. >> stephen: this takes all power away from the local elected officials. but harris is still willing to listen to all the voices in city government because they are all now his voice. >> so the fact of the matter is city managers now gone, i am city manager. i will take-- i'm the finance director the city manager, the mayor and the commission. and i-- . >> stephen: or as his press secretary later clarified -- >> i am the law! harris had to strip the elected representatives of their power or they might have opposed his ideas to save money like merging the fire and police departments. because everybody knows that cheapest way to get a cat out of a tree is you just shoot it down. for some reason, the local officials didn't enjoy this electoral castration. so last week city commissioners passed a resolution rescinding the emergency financial manager. but harris immediately rescinded their rescinding on the legal grounds that they can kiss his ass. i say-- good for him. because the people of benton marber brought this on themselves. a city of 10,000 people, sadd

public safety is our number one priority and we're fighting thing shoulder to shoulder with the local officials. >> in other words, no, that's because the residents chose to live here despite the risk. the reality tough to take. >> makes me sick. >> reporter: the water could reach 15 feet in some areas. moving trucks lined the streets. this family is packing up everything they can. >> there wasn't fluff to go around. we had to pool our resources from citied and states away. >> reporter: so many here sacrificed so many more will be protected. >> alan: back home, it is wet and cold out there. what is going on? >> leigh: a late season spring storm, and it is really coming down in some locations. this is how it looks on the east bay cam. you can see 80 there with wet roadways. live doppler 7hd picking up heavy rain now, heading towards milpitas, and moisture moving into the area. north bay, check out novato, heavy rain down towards fairfax, and golden gate bridge, wet pavement, ocean beach, san francisco coe, east bay, walnut creek picking up moisture, and it's down from san jose, towards saratoga,

we'll work with the local officials kind of in stages. is the rescue and emergency operations. the second stage is the immediate needs. then we'll look at getting critical facilities back online, maybe even using temporary facilities until we get them rebuilt. this is going to take several years to rebuild all this damage. but we're not going to go away just because it's not in the news. we're going to work this with the local officials and the state all the way through the recovery. >> ifill: craig fugate administrator of fema, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brown: still to come on the newshour: chrysler's loan payback; israeli prime minister netanyahu's address; nato's bombing in libya; plus a reporter's view of the war there. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president and mrs. obama began a full state visit to britain today. it was only the second ever accorded to a sitting american president. day one was filled with pomp and ceremony, starting with the presidential motorcade's arrival

. >> then it's up to the local parishes, the local officials, the law enforcement officials to be able to decide when and where they need to evacuate and how they need to evacuate. >> reporter: the loss of their crops could bankrupt many of the farmers here. >> if i had to guess it's going to be well over a million dollars. >> reporter: a potential sacrifice of rural areas to save the cities on the river. maya rodriguez, cbs news, new orleans. >> mitchell: turning now to the aftermath of the death of osama bin laden, president obama is giving his first interview on the u.s. raid to "60 minutes" later this evening. in that exclusive interview, steve kroft asks mr. obama about suspicions that bin laden received some sort of pakistani help. >> do you believe people in the pakistani government, pakistani intelligence agencies knew that bin laden was living there? >> we think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. >> mitchell: and you can see the full steve kroft interview with president obama later tonight on "60 minutes." in pakistan, a poll ou

safety is our number one priority and we are flood fighting this shoulder to shoulder with all the local officials and the state officials. >> reporter: in other words, no. that's because these residents chose to live here, despite the risk. the reality is tough to take. >> makes me sick. it actually makes me sick. >> reporter: the water could reach 15 feet in some areas, moving trucks line the streets in morgan city. this family is packing up everything they can in a hurry. >> there wasn't enough to go around. we had to pool our resources from cities and even states away. >> reporter: so many here sacrificed so that many more will be protected. >> it's a pretty bad feeling knowing if you don't take it with you, you probably will never see it again. >> reporter: the army corps of engineers plans to leave these gates open for several weeks. that's because the river is still rising. they don't expect it to crest for another ten days. they need to alleviate pressure on those levees. >> yunji de nies, thanks. evacuations are taking place while we're on the air. cynthia is with us from louisiana in the

