computing. that is what is driving that growth. those three categories. but it s really for the highly skilled workers here. 40% of the open positions in silicon valley, about 130,000 open positions are for software engineers. randi? thank you very much, dan simon, with a very interesting story. thank you. time right now, 24 minutes past the hour and it s time to update our top stories. more details emerging since california governor arnold schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a household staffer. the new york sometimes reports that the child is a boy. he s about 14 years old. the paper also says that the mother was working in the home while she was pregnant at the same time schwarzenegger s wife, maria shriver, was pregnant with the couple s youngest child. the mississippi river is heading for an historic crest. it s expected to peak at least a foot above the 1927 record and in louisiana the governor expects the record flood levels to last more than a month. a sna
mississippi. we continue to deal with flood warnings. we re going to be dealing with this for about the next month. we re seeing anywhere in green and that extends all the way down towards new orleans. we re still waiting for many areas to crest and that includes greenville. vicksburg expected at 17.5 meters. we re talking record flooding across parts of the south. we re talking louisiana as well as mississippi. and then for new orleans, looking pretty good. they opened up that morganza spillway. that happened over the weekend. by opening that up, that actually released and displaced many wild animals. and we re also talking about snakes. yes, the venomous snakes, copper heads, cotton mouth. in fact, we do have an advisory in place. we re talking snake advisory in place for parts of louisiana f you re walking around that wear the, really this is very dangerous. we re talking about wildlife all over the place. black bears, alligators, snakes,
assaulting a hotel house maid. she can t go back to work. she has no idea what her future is going to be in any respect. so aside from what took place in the hotel room, the trauma what has taken place in her life is extraordinary. the mississippi river is heading for historic crest at vicksberg over the next 24 hours. it is expected to peak a foot above the 1927 record across mississippi and louisiana. and 9,000 people have had to abandon their homes already. but this man plans to to stay put. do you have a plan b y i mean, if for some reason, the levees broke, what would you do? hook my gps up and leave out on the levee, that s it. well, it s very peaceful. yeah, very quiet. that s why i m getting a vacation right now, really. syrian newspaper reports the country s president admits that security forces have made mistakes in response to anti-government demonstrations. bashir al assad did not specify what those mistakes were, but the president is facing internati
as many as 850 people. we will have much more on this in 20 minutes from our senior white house correspondent ed henry. now, i want to show you an x ray like none you have never seen before. take a good look at this. these are people crammed into a tractor-trailer in mexico. they shouldn t have been in the trailer nor in mexico, nor in the united states. where this rig and another like it were allegedly headed. they were stopped yesterday in the southern state of chiapas. 530 migrants who authorities paid $7,000 each to make a journey that is not just illegal but dangerous. in the words of national migration institute, inhuman. and where were they coming from? this, too, will surprise you as well. they came not just from central america but china, nep pal, india, and japan. rafael romo is joining me live from atlanta. first off, rafael, japan? we re not used to hearing about illegal immigrants from asia. reporter: that s right, randi. it used to be that you would find peo
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.