to shoppers who take savings to the extreme. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell >> mitchell: good evening. tropical storm lee is making this holiday weekend a dangerous washout for residents on the gulf coast. the slow moving storm pounded louisiana and mississippi today, causing flooding, forcing evacuations and knocking out power to thousands. also, the remnants of lee are expected to be felt throughout the east for several days. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ. the bao ou continues to rise, but what may prevent water coming in may be water itself.

these giant pools are full of it and officials hope it will serve as a flood wall. homes were turned into islands and main roadways into waterways in the small coastal town of lafite, with a mandatory evacuation in effect, only high water rescue trucks are are being allowed into the community. for dorothy it was her chance to escape when the waters began seeping into her trailer. you were trapped? >> yeah, we couldn't get out, and trees were falling and everything. it was horrible. >> reporter: lafite has already seen roughly five inches of rain this weekend, but it's the storm surge of water being rushed into the area's bayou that is now flooding the community. >> this is l. a. 45, the road in and out of lafite. >> reporter: he volunteer showed tus closed highway, difficult to -- showed us the closed highway. >> the biggest concern is tidal surge, and the wind, you can see the win coming at us. >> reporter: but in metropolitan new orleans it's very much the rain that's cause for concern. flooding low lying areas on

and off since late friday. >> the message today is that we are not out of the woods. not with standing the fact that the sun was shine going a half an hour ago, it is not now. >> reporter: here massive pumps are working to pull floodwaters from new orleans. >> it takes the water out of the streets, it prevents localized flooding. >> reporter: it one of three main pumping stayss in the city built by the army corps of engineers after hurricane katrina, taking excess rain water from the city's canals and dumping it into near lie lake ponchartrain. but low lying lafi te e falls outside that protection. dorothy sell by's trailer included. >> i hope to go back home and stay, i like it out here, i love it out here. >> reporter: you'll never leave. but today she'll have to. she had some emergency shelter to join others, ball because more rain is expected in some

parts of southern louisiana and mississippi, up to 20 inches. cheflz thank you. >> mitchell: thank you. cbs news hurricane consultant david bernard is in miami tracking tropical storm lee. what's the latest? >> reporter: russ, the tropical storm is moving very slow along the louisiana coastline, it's fairly strong with 60 mile per hour winds. the big story with this, not only this weekend, but next week, is going to be the rainfall, not just on the gulf coast, but all the way across the archlaish ans into the northeast, we could be looking at 4 to 6 inches of rain and that would be in places that saw heavy rain from irene. >> mitchell: let's talk about hurricane katia now in the atlantic. how close is that storm expected to get to the east coast? >> reporter: that's a really good question and it's one we don't have answers for at this time. the latest this afternoon puts the storm at 70 miles per hour, so it's just below hurricane strength, it's moving to the west northwest at 10, and when

we look at the future track going out the next five days, once we get to wednesday and thursday of next week, it's going to be getting closer to the united states east coast, but we're just not sure if it's going to make that turn to the north or continue heading toward the northeast or perhaps southeast new england. >> mitchell: david bernard in miami, thanks a lot. a week after hurricane irene ripped up the east coast, thousands of people remain in the dark. connecticut is the hardest hit state. in all more than 200,000 homes and businesses in nine states remain without power, and after warning people to get off the beach, new jersey governor chris christie is now urging them to come back. the weather along the shore was good today, it was sunny with temperatures in the 80s. overseas now, newly discovered documents in libya suggest the regime of ousted dictator qaddafi had a working relationship with the krai. barry petersen tells us the once secret papers could prove troubling. >> reporter: screen all over the place, the secrets of

libya's spy masters and torturers and how the c.i.a. and british intelligence apparently worked hand in hand from 2003 and 2004 with the man then in charge. then head of libyan intelligence. and later as foreign minister, he was the first high profile defection from qaddafi's regime. the documents, discovered and analyzed by human rights watch. >> this is at the height of bush and rumsfeld's rendition campaign. it's a dark stain on american history. >> reporter: rendition means that u.s. prisoners captured in iraq or afghanistan were sent to third countries where sometimes prisoners being interrogated were subjected to torture. in one case the americans arrange forward this man to be captured in bankok and transfered to libya as a suspected terrorist.

