>> pray. >> perhaps silbert early. >> happy birthday-celebrate --jeanne moss, n.y..e has been spreading his message to his family radio and at work. with the deadline approaching. to recess the show is going to talk to the minister and here is what she foun to reset >> i got a interview however, when i try to contact the front desk to get an interview with mr. camping the receptionist who refused to answer and pulled down the blinds. when i called earlier i was told that he was busy preparing for the end of the world. when i ask for details of it would not elaborate. when i was attempting to talk to somebody a piece of delivery crew showed up. yet, nobody would come to the front door. instructed the delivery people to go to the back of the building. as they went inside a camera operator spoke with me. he said that nobody was around to speak with me about the predictions of camp. as a prediction, and the state draws near is and sparking a controversy within. >> i noticed a lot more people are getting crazy around here. they are getting more afraid. they think that a l

on the way, jeanne? >> reporter: yeah, and we had some this morning. you could just watch the water flowing into this river. you couldn't help but think, gosh, is this situation going to get work? people are hoping this is as high as the river's going to get. it's busted all records. it's never been this high before. and by and large, this is a city that's been spared because a lot of it is at very high elevation, on a bluff above where i am now. a few historic buildings here and rir -- riverboat gambling, that's been shut down because the access road to that boat has been flooded out. natchez is a city that's famous for its sightseeing. it has a lot of antebellum mansions. the people here have never seen anything like this. you can see one gentleman over there taking a look. some people here taking pictures. others have come down to take the scene. the best vantage point, this lady who lives above the saloon, she's been taking pictures. generally this city's done pretty well. but it's a tragic situation

. >> is that true, jeanne? >> tax cuts help the economy? democrats and republicans both have a point. if you raise taxes too much, you can hurt economic growth. and vice versa. will is right because we don't have the public trust that the tax dollars will be used well. and if our taxes are increases, that that's what it will be used for. that's a hard intangible both parties will have to work toward. >> this is going to be a much easier conversation when we have specifics to deal with. what exactly do you want to go up in taxes and what exactly are you prepared to cut? i think we all agree, this is a much better conversations to have on specifics than in theory. jeanne, roland, stay where you are. will, stay where you are. it's a basic concept. your tax dollars are simply not enough to sustain your government. so i'm going to show you exactly where your money goes and why washington does need a whole lot more of it up next. [ female announcer ] investing for yourself isn't some optional pursuit. a privilege for the ultra-wealthy. it's a nec

jeanne meserve has been on the river for us this weekend. jeanne, good morning to you.what they're dealing with. >> reporter: well, they're dealing with some very high water and some very strong currents. we spent some time out on the water from the folks who run this dock and storage company yet. they have tubboats. they went down yesterday to link one a barge and tow boat that needed some help on this part of the river. the current is just so darn strong that they're really having trouble making headway, particularly past the bridge which spans the river between vidalia and natchez, mississippi. yesterday we had this tug and a tow boat boat pushing between them, they had about 3,600 horsepower pushing and they still had trouble getting a single chemical barge over a speed of about 1 miles per hour. that's just how strong the current is. they haven't seen anything like it here ever before, according to the people who work on the river. as for the system as a whole, the levee system appears to be holding up. there have been some sand boils but they've been able to cope

. >> reporter: some of the water will end up in jeanne garlock's home near the memphis marina. she and her husband moved out two days ago and the water has already moved in beneath the living room floor. >> the water now would be directly underneath us. i mean if we want to cut a hole in our living room floor, we could be fishing right now. >> reporter: jeanne garlock told me her home was not in a flood- plain and she has no flood insurance. chances are when this flood is over map makers will be redrawing flood-plain boundaries up and down the mississippi river. russ. >> mitchell: randall pinkston in memphis, thank you. there has been extensive flooding this spring. we now wonder what lead to these record levels of water. >> this looks like a once in a century type of event. >> mitchell: mike smith a meteorologist says its record rainfall and melting snow, but most of all, it's timing. >> by themselves, the snowfall wouldn't have caused that much problem and the rainfall wouldn't have caused that much of a problem. but they arrived in the same place at the same time. >> mitchel

