charges. he will likely meet with new imf head christine laguard. strauss-khan is relieved to have his passport back. he is expected to go go [inaudible] just two hours the last 30 patients will begin to be transferred to will walter reed medical center to the bethesda national emergency medical center following this trr. army officials will lower the flag signaling the final closure of the 102-year-old facility which will be shutting down as a cost-saving measure. before the threat of hurricane irene the move had been planned next week. they changed all of that because of this natural disaster. brian: enough about the storm for just a second or for a little while and talk about the g.o.p. it looks as though in florida as we know it s a battleground state. mitt romney has a reason to smile. rick: yeah. a lot of the news this past week was that rick perry had taken over the lead from him as far as the g.o.p. nomination. but, in the state of florida, it appears mitt romney is still t
2,000 people in st. landry parish west of baton rouge are being told to pack it up and get out. right now, four floodgates on the morganza spillway are open. more openings are planned in the days ahead. the head of the international monetary fund is about to be formally charged in new york with attempted rape. police say 62-year-old dominique strauss-khan tried to attack a maid at his luxury manhattan hotel. he is also accused of committing a criminal sexual act and unlawful imprisonment. strauss-khan is expected to enter a not guilty plea during a court appearance today. all around israel s borders today scenes just like this. palestinians facing off and clashing with israeli troops. in the golan heights on the lebanese border in gaza, several people are reported killed, many more hurt. today is the day every year when palestinians angrily protest the creation of israel. and join me for more news at
google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realty is probably a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. generals angrily denounce america for entering the country. a pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in bed with another man s wife who is indignant that someone entered his house. the military has also once again been able to stop the civilian government. according to pakistani sources, the speech g