let's go to ted rowlands with more. >> reporter: first we'll look at how much water we are dealing with. this is water from the mississippi river, but it is not the mississippi river. you see way off in the distance that building? that is about a half mile or quarter mile away from the banks of the mississippi river. all of this water into this spillway came from the mississippi so far away and came all the way up the levee here. this is the mississippi levee protecting the city. they've got two problems here. you see the wall on the backside of this little v and that red barge in the back is the ohio river. and that comes right up against that retaining wall, that brick wall. and the good news is the levels of both of the bodies of water have dropped over the last few days. people who have been evacuated for the last week are now coming back to their homes. authorities are telling them to leave in the evening hours because specifically the ohio river has a lot of pressure on it. if this levee gives way, the entire city would be flooded within a few hours. people are being asked to leav

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ted rowlands, cnn, illinois. >> travel problems in the streets and weather in the rest of the country what should people look out for on this sunday evening? >> lots to look out for. the water cover roadways, the number one thing. literally hundreds and hundreds of roads all the closed across the valley because of that. this is the big picture for tomorrow, and we're watching for problems for thunderstorms across the upper midwest and winds will be our other big travel issue, especially across the southwest and then again into the northeast. if you're traveling tomorrow a couple of pick cities where we could really have delays. chicago and o'hair expecting heavy delays in the afternoon because of showers and thundershowers. boston, logan, maybe moderate delays and this is moderate because of the winds. the later in the day, the more they can slacken off a little as the low pressure system starts to move out. salt lake city, we're expecting to see a lot of delays at the airport as well as roadways. slow going. leave a little bit early out the door tomorrow morning because we're going t

cnn's ted rowlands spoke to people on both sides. >> reporter: cairo, illinois sits between the mississippiire city would be underwater if not for the controversial decision to blow open this levee. the explosion opened a two-mile hole, flooding more than 130,000 acres of farm land in neighboring missouri. >> when you look at that, what do you think? >> i'm very sad. i look at that, and i don't have a home. >> reporter: marilyn nally's farm has been in her family for three generations. it would still be dry if the federal government hadn't blown up the lev yo. >> i feel like we're having to suffer for someone else. >> reporter: farmers ray and roy preston have 2,000 acres underwater. >> we always lived with the idea that someday they might have to blow it. the waters kept rising and we knew they would blow it. we don't like it, but you know, we have to accept it. >> reporter: the plan since 1928 has always been that if cairo, a city of about 15,000 at the time, was in danger of flooding the levee would be opened to save the city. but back then things were much different. cairo was a vibrant

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. >> ted rowlands for us in tucson. it is a fascinating cation. many ways. our cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. let me ask our legal counselor here, were you surprised at this? >> not really. his mental problems are so long standing and so clear that it is -- it's not a surprise but it's also not the end of this issue. i think people may be confused thinking he has now been found not guilty by reason of insanity. that has not happened yet. if and when he goes to trial if he is found sane notch to grow to trial, then he can perhaps claim insanity. but we're not at that stage of the case yet. >> not at that stage of the case yet. so he'll be re-evaluated. then they can come back into court. does the prosecution have to move to have a reconsideration or is this -- does the judge just look at an additional report? >> no, the judge has said, i am going to reconsider this issue in september. and there will be a new evaluation. basically, this ruling is about his mental status at the current time. can he understand the proceedings against him? it

as ted rowlands reports, he came eerily close. >> this was two years ago, ucla professor tom gillespiecomputerer showing us where he thought bin laden was hiding. he shows us the results of the study he and his stunlts put together. they applied a distance decay model used for endangered species. >> we treated him like any other endangered thing. >> they pringted he would be found within 300 miles of tora bora, where he was last seen. abbottabad, where bin laden was found, is 160 miles away. they also predicted he would be ena city, not a cave or a small town. >> if he's in a small town that is isolated, he could be easy identified and someone could go in and capture him. he's in a larger city, surrounded by other people, it could be much more difficult. we digitized the cities in the reejage. >> as for the type of structure they thought bin laden would hide in, check this out. this is what they submitted as an example. compare that to where bid laden was hiding. >> we used his life history like his height, 6'4", we assumed all buildings had to be over 6'4". we assumed there was some p

. >> ted rowlands was there when it happened. he's live for us in tucson this morning. a very bizarre courtroom appearance as we said. what ended up happening, ted? >> reporter: well, kiran, it was a very dramatic day in court. loughner was pulled out of court because of his outbursts and this happened just moments before the judge in the case ruled that he was unfit to stand trial. jared loughner was pulled from his chair and dragged out of the courtroom by u.s. marshals during a mental competency hearing wednesday in tucson. it happened following an outburst from loughner who sounded like he said, thank you for the freak show. federal judge larry burns then ruled he was incompetent to stand trial for the january shooting rampage. the judge agreed with two mental health evaluation of loughner that concluded he doesn't understand what's going on in court and can't help in his own defense. he'll spend a few months in a mental health facility where prosecutors say they're confident he can be helped enough to stand trial. >> our goal has always been and will always be to go

. >> ted rowlands, reporting live. >>> six people were killed in that shooting rampage, congresswoman gabrielle giffords was one of the 13 wounded. she is now recovering from houston. just last week, doctors replaced part of her skull. mary reed was also injured. she was shot three times, shielding her daughter from the gunman. one of the bullets still lodged in her back. she and her husband, tom, are on the phone with us. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> you are welcome. >> you are welcome. >> mary, i want to show a picture of what happened to you that day. you pushed your daughter up against a wall and you can tell you had your douarms out and yo were shielding your daughter. you were shot from both arms and once in the back. i want you to tell folks how you are doing. >> i am recovering very well. i am a sturdy woman. i have issues because the bullet is developing scar tissue around it and i get phantom pain in my leg from that. other than that, i am recovering well. my entire family was there at the shooting. we are very close as a family. we are all working

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