here's cnn's jeanne moos.e been the toast of the town, but when it came to toasting the queen. >> i propose a toast. >> reporter: maybe he should have stuck to toast. but instead, the president popped up and unwittingly cued the orchestra when he said the magic words. >> to her majesty, the queen. to the vitality of the special relationship between our peoples. >> god save the queen. it's a national anthem. you shut up. >> reporter: but the president soldiered on. >> and in the words of shakespeare, to this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this england, to the queen. >> reporter: but the queen wasn't toasting during a national anthem. the president ditched his lonely upraised glass. >> but barack figured it out, he was like, okay, i'll put the glass down. >> reporter: when it ended the toast was consummated by the queen. >> to the queen. >> reporter: so who messed up? was it the president or was it the musicians? on blogs, the president was called a bumpkin, a doof is, while defends said why blame obama?

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jeanne meserve is there for us in mississippi. jeanne, no doubt, last thing they need. >> that's absolutely right. right now sunshine. just gorgeous, but they are expecting more rain here and they had hope that this river got just about as high as it was going to get. it hit more than 61 feet here well above flood stage. well above any previous records. this city natchez has been relatively unaffected. they have built some levees and little flooding of the streets. most of this city is up on a bluff. it is protected from the rising waters. not so the rest of the valley, of course. yesterday we had a chance to take an overflight and see what things look like from the air or what you saw was water, water everywhere. a lot of submerged farmland, forests, obviously, homes and businesses also seriously affected. here in natchez one of the places affected is the coast guard station. they commented to see what the situation was on the mississippi. he paid a visit and some men had to walk through the water in their waders to come over and

jeanne meserve is right on the river for us this morning. jeanne, good morning once again.out saving your livelihood as well. >> reporter: that's right. you have to worry about your business and the full cost of business and to farmers has yet to be calculated, t.j. the good news for this story is that the levee system appears to be holding. there have been minor problems, sand boils keep cropping up but thus far able to control them, there have been no major problems. the second piece of good news is that although the water is still rising in some places, in other places it is dropping, not a great deal yet, but it is going down somewhat. the estimates, as you mentioned it won't go back to normal until mid-june because there is so much water in the mississippi and in its tributaries, it still has to drain out of this system. now, it means that thousands and thousands of people are still out of their homes, and the full cost of this flooding has yet to be calculated. of course, as you mentioned, a lot of people make their living on the water, we went out yesterday in a tugb

>> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> in a hard hat!would be wrong and i'd spend all this money and have this night of debauchery and it would be sunday and the world's still here. >> you know, after y2k and everything turned out fine, i stopped getting nervous about it. >> i hear you. >> maybe it's a bad bet. we'll never know. >>> coming up, new details on the arnold schwarzenegger situation that we've been following. "time" magazine has got some interesting questions they're posing. i'm sure you're posing those questions. why do powerful men act like pigs? the executive editor is here to talk about it. >>> making child meds easier to understand. it could matter the next time your kid wakes up with a fever. how we're dosing our children. what do you got? restrained driver... sir, can you hear me? just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray, please! [ nurse ] i'm a nurse. i believe in the power of science and medicine. but i'm also human. and i believe in stacking the deck. the 3.6-liter pentastar v6 engine in the jeep grand cherokee ha

cnn's jeanne meserve shows us the intelligence and law enforcement communities are on heightened alertictims the parents of chris romeo celebrated bin laden's death with champagne. >> he's gone. >> reporter: throughout government the celebration is tempered by concerns at what al qaeda, its affiliates or sympathizers might do next. >> it may be a mortally wounded tiger that still has some life in it and it's dangerous, and we need to keep up the pressure. we cannot relent because there are individuals in that organization that are determined to try to carry out attacks and murder innocent men, women, and children. >> reporter: there is no specific, credible information about a possible counterpunch, so the department of homeland security has not raised the threat level. but security in some places was ramped up anyway. in new york, for instance, where bin laden struck his deadliest blow. >> there are no specific threats against new york city as of this moment, but we certainly are not taking any chances. our assumption is that bin laden's disciples would like nothing better than to ave

