the governor of louisiana says the record water levels could last more than a month. houston s newspaper reports that doctors will perform major surgery on gabrielle giffords. but first, we have an idea of who will leave al-qaeda and it s not who you d expect. dan rivers is in london. who is this man? this is saif al-adel, who is a former egyptian special forces officer, a veteran of al-qaeda, the chief of their military committee for many years. a veteran of afghanistan and somalia. he s got a long record as a terrorist. he has been appointed in a caretaker capacity to sort of look after the organization while they try and find a permanent replacement for bin laden, which may be sa hary. that has been hampered by the intelligence that the u.s. has seized at bin laden s layer in pakistan. do we know where he is now? saif al-adel we understand is in afghanistan. we re not sure where, but his talked from one source, a former libyan islamist, now turned his back on ter
couple uncoupled. we look behind the breakup of maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger. the road to nowhere. the mississippi s rising water levels turned river side communities into ghost towns as thousands are forced to get out. and meet a real hamburger fan with an appetite for big macs that is undiminished after 39 years. to heal the past, queen elizabeth s visit to ireland moves into what could be the most significant day with a visit to the site of a british massacre. hours from now all of ireland will be watching as the queen visits a stadium where in 1920 british troops opened fire on a crowd watching a football match. 14 people were killed. it was a key moment for the irish independence struggle and came to be known as bloody sunday. for many, the sight of a british monarch walking on to the pitch will be a deeply symbolic moment. mr. cameron is due to talk business and politics with irish prime minister. on such a big day, the queen might light some dutch courage.
morning. a lot of people in attendance last night at the state of the union address. several supreme court justices. one was absence and maybe notably absent, samuel alito. last year he mouthed the words clearly not agreeing with what the president was saying, mouthed not true. you re seeing antonin scalia and clarence thomas. they traditionally don t go at all. but samuel alito had another engagement out in hawaii. that s why he wasn t there. teaching law for the month. nice time of year to go there, right? interior secretary ken salazar not there but that s because he was the white house s designated survivor. everyone on the presidential order of succession list in the same room so one cabinet member is sent to an undisclosed location in case of mass catastrophe. if anything had happened he would have been tapped to take over the country. undisclosed location. at home on the couch.
be the chief of staff and held the white house together. and of course, also most memorably for many of us who covered it, the asas flags attempt against ronald reagan. it was march 30, 1981. the president had been taken to george washington hospital. people were very confused about his state. no one knew until years later, in fact, how seriously ill he was during that surgery. and alexander h ai g after a meeting in the situation room without authorization really from anyone else, as secretary of state to ronald reagan, rushed to the white house briefing room and said, gentlemen, i am in control here. and then alex misstated the succession, indicating after the vice president that he as secretary of state was in the constitutional order of succession. it became very controversial. he looked emotional and shaken and he didn t you know, he said constitutionally,
away from mueller the way they detoured him from getting rid of sessions. people that advice the president inside the west wing, we have not seen any evidence that trump is getting any contrary advice, and firing jeff sessions is a way to fire mueller or getting republicans to defund the investigation. the order of succession, the change of command at the doj, if jeff sessions were to be fired, you would go to rod rosenstein, and rosenstein indicated he will not fire bob mueller unless it s for cause. after that you get to rachel grand who is the associate attorney general and then dana boente who announced he would resign and he s still the u.s. attorney for the eastern district for virginia but indicated he will resign, so that indicates he probably would not fire bob mueller either.