the airport. officials want to bury the station's underground. local officials want a cheaper option. >> the virginia governor says the state will not foot the bill underground metro at dulles airport. some say taxpayers will bear the difference when in opinion, there is no benefit to an underground station. i would say the cheapest is the way to go. >> in a letter to the airport mcdonald says he is disappointed in decision and hopes the board come to a more fiscally sound decision. she agrees and says the train be above ground. as it gets people to airport, we cannot complain. it is fine. >> others think virginia is taking the easy way out. they're going to spend all money and wind up half a mile away from the terminal. how appealing that folks. to some >> there is concern that an underground option would be more , especially for taxpayers in surrounding counties and drivers who use the tollway. >> i do not want to see the told going up again. peoplet goes out to the virginia. we reached out to the board he had too see what about the governor's letter

depends on what our military and political and state department people evaluation in concert with the local officials government officials up in atlanta stand i think that's in their best interest and we have to evaluate what's in our best interest in our allies as long as al qaeda is operating in that region as long as the taliban is operating in that region i think the united states has an interest in preventing for the future harm to america and our friends and allies ok i've got to back to you buy into that. you know i'm afraid i don't my you perception is that from the for a long time well us foreign policy at least as far as it relates to this part of the world is dictated not by the white house or made on capitol hill it in fact made in the pentagon and langley and by. once again posting. offering that cia job who are ex military officers they would prefer is who fight recall correctly in two thousand and seven when he testified before congress about a surge of the surge in iraq had he got it approved from congress and the congress later learned that he told lies. he was called little little c

the wet weather. in next week, we have rain chances and we are shifting gears in our weather pattern. >> coming up next, botox for young beauty contestants. one locall mom is defending the practice. >> a local official enjoying a pension on the local pay roll. how this saves money? how this saves money? @@@@ ♪ ♪ free access to chase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matters. >> abc news that child protective services ising a fran frann mother who gave botox injections to her eight yoor old daughter. kerry campbell said it is to give her daughter an edge in the beauty pageant circuit. she is not the only one. >> they told me about the linos her face and how the moms are giving their kids botox. it is the thing. i am not the only one who does it. >> i do it, it hurts sometime and i get used to it. >> her mother feels that the botox is safe to use. food and drug safety labeling said botox is not recommended in use for children >> new tonight at 6:00, half of china town restaurant workers don't make minimum wage. the cam -- campaign to end that. >> we want to make sure you have a comment. >> c

. >> wouldn't the local prefect now, the local official that runs the achieve chase police station, likewhere i love. >> if it against $25 from somebody, don't ask questions, he'll keep his mouth shut. >> the pakistani government put out the statement, that it illustrates the resolve of the international community including pakistan to fight and eliminate terrorism. pack stage has played a significant role in efforts to eliminate terrorism. we've had significant sharing arrangements, we will continue to support international efforts. that's rather bland, richard. is it believable? >> it depends on how far back you said to go. our good friend bob wind ram says that one of the main source of information was khalid shaikh mohammed, that he was one of two gitmo detainees who gave up this intelligence intelligence, gave the name of the courier that was trusted by bin laden, and that it was following this courier that ultimately led to his captured. he wouldn't have been captured without the help from the pakistanis, so if you go back to a historic relationship, the pakistani role has been sig

fair to say that part of the pain and anguish that the families are feeling is the fact that the local officialssimply overwhelmed, some of the families would even say not quite competent? >> a response was starting and calls were literally coming in from all across the country, they just began trying to make a record of those contacts. as time moved on and we moved through that first list, it was clear that there were a lot of data points coming in that needed to be put together. so yesterday morning seeing the way that that was, we decided to take over that part of the operation, bring our folks from drug and crime control, bring troopers off the road to make sure we manage that and make sure we put a hard list out there that's accurate that we'll work with over the next few days to move that 232 number of unaccounted for people down to zero, that are our goal to get to zero. >> this is tammy niederhelman, she said a neighbor saw her son's body taken away. she got in line, sometimes she was told go away, we'll call you. other times she was told to fill out more paper work. i want you to listen

