residents are staying in shelters. hundreds of others staying with nearby family and friends. the mississippi river at this location is expected to crest overnight. even so, forecasters say it could take up to three week for all the floodwaters to completely recede. jonathan serrie live in memphis tonight. thank you. arizona governor jan brewer wants the supreme court to overturn a ruling to put part of her state immigration law on hold. brewer has lost attempts to appeal a lower court ruling preventing key provisions of the law from going in effect. navy chaplains will be allowed to officiate same-sex marriage and civil union severals on base once the military ban on gays openly serving is lifted. a memo dated last month spells out condition for approval. spokeswoman tells the navy times no chaplain will be required to officiate the ceremony if it conflicts with the chaplain s faith. transportation secretary ray lahood today announced
the obama administration. a federal judge issued an unjunction that blocks arizona from implementing key provisions of its new state immigration law. the ruling did nothing to quiet the emotional political debate. quite to the contrary. the law s conservative supporters vow to fight on in the courts. and they promise this issue will be front and center in this november s major campaigns. here in arizona and elsewhere. in the hour ahead, we ll dig deep on what the ruling says, what it doesn t say, and what happens next in this important legal fight. and we ll look at the heated political reaction across arizona and across the country. arizo arizona s attorney general terry goddard is truly a man caught in the middle of this debate. his office would be charged with enforcing the new law. goddard personally opposes it. he s seeking the democratic nomination for governor. if successful, would like lay face immigration law supporter, the republican governor, jan brewer, come november. also
brian: about 10% of those incart rated are here illegally? that you have arrested? i m saying that out of 350,000, 35,000 are here illegally for murder and every other type of crime. and nobody is arguing against your responsibility to enforce the laws. what we re arguing against is a state immigration law. we can t afford to have 50 state graduation immigration law. we re arguing against a immigration law that causes profoiling and interviews with the rights of u.s. and arizona citizens such as the 25% that were here illegally when you conducted those raids. why are you concerned? i ve been the poster boy for three years enforcing other
it is about safety. the district assistant superintendent says, quote we cannot commit at this time to playing at a venue where some of our students safety or liberty might be placed at risk because of state immigration law. what are you doing later? i m going to eat you. strange lady. but one parent who is distishd by the reasoning says, disturbed by the reasoning says i m disturbed. and what is more disturbing is giant rats invading this beach. those are weird rats. they have pockets for their car keys. amy, isn t it better to ban girls from playing sports altogether? that s a good point. maybe not all sports. but definitely high school. high school basketball just
15 minutes. he remembers everything and he is still serving his country. nancy pelosi starts her weekly meeting with reporters with a four-letter word, more than once. and arlen specter is in trouble in his primary campaign. he says he has a scoreboard for political survival. arizona is just one of 50 states but it is driving a good deal of our national political debate and stirring passions. first, it was the new state immigration law, which allows police if they believe they have reasonable cause to ask someone to prove they are in the united states legally. now, a ban on teaching ethnic studies is making waves. those who back the ban suggest the classes promote a radical agenda and cast the united states as oppressive. supporters call that nonsense and say these classes give latinos and others a place to learn more about their heritage. period. culture wars make for dicey politics and arizona s actions