good morning, everybody. we are waiting on the water to arrive, in some places in southern louisiana after the army corp of engineers has made the difficult decision to open floodgat floodgates. that means that some cities -- yes -- will be saved, but that means others won't be. more floodgates could be opened today. also this morning -- and grammy winner, an oscar winner, a hall of famer and me? who does not belong in this picture? i get carlos santana, morgan

freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning -- we're talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we'll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let's start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of

those gates today. the idea here is to flood south central louisiana slowly in order to relieve pressure on levees downstream in places like baton rouge and new orleans. to give you an idea of how much water we're talking about right now, in the last hour alone, 269 million gallons have gone through that gate. meanwhile, several homes near the mississippi river in greenville, mississippi remain flooded. the river hasn't even crested there yet. the crest is expected tomorrow morning, expected to be just under six inches below the all-time record high that was set back in 1927. the floods across central louisiana in 1927 led to the building of levees that people hope will save their homes today, homes that today are in the path of millions of gallons of water now flowing out of the morganza spillway. >> if you look at some of the history from 1927, if these

levees and reservoirs and floodways would not be in there, it was an 80-mile width of water covering five states. >> the flashlight, the mirror, a life jacket, water, my pets, and a pistol. >> all right. look at this. it's just a mess for these folks downstream as i bring in reynold wolf here now. we keep calling this this slow-moving disaster. it is rare you have this kind of a heads-up of what's coming. literally, they have had a couple weeks now. >> that's the whole point. you want everyone to get word about this. isn't it amazing when you think about the heavy snow we had in the upper midwest in october, november, december, january, february, march, and now all of that had to go someplace right into the mississippi river. with heavy rainfall, about 600 times the amount they normally have, 600% the amount they

normally have, all flowing right into the basin and we're now dealing with it today. >> no more rain today or nothing significant in these areas will have an effect. >> thankfully the weather will cooperate today but it still doesn't take away that tragic story. despite the amount of water coming out of the flute gates it will still take while to make its way down to morgan city. later this afternoon, into monday and tuesday eventually getting very close to morgan city. can you see in this map the location of baton rouge in the banks of the mississippi river. the objective is to keep heaviest floodwaters away from that area but still affecting some 25,000 people that call this area home. some 11,000 structures, roughly 3,000 square miles that could be in some spots below 20 feet of water by the time this is all said and done. we need the weather to cooperate. rain not in louisiana and mississippi, but mostly out

toward the east, some of the heavier showers forming in parts of south florida. in parts of the northeast basically the same situation. scattered rain showers from michigan back into new york city, even into the keystone state of pennsylvania. mainly a rain story but in the higher elevations of mountains, you could see a foot of snow before the day is out. namely the sierra nevadas. chicago, perhaps major airplanes in new york, could face delays. in l.a., 63 the expected high temperature. >> reynolds, we appreciate you. check in with you again shortly. other news now, keeping a close eye on the overnight arrest of the head of the international monetary fund. dominic strauss khan is his name. you may not be familiar with his name, face or the imf but we'll

give you details. he was pulled off a plane headed from new york to paris, pulled off the plane just moments before takeoff. right now he's charged with a criminal sexual act and attempted rape of a maid at a luxury hotel where he was staying in new york. let me let our susan candiotti fill in some details. >> reporter: it was saturday afternoon at the hotel sophietelle at the times square motel in manhattan. the chamber maid had just come into the room of dominique khan. she said he was completely naked when she walked in and the police said that he attempted to force himself on her sexually. she was able to break away. she ran to the hotel staff. they in turn tried to find him. when the police arrived on the scene, mr. khan had already left the hotel. police quickly got word out to jafk airport where he was set to

leave on an afternoon flight from new york to paris. just before they closed the door police were able to hold the plane, they went on-board, they said he was seated in the first class section of the flight -- of the plane. he did not offer any resistance but they did lead him off the plane and turned him over to the new york police department. >> exactly who are we talking about here and what does he do? he is the head of the imf. the imf consider it kind of the world savings and loan, if you will. they've got about 360 billion ito lend. the u.s. contributes $70 billion for that fund. strauss khan has been the head of the imf since 200737 also of note here -- he's considered a cop tender for the french presidency in next year's election. many even thought him to be the front-runner. again there he is right now, the man many consider the front-runner for the presidency in france, now sitting in a jail

