is a game for adventurers. and the river doesn t quit. there used to be dirt all the way out to here. all of this is karched away. reporter: howard jones is the fourth of five generations at the j.m. jones lumber company in natchez, mississippi. building up and trying to hold together a levee that keeps his family s business from being swept away. are you confident you can hold the river back? absolutely not, no. i mean i m confident that it s not going to go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i d say it s 50/50. reporter: it s been four weeks since. up to eight feet higher in some places. now they re constantly plugging, bagging and patching what the
river has gouged away. you can tell this is a patch deal. our primary tarps with ripped. reporter: barjs pushing waves upstream that jones says has been doing real damage. pounding away dirt from the leaves. he calls it a batter of attrition because this water is going to stay high for weeks. the coast guard stepped in, slowing boats to a crawl, keeping them to the middle of the channel and spacing them far apart. a small bit of comfort for a family with five generations of success. very humbling. very humbling. and i think about this all the time. that s why we re doing everything we can to fight it. and if we fail, we ll just say, well, we tried. reporter: so far a half million dollar of company cash has gone into the levee. if it fails, the jones lumber company will probably not be able to recover.
from being free. deadly attack in pakistan, the americans are in the firing ryan less than a month after their forces killed osama bin laden. and leave new friends behind. the queen s historic visit to ireland is almost over. we begin this hour in washington where israel s prime minister will meet the u.s. president today for what s expected to be a tense round of talks. benjamin netanyahu arrives less than 24 hours after barack obama deliver add big speech on relations in the middle east. he got a frosty reception in israel. it s an idea the u.s. has supported unofficially for years, but no president has ever before stated it. the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so secure and recognized borders are established for both states. reporter: in return obama called on them to retain its security and recognize it as a jewish state. the 1967 borders were in place before the six-day war in which israel captured th