jeanne moos shows us some memorable ones. [ technician ] are you busy?ement just sent over these new technical manuals. they need you to translate them into portuguese. by tomorrow. [ male announcer ] ducati knows it's better for xerox to manage their global publications. so they can focus on building amazing bikes. with xerox, you're ready for real business. >>> breaking news here that we're following. the president was traveling to connecticut when air force one actually missed its approach. i want to go to our white house correspondent dan loathian. he's in new london, connecticut. he was traveling ahead of the president. he wasn't on air force one but he does have information about what happened with the president's plane. dan, if you can explain for us, go ahead. >> reporter: well, suzanne, both the white house and the faa confirmed that as air force one was arriving here in connecticut this morning, that the pilot executed a missed approach. essentially, the weather was bad, according to the faa. and i'll tell you, we were seeing rain on and off he

our cnn homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve has the latest from washington. are actually getting new information from the attorney general, eric holder. >> from the attorney general, and also secretary napolitano, both of them still appearing on the hill at this hour. napolitano says that her department is already getting intelligence that has been gathered from the materials, the computers, hard drives and storage devices that were seized during the raid on osama bin laden. already getting that information, she says. and the attorney general, eric holder, was asked what his department is going to do about the people whose names are found in that material. here's a bit of what he had to say. >> the material that was seized from that residence is being reviewed by interagency team, cia, justice, other intelligence agencies, other law enforcement agencies are all contributing people and machines to go through that material. as we glean information from that material, we will make appropriate decisions with regard to who might be added to the terrorist watch lis

jeanne meserve, cnn, va dahlia, louisiana. >>> let's check in with jacqui jeras. it is hard to believe we're talking mid-june, so many weeks away before a lot of this water goes anywhere like out of there. >> takes a long time for the river to get back within its banks and for the water to run off too. this has been setting up for a very long time. unfortunately, there's more rain in the forecast and some of these thunderstorms today, are going to be severe and we're talking about a large area of the country from minnesota down towards texas. we already have some watches which are in place here and this is going to be the region that we're focusing on today. look at that. we popped up a brand new severe thunderstorm watch. gaerping to start out where the tornado watches are in effect and that includes you in minneapolis, st. paul, you across eastern iowa, including the quad cities and expecting things to begin developing in this area very shortly. very moist, very unstable conditions here and we're expecting super cell type thunderstorms that do produce tornadoes.

jeanne moos looks at exactly what is supposed to happen. >> i hate to be judgmental, but when you keephis saturday, the end of the world is almost here, it doesn't improve the daily commute. here's what's supposed to happen around 6:00 p.m. eastern time saturday. >> the largest earthquake the world has ever seen. buildings will collapse. it's going to be awful. >> like a disaster movie 2012" arriving early. earthquakes worldwide. believers will experience rapture, heavenly ascent, while nonbelievers will stay for a few hellish months and until the fiery end of time. >> 97% of the people, god will destroy. >> i don't believe in such [ bleep ]. >> the generally low key and polite folks who believe this need tough skin as they hand out their leaflets. >> yeah, right. >> it's all over. it's all over. >> see you this time next year. >> you're convinced, you're absolutely convinced. >> yes, because the bible guarantees it. >> the bible as interpreted by this california preacher, harold camping, head of family radio, lately he's been getting some flack. >> my bible warns about false teachers

jeanne's celebrating a birthday early!ew that today -- that the world was ending tomorrow. carol? >> it had to be the "talk back" question today. >> absolutely. i'm throwing a party. you're invited. >> really? >> yeah. tonight. >> the last doom's day party. and it will be a blast. the "talk back" question. what would you do if today -- what would you do today if the world ended tomorrow? this from matthew -- i would apologize where needed, ask forgiveness where needed, let go of the past, forgive and forget where needed, remind those that matter to me how much love i have for them, and lastly, a few delicious frozen cocktails. this from melissa -- i don't think i'd do much different. i'd live my life the way i do every day simply because no man knows the time nor day. this from robert -- see the new "pirates" movie before they sell out. this from michael -- i'd play golf as i usually do from fridays but i'd triple the bets and pay them off with ious. this from angel -- i would sit on facebook all day and comment on carol c

