negotiations back home. although immigration and border security will consume much of the conversation, the trip is intended to focus on economic relations and trade between the u.s. and southern neighbor. security concerns in the fight against drug trafficking are also high on the to do list. mr. obama is hitting the ground running spending the afternoon at his first extended meetings with the mexican president who just assumed office five months ago. this is a short stop in mexico for mr. obama. later today he heads to costa rica. mary bruce, abc news, traveling with the president in mexico city. one aspect of immigration reform issue that is not widely known is increasing number of undocumented immigrants leaving the u.s. and returning to mexico. abc s jim avila explains why. reporter: footsteps echo through a nearly empty northern mexico village. expensive homes bolted shut. block after block of shuttered doors, their absentee owners working hundreds of miles away. where is eve
called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin laden s death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a witness to robert kennedy s assassination says there was a second gunman. nina says her claim was overlooked back in 1968 and that someone altered the testimony she gave. but she remembers it vividly. i can hear the rhythm of the gunshots in my head, and i know first i thought it was flash bulbs. it was pop, pop and then pop, pop, pop, very rapid fire to my right in back of senator kennedy. convicted assassin sirhan sirhan is asking a court to release him from prison or give him a new tria
some cities but will it be enough to stop the surging mississippi. i m ali velshi. you and i are not allowed to see them, but the obama administration is inviting a select few to look at the photos of bin laden dead. we ll let you know who s on the list. i m christine romans. newt gingrich is in but can he win. the former house speaker and republican powerhouse of the 1990s about to announce he s running for president on this american morning. and welcome, so glad you re with us on this wednesday morning. it is may 11th. a lot going on today. we re following the latest on the floods. a new decision some members of congress and others will get a private viewing of some of the pictures of osama bin laden after he was killed. first start with the flooding because this is a problem that is just raging down the nation s midsection. the mississippi river right now, people are working hundreds of miles ahead of where the river crested near a record high