the. local officials that oh look it's ok we do it you know what other countries censor the internet that's a big problem but when the u.s. government does it since we're so noble you know our intent is always for the best there is no problem. do you think that bill clinton made a full in every hasn't been released yet but i think he may have made a gaffe here too because he was asked about waking leaks and asked about the diplomatic cables that were released specifically and he kind of said oh it's fine i think will recover from all the information that came out i mean that wasn't information that was you know that was true information that wasn't some kind of a lie that was put on the internet these are actual diplomatic cables if he thinks that all of that can be forgiven what's the point in fact checking. yeah i mean i think it's funny how different priorities are held by the different agencies i think most americans agree it's really important to have this information out there and that what we need to be focusing on is getting more information about our government more accessibility m

we're working closely with the local officials to get flooding in place. we're building temporary levees, temporary structures. so we're out here with the levee districts with the national guard to get some protection built up to help those communities. >> not since 1973 had the spillway been opened. this is theory. the engineers work on the models all the time. what has gone, in a way, worse than you predicted? anything? >> the system has gone as functioning. we're starting to divert the flows into the atchafalaya system. the system is under pressure. it will be for a long time. our concern is making sure we're out there on the system, making sure the system is intact while we're still working with the communities to help. >> and when you turn to something like this, this is working. now, we should be able to walk down there. a lot of people do in the evenings. does this tell you even though the water is up higher here than it normally is, does this tell you that opening the spillway, that other steps are working, that you're mitigating the risk to morgan

safety is our number one priority and we are flood fighting this shoulder to shoulder with all the local officials and the state officials. >> in other words, no. that's because these residents chose to live here despite the risks. but the reality is tough to take. >> makes me sick. it actually makes me sick. >> the water could reach 15 feet in some areas. moving trucks line the streets in morgan city. this family is packing up everything they can in a hurry. >> there wasn't enough to go around. we had to pool our resources from cities and even states away. >> so many here sacrificed so that many more will be protected. >> well, here, the pavement a bit wet this morning as thousands of runners get ready for beta breakers. >> yeah. quite a change out there. you hear the rain last night? >> no, i found -- >> yeah. >> well, definitely cool out there, numbers have dropped significantly. only in the mid 40's. the golden gate bridge had a few puddles out there and more rain is off shore. i'll show you our radar and what to expect for a pretty cool week ahead coming up. >> thank you, lisa. also coming up

safety is our number one priority and we are flood fighting this shoulder to shoulder with all the local officials and the state officials. >> in other words, no. that's because these residents chose to live here despite the risks. but the reality is tough to take. >> makes me sick. it actually makes me sick. >> the water could reach 15 feet in some areas. moving trucks line the streets in morgan city. this family is packing up everything they can in a hurry. >> there wasn't enough to go around. we had to pool our resources from cities and even states away. >> so many here sacrificed so that many more will be protected. >> well, here, the pavement a bit wet this morning as thousands of runners get ready for beta breakers. >> yeah. the weather has been odd all year long, that continues. >> it's not unusual to have rain in may. there's only been three mays in the last 30 years where we haven't had measurable rain. so -- >> ok. >> a little sobering fact for you. so we are, obviously, relatively normal to see a little precip but it's cold rain. here's a look outside from emeryville this morning where

after the panel discussion, we will have time to hear from the local elected officials. then we will open the meeting for public comments. if you would like to speak during the public comment section, please fill out a yellow card and return that to a member of our staff. i would like to introduce adrian, who has done amazing work for this commission. she's the executive director of the office of immigrant affairs would you introduce the speakers and panelists. thank you very much. >> thank you, chair mccarthy. it's truly a pleasure to introduce tonight's keynote speaker. the professor is a highly respected legal scholar. he is an sbure, he is an author and an expert on immigration law. among his many leadership roles at stanford law school are director of the arthur and tony rock center for corporate governance, associate dean for executive education and special programs, co-director of the director college and if that wasn't enough, he is also co-founder of the open source corporate governance reporting system project. he is an overachiever. the professor is a frequent