in new york. let's move to a story we were watching out of south florida yesterday. the fbi making arrests, arresting two muslim clerics yesterday, both were indicted on charges they funneled thousands of dollars to the pakistani taliban over the last three years. one is imam of the flagler mosque there. his son as well, an imam as a nearby mosque expected in federal court tomorrow. more violence in a cairo neighborhood to tell you about involvi. violence erupted turg a sit-in at the state tv building. the group demanded greater rights for the religious minority when they were attacked by several men. we hope this is not a sign of things to come. a rough way to get your presidency started but the lights went out just moments before the inauguration of haiti's new president, michel martelly. it may be a sign of the

challenges ahead for the former pop star known as sweet nicky. he promises to offer free education to young haitians and promised to fight government corruption. mike huckabee is not running for president. the former arkansas governor and 2008 republican presidential candidate was considered to be one of the favorites for the nomination. but now that is not going to happen. he made the announcement last night on his fox television show. >> all the factors say "go!" but my heart says no. and that's the decision that i've made. and in it, i finally found some resolution. >> he says his heart says no. lot of people say it is his wallet that says no as well. he's making some good money now that he's out of public office. has a show over there and also speaking engagements. but look at this here. this is why a lot of people thought maybe he would give it a go. huckabee was doing well in some recent polls, including a cnn/opinion research poll which found he was at the top of the list.

the poll also find that the majority of huckabee supporters would turn to mitt romney or even donald trump at replacement candidates. i want you to take a look at i assume you have never seen before. the world has never seen before. new photos of pop star michael jackson. they are from 33 years ago. he was 19 years old. they were taken by reginald garcia. he happens to be an inventor. he is now selling the 130 previously unpublished photos to help launch an electric motor he claims generates more electricity than it uses. president obama just released his long-form birth certificate not too long ago hoping to put to rest the whole birther controversy about where he might have been born. now we've got something else to throw into the mix. is the president actually irish? yes. he has irish roots here and he's going to ireland for a visit. and now one small village is

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some of them were out there before you. but when you kind of got into the mix, is that something you wanted? did you ever consider yourself kind of a leader being out front, a leader in the civil rights era, or did you just want to play baseball? >> i wanted to play baseball and i never felt like i was a leader but i felt like jackie robinson had paved the way for -- and i wanted to be a baseball player. let me put it that way. jackie robinson had paved the way for all of us. when i say all of them -- myself, willie and some of the other black whose came before him and was a little bit younger than he was. had paved the way. and i felt like it was my responsibility not only as a baseball player but to carry myself in such a way that other blacks would be able to look at me and say, oh, i not only want to be the same kind of ball player that hank aaron was but i want to carry myself off the field the way that he did. >> do you ever look back and think, you know what? i could have done without it, without the record. >> no, i never did. no. i felt like it was my

responsibility. god had given me the ability and -- to play baseball. i had the world on my shoulders. i knew that i could do most anything i wanted to do if -- out on the baseball field. and i always felt like i was it may sound kind of silly but i always felt like i was surrounded by angels on the baseball field. i just felt like there was absolutely nothing could happen to me. >> hank aaron is just one of the legends being honored by major league baseball this weekend. also ernie banks. also a hall of famer himself. morgan freeman this weekend, carlos santana, they're being honored as well. i had a chance to get all three of them in the same room. you don't want to miss my conversation with them coming up a little later at this hour. wachbt nt to bring in our g friend at hln sports ray d'alessio. >> you are the stud if you were interviewing all of those three men. >> i was so severely out of

place. grammy winner, oscar winner, hall of famer, then t.j. but i'm back in proper company now. >> yeah. oh, thanks. >> no. but this was a good one. we talked about this story yesterday. ocho cinco, people know his name by now, he's always doing something a little quirky. >> t.j., he makes for great tv especially during the nfl lockout. if we didn't have chad ochocinco. the latest publicity stunt, riding a bull on the pbr tour. a challenge issued by the pbr. if he got on the bull he would get $10,000. if he stayed on bull that required eight seconds he would win a pickup truck. as you saw he lasted all of 1 1/2 section. now fortunately, look at this. it's a very good thing his hand did not get caught there. could have gotten trampled on. he twittered later that was one of his biggest fears, getting trampled in the ropes. >> he makes $6 million a year!

