malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan and the region. we will do our part. and we look to the government of pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. a cia forensics team will also be heading to pakistan. pakistan will let cia experts scrub osama bin laden s compound for evidence. now, the team will use sophisticated technology to look for anything hidden in the walls or the ceilings or items that are buried on the grounds. the patriot act gets a four-year extension. this was just minutes before that law was set to expire.
flood walls. those walls could fail. the city s mayor talked about his concerns with our ed lavandera. are you worried about it flooding? this is the heart of the city right here. it is the heart of the city, primarily protected by that wall right there. it would take a failure of that wall before this would be at risk. what we re really concerned about is that high river stage raising the water level back where the lake is, and if that got topped, because that level of protection is not nearly as high as that, if that got topped, the water is going to flow throughout the city. it won t be held within a particular compartment of the city. we re an island, the river on one side and both our eastern boundaries and south even boundaries is the river, the northern and western boundaries is the lake. this water threat surrounds you? absolutely. it s starting to lap up under the planks of the wharf. so the water is just now getting here. it will be water all the way. it w