jeanne meserve is here and has the details. what about this auction? what do we know?apted against technology but today technology, internet, is being used to auction off his belongings. some say it is for a good cause. others say it is in bad taste. the hallmarks of the man known as the unabom you don't knber. writings, i did blome -- diplom books. three people were killed, 23 injured in a string of bombings between 1978 and 1995. this 35,000 word anti-technology manifesto now for sale cracked the case. when it was published in 1995, a man stepped forward to identify his brother as the unabomber. ted kaczinsky, brilliant mathematician, had been living a hermit's life in a cab nin the montana woods. the man that headed the task force investigating the bombings remembers combing through the cabin for evidence. >> we had to stop this search on the third day because we found a live bomb under his bed ready to mail. >> reporter: up for auction, the bow and arrow he used to hunt for food. the tools he used to fashion bombs from auto parts and scraps of wood. thousands of pa

jeanne meserve with us. i know you have new information on the al qaeda plans and tell me how far along was the plan and what did it involve? >> well, first, discussing the rail plot specifically, we are told that the information about this came from a hand-written document and the u.s. official says that there is reason to believe that the information from the writings of osama bin laden, himself. as to how far along this was, officials say no indication that anything was imminent or anything had been put into motion, but something that was aspirational and what it involved as we told you had to do with putting objects on tracks causing derailments, and it mentioned doing it on bridges and over valleys presumably to maximize the casualty, and as for the timing, it purportedly was to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this september, brooke. >> and specific, jeanne, as far as cities? >> well, i am told there are no specific cities or areas that were mentioned in the rail intelligence spe

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jeanne meserve is on the river bank there. one part they're dealing with. looks nice right there. they're dealing with those flood waters, but now we're talking about rain coming into your area. >> yeah, nobody is looking forward to that, at all. speaking of the levees. a makeshift one built right behind me by homeowners here, by business owners to try to protect these historic properties. you go around the bend and there is about 11 feet of water covering the road and the casino in that river bank has been shut down for business because of the high waters. the water here now at about 61.8 feet. that's way above previous records here. but this city because so much of it is at a high elevation is largely protected. across the river, is louisiana. you can't see it well right now because there is a barge going up the river and series of barges, but some properties on the river side of the levee that are dealing with some water issues. they have had some levee issues there. they have had to do some maintenance on them, but, so far, things are holding. if you lo

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks jeanne. join us weekdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern, every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. >>> i'm don lemon. so glad you could join us. we are following breaking news here right now on cnn. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years, the morganza spillway was opened just hours ago to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. the huge spillway was built just for this purpose. look at that water gushing out of there. it is a pressure valve for the flooding river to protect baton rouge and new orleans, the two biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there's no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps

that's why i want to bring in jeanne. there is a heightened precaution at various u.s. installations. what are you learning? >> well, an affiliate at the white house, officials there are acknowledging that there is a possibility, they say there is no specific threat information at this point in time but they are taking every reasonable precaution domestically as well as internationally. we know that in new york, for example, the new york police city commissioner sent out a message to all commands asking them to be on alert. we know that in philadelphia the police are stepping up patrols around mosques and synagogues, checking them on an hourly basis. we have not heard anything yet from the department of homeland security but a former dhs official tells me that they have had plans on the shelf for some time that they could pull off in the event of bin laden's death that would involve heightened protection around transportation hubs and the like. this official stresses that this is not about protective measures, that there is going to be a big step up in intelligence and

jeanne meserve, thank you.ow, watch this. >> our focus still has to be a government in afghanistan dotha does not host al qaeda and carry on. >> and it does not have a strategy that justifies 100,000 troops and $100 billion/year cost. >> those are just some, some of the views on capitol hill. so what do you think? should the u.s. maintain its presence in afghanistan now that osama bin laden is dead? we will tackle that topic next with retired army brigadier general. we're coming for what's ours. maybe you didn't hear. but dimes, nickels, even pennies have power now. because the volt charges for about a buck fifty a day. making most commutes gas-free for just a handful of change. so we're taking it back. all of it. we have some driving to do. the 2011 chevrolet volt. it's more car than electric. >>> the white house suggesting that if the u.s. had released the pictures of osama bin laden, it could inflame terrorists and hurt american troops overseas. i want to bring in retired army brigadier general armet kimmett

