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about 90% accurate. reporter: nathaniel runs the city s transportation agency and he says te $20 million project entirely federally funded, is about trying to ease congestion. that helps us speed up our transit system, helps us with greenhouse emissions in terms of automobiles circling around. reporter: the app has been downloaded more than 12,000 times but there s real concern about whether or not it s creating another problem, california has a no texting law while behind the wheel, and driving while using the app, surely doesn t seem safe. we do not encourage people and it s not necessary to constantly look down at your device, looking for a parking spot. reporter: still considered a pilot project, the city installed sensors in 7,000 of the city s 24,000 metered parking spaces and 12,000 more in city owned garages. if it works, look for it to expand here and another big cities. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. all right. so right 134 some of the time, ....
Ourselves a parking spot. how well does it work? sometimes perfectly. the app says on this block there should be two spots available. and guess what? there s one of them right there. other times, not so much. still, the city claims its internal testing showed a high level of accuracy. how accurate is it? it s about 90% accurate. reporter: nathaniel ford runs the city s transportation agency. he says the $20 million project entirely federally funded is about trying to ease congestion. that helps us speed up our transit system, helps us with greenhouse emissions in terms of automobiles circling around. reporter: the app has been downloaded more than 12,000 times. but there s real concern about whether or not it s creating another problem. california has a no texting law while behind the wheel. and driving while using the app surely doesn t seem safe. we do not encourage people, and it s not necessary, to constantly look down at your device looking for a parking spot. reporter ....
of l.a. this morning. it was unbelievable to even hear this morning, but yes, according to the los angeles times, quite a bombshell this morning they re breaking a story out of california that the former governor, arnold schwarzenegger, admitted fathering a child with a former member of his household staff and that is why the marriage broke up. schwarzenegger says it happened over a decade ago, but that he only told his wife maria shriver, after he left office earlier this year. that s when shriver moved out of their brentwood mansion. she has not commented. schwarzenegger says he has no excuses for his behavior, he s sorry for the hurt he caused his wife and children. casey wian is live in los angeles this morning. when the couple announced they would be splitting and living separately but didn t say they would be divorced but tongues were wagging, why now. now we have the answer. absolutely. it s hard to believe that schwarzenegger could become even more controv ....
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york ....