine-month training program. they were heading back home to their villages. then the back-to-back explosions hit. cnn s stan grand visited the scene earlier today and joins us from islamabad. it must have been gruesome. reporter: it certainly was a grues
for years, most of the boat people were subsaharan african migrants but now there is a new driver, the grinding war in libya. it s very dangerous. let me see, i don t know. i can t say. so i have to i have to escape. it s only noon and this is already the third fishing boat crammed with migrants and refugees to land here in just one morning. on friday, more than 1200 refugees from libya landed in a single day. we have experienced the reality everywhere in the world. every time you have a war, you have civilians that try to escape. reporter: the united nations says more than 30,000 my grants and refugees have landed here in just the last three months. this is a russian roulette.
that he can win the white house. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. the taliban warn that this will not be the only death. they are claiming back to back suicide bombings at a pakistani training facility in northwest pakistan. at least 80 people were killed, most of them pakistani army recruits. reza is joining us live from islamabad with pretty horrendous crime. what are they saying where you are, reza? reporter: well, wolf, this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people and indeed it did just that. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of army recruits that had just finished an extended training session, about nine months. they were celebrating the night before. they came out of this facility early this morning, ready to go home, about to board some vans and that s when police say a suicide attacker came on the scene, and people were there to help and that s when police said another suicide attacker, and the aftermath was an awful see
scheduled 6:15 and that is complete and the astronauts woke up 6:00 a.m. and will suit up in 90 minutes and at the top of noon, they will drive the astro van out to the launch pad to load into shuttle endeavour, one by one. bill: how this is crew doing and what did they say yesterday, overnight, anything this morning? reporter: they are very quiet, when it comes to the last two days before a launch. however, nasa released this very cool glory photo of the six men, on this last shuttle endeavour ever mission, mission, and they went out to launch pad 39a and stood out therein front of the shuttle and the orange fuel tank, a pretty cool shot for the memory books there, and gabrielle giffords, the congresswoman, wife of commander mark kelly is on hand and, officials are keeping her activities private and she s watching from an undisclosed spot and it is unclear where president obama and his wife and daughters will watch the launch as well but, perhaps, the