jeanne?e mississippi isn't just being fought on the river bags? it's being fought here in this army corps of engineers operation center. one key part of the battle, a daily teleconference in this situation room. >> when we start to get down to vicksburg and natchez and baton rouge, you'll see that we again go up against the record crests. >> reporter: this is a war room. the enemy is the water. the weapons are reservoirs and levees and floodways. armed with maps and graphs and weather forecasts, the army corps of engineers is plotting its strategy via teleconference. >> we have three locks currently closed. >> reporter: what this allows all of us in the u.s. army corps of engineers to do is to gain good situational awareness over what is happening with the system currently and in the near future. >> reporter: and the system is huge. >> it's the third largest watershed on the earth. and that is true. it drains 34 states and has many, many tributaries that feed into it. >> reporter: the floodwa

>> jeanne meserve reporting live from washington. >>> it is going to cost you a fortune to fill up the tank today but gas prices are actually down this morning. we have not been able to say that for more than 40 days. $3.98 a gallon nationwide. you can barely see the drop but this could signal a bigger drop ahead. at least we hope so. ali velshi is with us now. remember, there was talk of $5 a gallon gas. now, we are hearing prices could be down to $3.50 by memorial day. what's up with that? >> nobody's speculation is ever right about this stuff. the bottom line is with he broke a trend after 44 days of increases. we finally stopped. i'm glad we did. it wouldn't make sense to keep going given what's happened to oil prices. we lost about $9 in oil yesterday. we lost another $3 and change this morning. oil prices have been plummeting along with other commodities, because the dollar is starting to strengthen, which is the argument i have been making for a long time. it has a whole lot less to do with demand and supply than speculation and oil and commodities have been a better investment

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sixty six years of victory on our jeanne. a cluster mission. and inside the container you have a small bomb and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of there's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. which you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance they'll let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of. a.

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our jeanne. this is news coming up next. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program greece has become even less creditworthy it stands and falls cut the country's long term rating by two levels to single beat the decision came after european finance ministers agreed athens needed more help to avoid it at risk truck trying the country's debt is rising as the nation faces record boring costs a year after receiving a one hundred ten billion euro bailout package another cut would make a. europe with greece already in line with belarus. and last week was something of a bloodbath which suffered because so all for two years this in the world which lost eight percent on thursday before staging a slightly recovery and later on just going from energy information company plants tells us what's blinkered down. it's a combination of factors really i mean we've got some weak. economic data that's come out of the u.s. and germany this week in asia some of the emerging economies there will be raising interest rates an attempt to

jeanne, her family must be desperate to find her? >> >> reporter: jessica, hundreds of people showed up here mere the golden gate bridge to check in at the command search to help search for allison. some had experience. most were volunteers and most of them don't know her but wanted to help find her alive. allison's bicycle sits in the shadow of the golden gate bridge where her family believes she left it monday night, kevin and the 15 year old's father found it after searching for allison all night. >> we found her bike at 4:30 and called in police and that kind of the search is expanded from there. >> reporter: it was information found on allison's computer at home in danville, that led her family to san francisco. they belief she took b.a.r.t. and then rode over bike to the bridge parking lot where they worry she was planning to harm herself. she was last seen by classmates at san ramon high on monday morning. >> she and my daughter are good friends. we lake to talk about books sometimes when we get together. >> reporter: she says

