heritage foundation analyst david john says that trust fund is made up of special treasury bonds which will be redeemed with other federal borrowing. >> they have the full faith and credit of the united states government, so they will be paid. but that's money that has to come out of general revenues that would otherwise go to something like schools or roads or defense or something along that line. yes it will be paid, but there will be a cost in other areas. >> reporter: the most immediate financial challenge for social security is disability insurance. that program covers ten million people and has a separate trust fund that will run out of money in 2018. if congress doesn't act, that would force deep cuts in benefits. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington, d.c. >> tom: oil giant exxon mobil is shutting and emptying some of its oil pipelines in louisiana on increased concerns about the mississippi river flooding. it comes as the army corps of engineers decides sometime this weekend whether to open up part of the mississippi river. if the morganza spillway in louisiana i

the heritage foundation's david john says the price tag is another example of how federal flood insuranceis not priced to reflect the true risk of a loss. >> this program has a monster deficit from hurricane katrina, and it has virtually no chance of repaying that deficit and now it is going to suffer still larger losses-- another quarter, perhaps, as large-- and this is just going to put it further under. >> reporter: the floods come as congress considers yet another round of reforms. the house make take up legislation as soon as next week to raise flood insurance premiums to better reflect the risk of flood damage. the bill would also increase deductibles on some properties. policy limits would also increase to match inflation. national association of realtors economist paul bishop says the changes should make flood insurance more sustainable. >> from one particular year to the next, depending on the types of flooding events and the severity of those, there could be some net loss over a short period of time, but the goal over many years is to make sure there is no cost to taxpayers. >>

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mark david chapman who killed john lennon was once held there, so was david berkowitz, the son of samecent years, little wayne spent time there on a weapons possession charge. strauss-khan is able to leave his jail cell says a prison spokesman and can go outside for an hour a day. it will be escorted by a correction's officer. inside, he's allowed to periodically walk around his housing area corridor where he watches tv. >> everything is difficult. and the most difficult thing i think for any particular person is to deal with the dehumanization because you're just one of 13,000 people. and to deal with being cut off from the outside world. >> reporter: in his first day at rikers, strauss-khan had one visitor. inmates can have three visits per week, up to three people per visit and that is not including attorneys who are given access to their clients on any given day. mary snow, cnn, new york. >>> we want to take you back to ireland now where queen elizabeth is beginning the second day of a visit with a trip to the guinness brewery in dublin. our reporter joins us now from ireland. >>

i mean, if john lewis were here, you know, tonight, he would tell you this is true, that his colleagues didn't know what their potential was. but david documents the fact that two of them became distinguished doctors, one a public health officer in the state of hawaii, another a distinguished harvard psychiatrist, still another the president of a university. john himself became a member of congress, another an educational expert in chicago in cook county. eight or ten of those children went on to lead very distinguished lives and have a powerful influence on this country in ways nobody ever realized. well, it's also a reflection of untapped talent, of wasted talent in this country. because if you'd looked at them that day, they were the most unimportant people in nashville. who would know that john lewis at american baptist theological seminary, maybe the poorest school in all america-- i think it was $40 a year and you could work it off. i mean, you went to american baptist if you couldn't get in to tennessee state or alabama a&m. i mean, it was-- i mean, you would say, "well, on s.a.t.s, we can't take this young man." it's a remind

you have people like bevan dufty, david chiu, even john avalon's common john campos, and ross mirkarimi, all had indicated an interest. so you have people on the board who want to run for mayor. do they go for the caretaker mayor, or do they put those interests aside and best themselves with a politician that has a good chance of being elected? with that dilemma in front of them, we saw what happened. they could not put their egos aside. they generally would with the caretaker mayor. that person would pose no threat of running against them. >> when the board met next week on november 23, the clerk of the board proposed a process for nomination for mayor, which the board debated, amended, and eventually passed. >> a board member read the nominated may not produce pig in the discussion or vote on the competitor nominees. if the nominee of a board member nominee has been withdrawn, the board member may no longer have a conflict and could return to the room and to dissipate. >> basically, a process that i am proposing is one in which, one, would maximize per dissipation. members of the boar

mark david chapman, who killed john lennon, was once held there. so was david burkewitz.inic strauss-kahn is able to leave his jail cell and can go outside for an hour a day. but will be escorted by a corrections officer. inside, he's allowed to periodically walk around his housing area corridor where he can watch tv. >> everything is difficult. and the most difficult thing i think for any particular person is to deal with the dehumanization, because you're just one of 13,000 people, and to deal with being cut off from the outside world. >> in his first day at likers, he had one visitor. inmates can have up to three people per visit, not including attorneys who are given access to their clients any given day. mary snow, cnn, this morning. >>> still ahead, bernie madoff is serving more than 100 years, but his assets are up on the auction block. >>> and don't you hate it when people talk loudly on their cell phones in a restaurant or on a plane? tonight, this story winds up one woman on the "ridicu-list." a 16-hour cell phone conversation. we'll tell you where she was chatt

verdict would be because the german prosecution was asking for six years in prison and his defense of john david was that france was saying that the man was too old and too ill to be in prison and demanded that he was not guilty of the crimes which was he had been accused of course this may sound very little. so this up with a gun specially given the fact that john demjanjuk association with the murder of more than twenty eight thousand jews in the sobibor consideration if poland was to was established so this prison term of five years happens only because john demjanjuk has already spent and eight years in an israeli prison and according to german legislators the usual prison term for the people who used to work in concentration in nazi concentration camps is about fifteen years now our correspondent. met of those who remember the atrocities of the soviet war concentration camp in poland. you only want to the gates of sobibor once there was no return and like an added concentration camps such as alchemists there was no slave labor people were sent immediately to there jeff. we all suspect team

[applause] then not necessarily in alphabetical order, supervisor john avalos, supervisor david campos, supervisor carmen chiu, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, and supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott leonor -- wiener. a number of your friends thought it appropriate to reach out to cover the span of mayors over the last fifth leaders, a small fraternity who you are about to join. leading that is lieutenant governor, who will brain some remarks. it was the man who served as a supervisor and whom the voters rewarded by making him lieutenant governor, and he was received by his colleagues at one minute after 1:00, when his tenure was evicted, and he gave an accounting of himself and the time he has been mayor, and now, welcome to the new mayor, gavin newsom. >> sit down those that have seats. let me welcome each of you for taking the time to be there. it is good to be here, and it is a wonderful occasion, and the people that need to be thanked the most are the people of california, because i would not have been lieutenant governor, a