. >> we'll take local officials up assuming the air stays stable, we'll get around and give the localopportunity to look down on what the devastation field is. >> you've heard that the president is coming in. you spoke to the president this morning. >> i spoke to him yesterday morning, i spoke to him get this morning. he sent his -- once again they've said that they would do anything they could to help us recover and also hopes and prayers for the folks here. this is a significant tragedy, loss of life, pretty much everybody in joplin knows somebody who has been lost and with the numbers moving up this could be worse as the day goes on. >> what's your message out there to the government, the federal government, the help you need from them and what others can do for you? >> in the short run we want to finish the searchs. we think there are people who could be alive and save those. these first responders from around the state and nation have been helping us is important. secondly we want to hake sure the people injured have been safe. we have had to triage people because the hospital ha

around, we talk to these folks face to face, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with the mayors, the local officials what i've done in some of these communities, i've sent folks forward. i sent supplies, sandbags, pumps and all sorts of things. we're going to flood fight this as best we can with the local community, with the state, with the levee boards, with the national guard, and we're going to be right there flood fighting this thing until the end. >> and how do you make the calculation? are you looking at a map and saying, if we do this, if we open it, i'm going to flood this town, it's a modest town of 50 or 60 people, or 80 pohomes wou be destroyed, and the i don't do this and it gets down towards new orleans and baton rouge, and we're talking about much higher devastation, much higher catch value of devastation? is that how you make the decision? >> no, look, this is a system, and if you go all the way back upriver and you can go back to the ohio river and there are a bunch of dams and reservoirs that hold back water. so we take all of these different dams, reservoirs, and floodways into acc

the local and county and state officials have said whatever we need they will provide and whatever we federal level they will do that. i surveyed the damage this afternoon and someone asked them, have you seen anything like this? and he said possibly tuscaloosa but in his career he's never seen anything like this devastation. if you're seeing the pictures on tv, to me they don't do it anywhere near justice. the best way i can describe it is a movie of a nuclear disaster and it looks like a nuclear bomb has hit. i want to thank the governor and everybody else for their participation and i'll turn it back over to the city manager. >> can you, congressman long. next we have rich. >> thank you. >> first off, my con dell lenses to the victim' families as well as the survivors. the full support of the family to the state of missouri as well as to the city of joplin, we are going to be here for the long haul. the president has declared out of this disaster declaration, which means that the people of the affected counties are eligible for assistance as well as obviously the city. but one thin

. >> the fbi has told local officials to be on the lookout for missing spikes and packages left on or near the rails. they say this alleged plot is based on initial reporting so it could be inaccurate or subject to change. but have no plans to issue an official terror alert. reporting live in northeast abc7 days. >>> the names of five servicemen were added to the jeter -- the vietnam veterans memorial ahead of dave ceremony scheduled for tomorrow. one of the names added died in 2009 from paralysis from wounds he suffered during the war. the number of names now stands at 58,000. >>> in georgetown investigating a robbery at a georgetown university apartment. the 3500 block in northwest washington. the suspect allegedly demanded money and drugs. two students were reported they tied up and beaten who later escaped with a laptop computer. anyone with information should call police. >>> virginia gov. bob mcdonnell says the man has denied disaster -- fema deny disaster relief. virginia was hit by more than two dozen twisters in april. he is considering whether to appeal. >>> we began the day

in the counties and the parish's have levee board members that are appointed or elected by the local officials that interact with the mississippi system that make decisions as to what should happen. that being said, a lot of them have been put in that create electrical power. those were local decisions that were made up forever. i don't have enough specific information to respond directly but i can tell you that the poor people that are being affected by this flood, they are the victims here. host: new york city, good morning. caller: i want to thank you for all the work you did in katrina. i saw you on a 60 minute special with the mayor of new orleans and the talked about how great you were there. i want to thank you for all the work you have done for this country. i have yet to see leaders in uniform that perform the way you have done. you perform admirably and a respect to a lot. i believe if you're out there helping in iraq and afghanistan or libya, you would do a great job with great leadership and great strength. thank you for your time, sir, and your service. guest: thank you. host: her