jeanne ellie joins us with more. >> reporter: police are sorting through two van loads of stolen items, hoping to get those items back to their rightful owners. in the meantime, people living in the oakland hills are stunned. a convicted criminal just moved into an empty house. >> if makes you nervous, because you're driving home and there's five squad cars here. >> oakland police say squatters moved into a vacant home just a few doors down from his in the upscale oakland hills neighborhood and filled it with stolen property. the view is littered with all kinds of stuff. >> i didn't notice a thing. >> lee moved into the foreclosure with a pregnant woman and a child. neighbors say they showed up one day in april with a truckload of stuff, they thought a new family was moving in. a remax real estate agent says she was checking on the property once a week. before crego moved in it was empty and clean. when she stopped by on april 29th, he and his family looked settled in. >> it's surprising, it's a nice sleepy neighborhood, you don't expect that. >> reporter: they found two van loads of s

of the world's most exotic tourist destinations i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on our jeanne explore why some people are willing to pay big bucks to make it down here. siberian capsules motherhood knows no bounds find out why her new cover just loves of walking are all that's on our t.v. shortly. now the operator of japan's a crisis here focusing right nuclear plant has made a record the loss of fifteen billion dollars was the country's the biggest ever corporate loss which forced the firm's director to quit let's discuss it with philip white former spokesperson for the citizens nuclear information center which is a science based group that campaigns for a nuclear free world thank you for joining us mr white now the head of tepco took responsibility for the disaster at the plant and while he resigned well this is a catastrophe that happened it's more than just one man's doing that was it yes of course the whole nature of. situation. is a company which of which he's just. he has he's rolled. his wrists resignation is the story. having said that yes they have been heavily criti

and this is the kitty of the city jeanne jones wkysf.nd this is my colleague for fox 5 and this is kenny martin. thanks for being with us. kenny, we like you so much we wanted you to come back. >> and i'm getting a chill vibe. i'm going to take the sport jacket off and do you have a jacket? >> this is short notice. >> it works for you, kenny. and last night it was old songs and so each five of them got to do two songs. we'll feature one song from each and this is james. he's doing without you. he got very emotional. check it out. [ singing ] >> now jack, they gave him credit for holding it together because he was in full tears at a point. i believe this is a single competition, these kids are amateurs and i didn't agree with them giving him a pass. what did you think? >> that's an interesting point. i agree with you in principal because it was not a great vocal performance but it was emotional. and we're looking for someone that we believe what they sing and they are covering songs here. this is not an original song for him but a brillia

jeanne meserve, cnn, port gibson, mississippi. >>> you're in the "situation room." happening now.rals and dozens of troops defect. south africa's leader shows up in libya on a peace mission. nato's chief says gadhafi's rein of terror is coming to an end. >>> she started on a motorcycle. sarah palin continues a bus tour of american historic sites. she says it's not a campaign bus, but she plans a trip to iowa. >>> a lewd photo goes out to a college student on congressman anthony weiner's twitter account. he calls it a prank and says he was hacked. is there more than meets the eye? wolf blitzer is off. i'm candy crowley and you're in the "situation room." >>> anyone unfortunate enough to wind up in the hospital this memorial day may be in for a potentially dangerous surprise. a shortage of critical drugs. it's getting worse. our cnn's mary snow is going in-depth for us. what is this all about? >> reporter: this has been a problem that's been around as the drug industry consolidates, but as one doctor told us today, in her 30 years of practicing medicine, she's never seen the kind of

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. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> that's it for us. >>> it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. good morning to you. i'm carol costello in for kyra phillips. the schwarzenegger scandal keeps getting more shocking. his child with his wife, maria and his secret child with his housekeeper were born just days apart. >>> president obama getting ready to deliver a major speech on how the united states will deal with the new middle east. sanctions for some nations and help for others and a controversial suggestion for israel. >>> this just in to us. the number of people filing for first-time unemployment claims is down again. the second straight week of sharp drops. >>> four years into the job and four days after his arrest on sex crime charges, the head of the international monetary fund hands in his resignation. dominique strauss-kahn made the decision from his new york jail cell. he has been in custody since the weekend, accused of serxually assaulting an employee at a hotel where he was standing. calling for his to step down are getting pretty

