CBS Evening News - 2011-05-14
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:01] Tonight, opening the floodgates. Army
[0:04] engineers unlock a Mississippi River
[0:06] spillway for the first time in 38 years,
[0:08] hoping to relieve pressure on the river
[0:11] and spare New Orleans. I'm Russ
[0:13] Mitchell. Also tonight, terror arrests.
[0:16] Federal officials charge a South Florida
[0:18] imam and two of his sons with funing
[0:20] thousands of dollars to the Pakistani
[0:22] Taliban. Riding into history on the 50th
[0:26] anniversary of the Aniston, Alabama bus
[0:28] burning, civil rights pioneers remember
[0:30] their brush with death. And walking
[0:33] tall, a paralyzed college student
[0:36] fulfills a dream as he receives his
[0:38] diploma thanks to remarkable new
[0:40] technology.
[0:46] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:50] Mitchell. And good evening. For army
[0:52] engineers hoping to keep ahead of the
[0:54] rising Mississippi, it is the most
[0:56] drastic step yet. This afternoon, they
[0:58] open the first of the floodgates at the
[1:00] Morgan spillway upstream from Baton
[1:02] Rouge and New Orleans, diverting a
[1:04] torrent of flood water into the nearby
[1:06] Achafallayia River Basin, potentially
[1:08] flooding thousands of square miles of
[1:10] countryside. Dean Reynolds is in
[1:12] Morganza tonight with the very latest.
[1:13] Dean, good evening.
[1:15] >> Good evening, Russ. Officials told us
[1:17] this afternoon that everyone in an area
[1:20] the water will take 24 hours to reach
[1:23] has already departed. And as you can see
[1:25] behind me, with good reason.
[1:30] Only one of the 125 gates on this 4,000
[1:33] ft long spillway was opened. A cautious
[1:36] first step to give everyone and
[1:37] everything a chance to flee.
[1:39] >> We'll open one one bay today. We'l