Real civilian casualties. The prison torture coverup, the extent of deadly checkpoint encounters. Reporter wikileaks is believed to have 390,000 documents, which would make this the largest publication of secret material in history. Pentagon Officials Say their biggest concerns con the documents contain the names of iraqis who might be subject to repraisal. There are 300plus iraqi names we thought were considerably exposed here because they were ones who were cooperating with us. Reporter the documents are reports sent it n by american units in the field from 2004 through 2009. Civilian casualties. 100,000, according to one tabulation. Greater than numbers previously made public. Many killed by american troops, but most of them by other iraqis. Secret prisons. Iraqis tortured and abused by other iraqis. Some cases the u. S. Investigated, others were ignored or simply referred to the iraqis. He claims its evidence of war crimes. We can also see from the Iraqi Military and Security Servi
katie couric. couric: good evening, everyone. the government is taking new steps to control the rain- swollen mississippi. for weeks now, flooding along the river has wiped out roads, destroyed homes and forced entire towns to evacuate. today to relieve pressure on levees the u.s. coast guard closed the port at natchez to barge traffic, effectively severing a major shipping artery. and, as national correspondent dean reynolds reports, that could cost the u.s. economy dearly. reporter: in vidalia, louisiana, carla jenkins tug boat business is down 80%. i would say probably $70,000, $80,000 a week which for a small company is a lot of money. reporter: her tug boats are usually out pushing barges on the mississippi now but orders have been shortened because flooded midwestern farmers had less grain to move for exports. now with the decision to close the river to barge traffic for 15 miles from the port of natchez plus a second stoppage near morgan city, things just got w
no work. reporter: the river at natchez is three feet higher than its record but closing the river at any point threatens to back up the conga line of commerce usually plying its waters. experts say a larger closure all the way to new orleans could cost the u.s. economy $300 million a day. but the coast guard said the barge traffic and the wake it stirs up would put too much pressure on the fragile flood walls. on saturday, the army corps of engineers opened the floodgates at a spill ty relieve pressure on the main levee systems. this latest move to stop barge traffic is yet another desperate attempt by authorities to tame the mississippi. so while actual flooding around here may not be so apparent yet, the steps taken to keep that flood from happening are already having an economic impact up and down the mississippi. katie? couric: dean reynolds in baton rouge tonight. dean, thank you. now to the case of dominique strauss-kahn. pressure is building on him to step down
mitchell: good evening, residents of st. louis tonight are sifting through the aftermath of a tornado that took out homes and forced the city s only passenger airport to shut down. in the past 24 hours, violent thunderstorms have raced from oklahoma to indiana but the damage on the airport could have an impact for days. the good news: amazingly, no one was killed. cynthia bowers has the latest. go back inside! reporter: witnesses say it was bedlam. and even though lambert field was under a tornado watch, no one expected the powerful twiter to barrel down a runway and slam into the historic airport. enormous windows shattered, sending blass flying into lambert s main terminal. this surveillance video shows the time of impact with travelers and airport employees diving for cover to avoid flying debris. we got the terminal lights were out, there was glass everywhere, there was blood everywhere from where people had been cut. this is the jet that was pushed sideways fro
out homes and forced the city s only passenger airport to shut down. in the past 24 hours, violent thunderstorms have raced from oklahoma to indiana but the damage on the airport could have an impact for days. the good news: amazingly, no one was killed. cynthia bowers has the latest. go back inside! reporter: witnesses say it was bedlam. and even though lambert field was under a tornado watch, no one expected the powerful twiter to barrel down a runway and slam into the historic airport. enormous windows shattered, sending blass flying into lambert s main terminal. this surveillance video shows the time of impact with travelers and airport employees diving for cover to avoid flying debris. we got the terminal lights were out, there was glass everywhere, there was blood everywhere from where people had been cut. this is the jet that was pushed sideways from gate 12. reporter: three planes filled with passengers road out the scary storm on the tarmac. east of the air