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On the Radar: La. flooding, Japan reactor, bin Laden pics, Peace Corps rapes
Louisiana flooding - The state is bracing for the worst flooding it has seen in decades. Gov. Bobby Jindal told residents in the southeastern part of the state that they should leave their homes ahead of the anticipated opening of a spillway designed to divert the impending crest around the Crescent City. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open the Morganza Spillway and send a torrent of water down the Atchafalaya River, Jindal said. The people are banding together, and trying to get through the disaster as they have in the past. The Corps predicts the opening threshold will be reached sometime between Saturday and Tuesday.The floodwaters that have inundated tens of thousands of acres of Missouri farmland and lapped at downtown Memphis, Tennessee, are now on a steady, soggy march through Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Look at photos of the flooding and learn about what is causing it and how engineers are trying to mitigate it. Are you there? Tell CNN.com's Open Story about your experience.
Japan nuclear reactor –A low water level in a reactor building at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may have exposed fuel rods and caused them to melt, the owner of the facility says. Tokyo Electric Power Co. blamed the incident on a faulty gauge that monitors the water level in the pressure vessel in the No. 1 reactor building. Once the gauge was reset, workers discovered Thursday that the water level had dropped more than three feet (1 meter) below the fuel rods that need to be cooled by water to keep them from melting. The earthquake and tsunami in March in Japan has devastated the country.
Congress sees bin Laden pics - More members of Congress are seeing photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse. Republican Sen. James Inhofe told CNN that he saw about 15 photos of bin Laden's body. Most images were taken in the Pakistani compound where the al Qaeda leader was killed and three photos were taken on a naval vessel from which bin Laden was buried at sea after the May 2 U.S. commando raid. "Pretty gruesome," Inhofe said.
Peace Corps rapes - Several former Peace Corps volunteers say they were raped during their assignments overseas. Director Aaron Williams says the agency's culture of "blaming the victim" has to end. More than 1,000 sexual assaults have been reported since the year 2000.
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Missouri Just Say No to another nuclear plant and get rid of the plant in Callaway County. We need to be one of the first states to say no more to the electric companies and boot them out of our state. The state and representatives are saying that nuclear is a renewable energy. It is not. We need new reps and need people with new visions for the state we need to be vigilant with what they are passing. They are trying to bipass the people and do what is best for the stockholders. Goodbye Ameren hello new technology.
I love how a CNN journalist can say ra-pe in their article, but we can't say it in our comments. Anyhoo I actually expected there to be some violence against females in the peace corps. You're sending daddy's little girl to a third world country for years on end. If the male corps members don't give in to their desires, then one of the natives who doesn't mind forcing a suburban princess will take what he wants. If I were a young college age girl I'd stay out of the peace corps. I don't see any third world people coming here to feed the homeless.
I’m sick of banasy getting on here and telling us how she is blessed with a wonderful family and spouting out personal nonsense. And this pollution with her gang of buddies is sickening. They need to go to a chatroom or start their own personal blogs.
Banasy, you and your sista should go to the library and put books on the shelves. Do something useful for once. Txt or call your buddies. Just get off of these blogs.
Here's another scary story from a former volunteer who served in South Africa:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-555608
I have no friends, that's why I love how banasy gets on here and tells us how she is blessed with a wonderful family and telling us her stories.
And the rapport with her gang of buddies is so fun to read. They should to do it more!
Banasy, you and your sista sound like people I'd like to meet online. Do me a favor and kill me so I can make friends in hell.
Senator James Imhofe has seen the grusome pictures and now wants the united states to look at them. He has no class what-so- ever. If the senate has seen the pictures and has verified he is dead what is the need. To gloat. The deed is done. Next the republicans will want Osama Bin Ladens long form birth certificate.
The state and representatives are saying that nuclear is a renewable energy. It is not. We need new reps and need people with new visions for the state we need to be vigilant with what they are passing.