my fantastic stars, and i want to take this opportunity just to remind the elected officials that the locally owned small businesses are the true economic engine of the city. we hire local and we by local, we are not outsourcing the jobs. we will always be here in san francisco and we will not complain about payroll taxes. small business is where it's at. thank you very much for your honor. >> and i told you he was an advocate. >> the next hon. the recognized by the supervisor of district 4. >> before i bring him up today i want to thank the office of small business and the small business commission for all the work you do. the office of small business -- they have been very instrumental in helping us to get around the issue of compliance to make certain that the small businesses have the resources that they need to make improvements to the store fronts to avoid litigation. but now they work with the ball -- bar association to give us access to legal help. i want to thank them for their work on this. let me invite them up, if they can come up. i would like to recognize the small-business owne

the queen's reign. before she left she met a local official, the first and only time such a meeting has happened. there was just one further stop, cork, capital what have used to be called the rebel county. today it became the most relaxed center the queen has been to here and for once the crowdses were able to get close. >> did you enjoy your visit? >> very much indeed. absolutely. >> across the river a couple of hundred republics shouted their protests. but they were very much the minority. the queen was visiting a local market before heading to the airport and home. so, the visit is over, but how will it be judged? certainly in terms of impact here in ireland, the visit has been a considerable success. the thing is, irblede will remember this visit -- ireland will remember this visit, not just that the queen came but comma what she did and what she said. >> and the reason people will talk about this visit in years to come is bazzes because her words and deeds have for most people drawn a line under the past. it has -- in her speech on wednesday the queen said that these irelands' history were

the queen visited. before she left, she met a local official, the first and only time such a meeting has happened.s just one further stop, the capital of what used to be called the rebel county. the crowds were able to get close to the queen. across the river, a couple of republicans shouted their protests, but they were very much the minority. the queen went to the market before heading to the airport in home. the visit is open -- over a period in terms of impact in ireland, this has been a considerable success. ireland will remember this visit. they will remember what she did and said. the reason people will talk about this visit in years to come is because her words have drawn a line under the past. she said these islands is full of heartache and pain. she could reflect that that history -- had been added to this week for the better. ♪ >> bbc news, the headlines. the former head of the imf is awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault and has posted bail from a new york prison. the israeli prime minister has rejected obama's calls for a peace deal with the palestinians. it is based on the 1967

the special strategy local officials are using to stop would-be terrorists. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, judgme >n jose city councilman is calling his dui areporters weekend a terribler arrest over the weekend a terrible arrest over the weekend. ash kaira was arrested downtown. he was elected in 2008 and is the first indian-american to serv on the city council and is a former public defender. yesterday, he said, "i am deeply embarrassed by my action and i am prepared to take the full consequences for them." >>> security official in san jose preparing for the worse. yesterday they held a terror prevention exercise at a vta station. the timing was a coincidence. one week after the death of i osama bin laden. the exertion was called visibilities prevention. security first from homeland security, tsa and san jose sheriff's department act as deterrents to terrorist activity just by being there. >> i don't know how terrorists act exactly but it would seem their presence would make them move on. >> as we have learn from intelligence gathered at bin laden's compound he may have been planning to target u.

, the federal government put the n word on dozens of tombstones in the cemetery in the sierra foothills. local officialsy hurry to do anything about them. robert lyles on the surprising group stepping forward to finally get rid of this program. >> and currently there is 36 graves in the third congressional district that are unknown on the grave markers. >> right in the heart of eldorado hills. the man tried to carve hate, told this area's congressman it has been a decade long losing battle with eldorado county. >> you help close the deal. > applauses his efforts, but didn't assume responsibility to help. >> deserve moving in the right direction. >> maybe not, press secretary said it's all about the line. the island cemetery sits on the line between sacramento and eldorado county and he believes the graves are over sacramento county line, so over his line of responsibility. what's more, the army corps of engineers accepted responsibility for authorizing the creation of the grave marker, but responsibility is no longer theirs. >> well the line is a holdover from white and black in america. that's the line