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plea today. this is the case she s accused of stealing a $2500 necklace from a los angeles jewelry store. officials say that plea deal will likely mean a short jail sentence or home confinement. lohan will not be attending the hearing in an effort to save the court from having to pay for extra security to handle the media mob scene at her courthouse arrival. a rough spring for memphis, rough last few days for memphis, the mississippi river going over its banks. one high school in the city is celebrating right now. booker t. washington high beat out thousands of other schools to win the 2011 race to the top challenge. that means president obama will head to the school next week to deliver the commencement address. and the vice president called the school to deliver the good news. at first he had made it sound like we had lost or something and then when he said we won, i screamed so loud that i think everybody in the entire office heard us all. people were crying. people fell. it was
water. engineers trying to manage and contain the water with a system of levees and flood gates that were in some cases created after the last big one back in 1927. but is the answer really to just set the river free? joining us now is andrew, a senior vice president for conservation for the american rivers movement. what are our choices here? we re looking at a system, andrew, welcome to the program, that s really been tested since its creation, its whole creation back in the 20s. are we learning we should have other lines of defense that aren t blowing up levees or opening flood gates? are there other things we can do? well, i think there are a lot of other things we can do. we have basically got 40% of the nation s land mass kind of funneling down into this very narrow area, and we ve basically built up to the edge and farmed up to the edge of our rivers and streams, giving them very little room to move. we ve paved over and farmed over millions of acres of wetlands