>> my goodness. i hope we can rerack that. it is officially 1.5 seconds. didn't even look like that long. >> that's being generous. i'd say more like 1.3, 1.4 seconds. he barely got out of the gate. i like the focus, the attention. he's like let's go. we're out of the gate and we're down! that's a 1,500-pound bull. these guys didn't ride motorcycles, can't drive race cars, it's in their contracts. some can't do skiing. but since there is no collective bargaining agreement right now, everybody's up for grabs. >> turn to this race in southern california. >> you're familiar with it. >> i'm familiar with it. it is a show. >> beta breakers race today celebrating its 100th year. it's been known for its mayhem. a lot of alcohol-fueled

brutality. but this year they've banned the alcohol and they're warning people if you show up drunk, then they're going to send to you an alcohol tent to sober up. race organizers said we needed to do something last year. 26 people were sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning and it was starting to get real hard finding sponsors for. so the organizers said we need to do something. they limited the entry to just 55,000 thing. normally there's 100,000 runners. they show up, wear costumes, get tanked and show up and room. this year they said if you show up intoxicate and are running in the race, you'll be arrested. >> you saw gorilla costume, people out there half-naked a lot of times. it is an event. >> you've never raced in it. >> i've been down there and i got out of there. >> but you wanted to race in it, didn't you? >> yeah. but it is a dry run now. ray, good to see you, as always. enjoy the rest your sunday.

19 minutes past the hour now. forget about kenya. forget about hawaii even. we have uncovered that the president is an irishman actually and his small irish village has gone wild. after an announcement that their favorite son is coming home. yes, we got the next birther scandal right here for you, folks. it's true. you never forget your first subaru. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices...

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23 minutes past the hour. joined with our "morning passport." i was joking before the break and i probably shouldn't about the next birther scandal. i probably shouldn't do that because it will turn into something. but the president now talking about he is actually irish. >> well is of irish decent as are 22 of the 44 presidents in this country from, as the song we're about to hear, ronnie reagan from jfk. but the president himself spoke about his irish ancestry. let's hear from the president. >> in ireland that's where my great, great, great, great grandfather came from. >> yes, his great, great, great, great grandfather comes from a little irish village in ireland.

now when the irish prime minister was with president obama earlier this year -- in fact on st. patrick's day -- you know st. patrick's day, 17th of march, everyone's irish on st. patrick's day. he said, "i am coming to ireland before gi to britain and that's going to be on the 23rd of may." so he has promised the people where his great, great, great grandfather originated that he will make a stopover there so this village has gone insane. a band from the village tip-off has written a song in honor of obama and his visit. ♪ ♪ >> "now you are the president in the white house you are resident." don't you love it. >> how long ago was that statement --

>> that was when he found out first in 2007 he had irish ancestry. it was found out by a parishioner at one of the churches, they found records. but rather extraordinarily that he has this irish ancestry. band leader says he was watching video of obama's grandmother in kenya. he says why are we celebrating his kenyan ancestry, let's celebrate his irish ancestry. the secret service were in ireland in april. there is a bit of concern given what's going on here he may not get there. >> to get there, how long would it take them? >> it's half-an-hour from ireland by helicopter to get to mone moneygall. there are busts of obama everywhere. there is great celebration for his irish ancestry. the great, great, great grandfather. >> everybody wants to claim him