one document apparently from the c. i. s. says we must have assurances from your government that he will be treated humanely and that human rights will be respected. >> it just words on paper. >> reporter: and that did not happen? >> absolutely not. he was tortured, and he was subjected like all of the other prisoners there, so inhumane and abusive treatment. >> reporter: he is now a commander of rebel forces in libya and told reporters he bears no ill will towards the c.i.a.. both british intelligence and the c.i.a. refused to confirm or deny their authenticity. amid the documents, a silly moment, british agents arranging the then prime minister tony blair would meet qaddafi in a tent while visiting tripoli, as the document says -- >> the plain fact is that the journalists will love it. >> reporter: it is worth

noting that while the c.i.a. worked with qaddafi then, it is working with the rebels now. it helped the rebels topple qaddafi's regime and it's believed c.i.a. teams are still here on the ground, as the civil war goes on. russ? >> mitchell: barry petersen, in tripoli, thanks. president obama said today that failure to pass a highway construction bill could be disastrous for the economy and could cost almost a million jobs. he urged congress in his weekly media address to approve the bill before highway programs and fuel taxes that pay for them expire at the end of this month. the jobless numbers that came out yesterday were hardly encouraging. the government said the unemployment rate in august was stuck in 9.1%, with as many jobs lost as created. and here's some more bad news. the number in a category the government calls mass layoffs has jumped by 3%. by definition mass layoffs are when employers let go a 50 or more people at one time. ben tracey takes a look at the

numbers and the people who are now looking for work. >> reporter: when borders closed all of out book stores this summer, more than 10,000 people suddenly found themselves out of a job. >> we all just walked around in a daze, we didn't know what to dochl. >> reporter: stacy used to supervise the inconvenient ter at a borders in san diego. when the store shut down, so did her family's finances. stacy is married with two young sons including 10-year-old jacob. money has always been tight. and without her income, her husband's paycheck is not enough to pay all the bills. >> we're dipping into savings in order to put food on the table, pay rent. >> reporter: it's been a summer storm of pink slips, along with borders, bank of america, cisco, lockheed martin and goldman sachs have all recently announced mass layoffs. in fact, the latest numbers show mass l have jumped 3% this summer, with 145,000 people losing their jobs. however, in the past three years the number of mass

layoffs has actually declined. good news, but economists say the numbers aren't falling fast enough. >> they really need to be coming down much more rapidly to make a real dent in unemployment. >> reporter: the numbernot fall fast enough for robert, he spent four years working for novell, one of utah's most prominent businesses. they laid off more than 800 people in may, sending shock waves through the stay. >> my boss called me into the office and told me you're one of the people that's to be laid off. >> reporter: he says he's lucky, he's getting severance pay. now he spends his days looking for work and working on his swing. at just 7.5%, utah's unemployment rate is lower than the national average. so robert is confident he'll find a new job. >> i think things are going to turn around. i'm optimistic that things are going to get better. >> reporter: but back in san diego where california's unemployment rate is second in the nation at a whopping 12%, stacy's search for a new job

is much harder. >> how can the economy support all those people looking for jobs. it makes me feel like i have a lot more competition. >> reporter: a competition she can't afford to lose. ben tracey, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: later, 10 years after 9/11 and online memorial celebrates the lives of loved ones lost. americans trying to save money take coupon cliping to the extreme. and sarah palin grabs the g.o.p. spotlight again, but is she running? those stories when the cbs evening news continues. the world's best yogurtsm for activia selects in paris we discovered the inspiration for a totally new yogurt. activia selects french so silky and smooth with lots of juicy fruit. then our search took us to beautiful greece and this thick and creamy greek yogurt, so rich and full of flavor. it was a grueling trip! try new activia french and greek yogurt.

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>> i'd rather use this one. >> mitchell: a bond trader who died working inside the world trade center on september 11. she's having personal photos scanned for the 9/11 living memorial project. a memorial that lives online. >> to have the eulogys and people describing him, to be able to put that all in one place and to have the pictures, i think it's great for the kids. >> mitchell: two of their three kids were so young when joe died, they have few memories of their father. that funny guy who could imitate almost anyone. >> he was a great dad. he worked a lot of hours during the week, but when he was home he was home. you were the only person in the room. >> mitchell: the living memorial was launched by mary fetchet, a social worker who founded the group, voices of september 11. >> i think it's a healing process, it's an emotional process. but it's also a historical record of the lives that were lost that day.

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savings that are good for some, represent survival to others. jamie richardson regularly rifles trash bins for newspaper coupons. she's unable to work. what others discard allows her to stock her pantry. >> if you're not saving a buck with the economy the way that it is, if you're not saving a buck, i'm going to be saving it. >> reporter: extreme couponing has even sparked the occasional crime, cybil hudson was arrested in denton, texas for stealing coupons from sunday newspapers in sidewalk boxes. she admitted she's done it before. >> i'm a single mom, do i this to save money. >> reporter: jamie bicknell is not surprised. >> people are going coupon crazy. >> reporter: take it from a woman mad about shopping. >> mitchell: that is the cbs evening news. later on cbs, "48 hours" mystery. thank you for joining us. i'm russ mitchell at the cbs

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