jeanne moos reports on the national euphoria. >> reporter: osama bin laden is toast, and his demise wasome bubbly. at ohio state, students jumped into a lake. >> "usa." >> reporter: riders sang the national anthem on the new york city subway. ♪ star-spangled banner >> reporter: the pledge led from a pole. >> one nation, under god. >> reporter: ini have visible with liberty and wrestling for all, champ john senai announced bin laden's death ringside. >> i feel damn proud to be an american! >> reporter: the same exact date, may 1st that germany announced hitler was dead back in 1945. back then, there were no bloody taiwanese animations. the death of osama bin laden, brought back to life a certain unintentional faux pas, saying obama when you mean osama or vice versa. >> obama caught. >> reporter: nbc's isnora o'donnell tweeted obama shot and killed. ditto at a local station in washington, d.c. >> president obama is in fact dead. it was a u.s.-led strategic -- sorry, osama bin laden. >> reporter: rush limbaugh almost did it. >> obama -- sorry, osama is dead. >> reporter: talk about poker f

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> from cnn center, this is "cnn saturday morning" i'm joe johns in for t.j. holmes. borrowing from your 401(k) to make ends meet. many americans are forced to do it, but two senators say, it's a bad idea. and they want to limit the practice. the story this hour. >>> a government agency says thousands of swimming pools should not open this memorial day weekend. we'll tell you why. >>> and extreme couponing for a cause. find out how this man is sending care packages to military troops overseas without even coming close to breaking the bank. >>> but, first, six days after a tornado ripped apart joplin, missouri, rescue crews are still trying to find everyone. we're expecting an update shortly from state officials. but as of right now, 156 people are unaccounted for and the death toll has reached 132. more than 1,000 people are hurt. the federal government has approved nearly $3 million in aid and president obama plans to meet with survivors in joplin tomorrow. >>> all week we've been hearing extraordinary stories of survival, of strangers helping strangers

jeanne moos, cnn -- >> to the queen. >> reporter: -- new york. >> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "john king usa" starts right now. >>> thanks, wolf. good evening tonight from joplin, missouri. a very busy day of breaking news. the man charged with killing six people and wounding 13 in that january shooting spree targeting congresswoman giffords is ruled mental incompetent to stand trial. and the government gives the go ahead for prosecutors to seek felony charges against former presidential candidate in 2004 democratic vice presidential nominee john edwards. we begin tonight here in joplin with the threat of more severe weather rattling a shell shocked community where even residents who have lived in america's tornado alley for decades say they have not been able to sleep. >> i'm scared something's going to happen if we go to sleep. and i'm not going to be awake to hear it to help everybody else. i just -- in my mind, it just keeps going over and over. >> tonight could be another restless night in joplin and

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." john king usa starts right now. >>> thanks, wolf. good evening. tonight we're in louisiana. the water is here, you see them behind me. theorizing, slowly but steadily. in a week from now some of the homes in this community likely to be under water. look around. no sandbags, no urgent flood control efforts. one of the small towns potentially being sacrificed. deliberately flooded to protect more populated areas like baton rouge and new orleans from devastating flood levels. we spent our day today traveling up and down the mississippi river in louisiana and in mississippi, and tonight we'll show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. t

jeanne moos, cnn. >> to the queen. >> reporter: new york. >> that's all the time we have. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer. join us weekdays in "the situation room" from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. >>> top stories at this hour at the cnn "newsroom," a suicide bombing in northern afghanistan renewing concern about the country's security when u.s. troops withdraw there. taliban militants say they targeted a high-level nato meeting. the german commando was injured in this abeing that. he's expected to survive. seven people killed including a powerful afghan police chief and two of germany's soldiers. several explosions rocking tripoli today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound belonging to libyan leader moammar gadhafi. nato claiming responsibility, at least one of the attacks which it said struck a vehicle in a storage area. the airstrikes happened during the daylight which has been rare for nato strikes in libya. >>> president obama arrived b

jeanne moos explains. >> reporter: if you think a shrimp on a treadmill doesn't get very far, well thistwork so admired that youtube fans put it to music. all kinds of music. and the shrimp on a treadmill became trendy. shrimp scampying along, song after song. ♪ of the tiger >> reporter: but now just a few years later, he's become a poster boy -- look at him go. >> reporter: a poster crustacean for wasteful government spending. senator tom coburn put out a report mocking the national science foundation for funding research projects such as shrimp on a treadmill with a $500,000 grant. the media began cracking jokes about obese shrimp. >> you know what you call a shrimp that is overweight? jumbo. jumbo shrimp. >> reporter: this, this is my idea of shrimp on a treadmill. but you won't find this guy working out . he is at charleston where they are using that $500,000 grant to do what doctors do to people. this is like a stress test for shrimp. >> yeah, it is, exactly. >> reporter: how long will they run on it? >> they will run for hours, at least five hours in some cases. >> reporter: lab d

jeanne mo yne moos, cnn, new yo. >> that does it for me, thank you very much for watching, i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." john king usa starts right now. >>> thanks wolf and evening, everyone. tonight agony and destruction in joplin, missouri, at least 116 people are dead in what is now tied as the single deadliest tornado on record. neighborhoods turned to rubble, the tornado cut a path of destruction a mile wide and four miles long. >> the best way i can describe it is it looks like a nuclear bomb has hit. and the search and rescue teams race against the odds tonight, hoping to find survivors in the rubble. and there's this, a forecast warning of more tornadoes and severe weather across the midwest tomorrow and joplin is again in the danger zone. jackqui jeras is in joplin and gives us the very latest on this stunning stunning tornado. >> reporter: people are in search and rescue mode and the best news we have heard today is that seven people have been found alive, so seven survivors in joplin, missouri and that search and rescue is the big focus, and they say it's going to be

here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: three wives in one hideout? sounds like the setup to a joke. >> he'd been living couped up with his wives for five years. when the s.e.a.l.s came in, he said just shoot me. >> reporter: the closest americans come to multiple wives is hbo's "big love." >> it's my night. get out of here. >> i'm sorry. i just wanted to kiss bill good night. >> reporter: the night he was shot, osama bin laden was with his youngest wife, the 29-year-old. pictures of the other wives are scarce. they tend to be represented by faceless veils. just call him osama bin married, at least five times. when one of the stars of "despris housewives" was on "the view," maybe they should give a part two, one of bin laden's wife. talk about a desperate housewives. >> the real housewives of osama bin laden. [ bleep ]. >> followed by, keeping up with t . >> reporter: when it comes to mocking osama bin laden's latest videos, we discovered great comedians think alike. >> and he appears to be watching videos of himself on tv. wait a minute, that's me. >

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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> i am candy crawley in the situation room. i will be back sunday for state of the union. john king usa starts now. >>> thanks, candy. good evening. sarah palin is back front and center teeing up the bus tour for the campaign style bus tour that has many thinking she'd skip the 2012 presidential race. well, think again. >> we have a vision for the future of our country and it is a vision anchored in time tested truth. freedom is a god given right. >> there are many that say a palin campaign would squeeze out fell ee tea party favorite michele bachmann. but bachmann says she's ready to run and not worried about governor palin or anyone else. >> if i chose to run, i run to win. that's the only way that i do it, because if i'm it, i'm it, and i will do -- i am an extremely hard worker. >> a busy day, spicy day. >>> we begin in islam bad. tense moments between america's top noigss and the highest military officer. secretary of state clinton made clear the united states has no evidence suggesting top pakistan military figures provid

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, new york. >> the perp walk. thanks very much for joining us. i'm wolf blitzer. please join us weekdays 5:00 to 7:00 eastern, and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. >>> i'm don lemon at the cnn newsroom in los angeles. there's a lot of news right now so let's get you caught up. the rapture was supposed to happen an hour ago, but so far, it looks like this isn't judgment day at all. an evangelical radio host predicted the rapture would arrive 6:00 p.m. local time this evening. well, maybe you've seen one of the 2,000 billboards that supporters put up across the country warning us. so far, though, no reports of anyone ascending to the skies. though there is a volcano erupting under iceland's biggest glacier. we're talking about the rapture in just a few minutes with steven baldwin. you don't want to miss that. >>> in syria, the brutal crack down is far from over. a witness tells cnn that four people were killed today after a funeral march in the city of homs. >>> the same city was torn apart by violenc