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we are at the bottom of the hour here on this cnn sunday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. looking at some of the stories making headlines, they have literally opened the floodgates. take a look at that, folks. it was opened yesterday. now parts of louisiana witnessing historic flooding. the u.s. army corp of engineers opened a single -- you see it there, that's just a single floodgate on the morganza spillway yesterday afternoon. more gates could be opened later today. the whole point here is to try to relieve pressure from the mississippi river. also in haiti, swearing in a new president there. had to do it in the dark for a time. michel marte lmpltlly.

there is just a bombshell out of new york city this morning. dominique strauss-khan. you might not know that name. he is the head of the international monetary fund. you might not be that familiar with the organization. but this is significant. let me explain. he is now under arrest on charges including attempted rape after a hotel maid claims he attacked her. for perspective here, cnn's jim bittermann is live in paris for us this morning. jim, if you can to our audience here, explain the significance of this man. >> reporter: well, couldn't be a bigger story than it is in france today. in fact, our colleagues at the 24-hour news channels here are going constantly on this story, they are not reporting any other stories chep this oexcept this . strauss-khan was the leading candidate for the presidential elections coming up in may 200012. he in public opinion polls was coming in ahead of nicholas sarkozy, the current president.

that's one aspect of it. the other suspect is he's the director of the international monetary fund. this is a worldwide organization. he had a meeting this afternoon. he was supposed to meet with angela merkel, the chancellor of germany. he had meetings in brussels next week over the greek debt crisis. a very powerful man and high-profile person. to have these charges leveled against him does bring him to earth very quickly. don't think we've seen a political career crash and burn quite like this except maybe when you go back to teddy kennedy and chappaquiddick or maybe an incident like this has brought down someone who's really high flying. >> more detail about what happened, he was accused in that hotel, then the police actually took him off a plane at jfk headed over to where you are in paris just minutes before takeoff. he still remains in jail as far as we know. any reaction from the imf and also what is the reaction from folks on the street there?

you said the 24-hour net yoshgs are certainly covering this. is this just shock there in paris right now? >> reporter: i think shock and some disbelief. you hear a lot of people say -- in fact a lot of political class are saying let's wait until the facts are in and let's see what happens with the arraignment this afternoon when strauss-khan is brought into court in new york. one thing that's being suggested is that he might be let out on bail but might face some travel restrictions, may not be able to leave the united states. it is hard to imagine a french presidential candidate not being able to leave the united states to campaign or the director of the international monetary fund stuck in the united states not able to travel. there's a lot of implications. i would say shock, disbelief, bombshell, a thunder bolt is the way the head of the socialist party described it. at least one leading politician said that she was not that surprised because there have been rumors for years going back to 2008 especially about his

sexual misconduct. and in fact in 2008 there was a case of sexual harassment brought against him by a subordinate at the international monetary fund. he was cleared of that but reprimanded and was kind of on probation at the imf because of that. >> jim bittermann with perspective. thanks so much. 34 minutes half the the hour. a have teenager taking a leech faith to combine his love of rock 'n' roll music with god. he decided to organize a day-long christian rock festival to help kids his own age experience some positive music. this all happened yesterday. cnn's sandra endohas his story in today's "faces of faith." >> reporter: t.j., the weather could have been a little better for this concert, but for believers here, there's a higher power shining down on this

event. rock concerts are nothing new for most 17-year-olds. but for jonathan sly, this particular concert is a product of his prayers. >> no rain is good news. i put this like crazy calling on my heart and he was -- it was to start a music festival. >> reporter: this idea came to him as the aspiring singer was searching for a purpose. so sly started small, picking up the phone, asking local christian bands to perform in a spiritual spring rock concert. you had a lot of doors close on your face at first. >> yes. >> what was that like for you? >> that was really tough because i probably almost quit this a thousand times or something. there were so many times where i kind of asked god, god, is this for real? do you really want me to keep doing this? please give me a sign. show me. i kept you praying. god fully shut me down if this is not of your will but then he would just get us over the hump.

>> reporter: soon his vision grew bigger with a price tag to match. he somehow persuaded major hip-h hip-hop, rock and heavy metal bands to perform at the festival for a discounted rate. even multi platinum selling band p. 0679 d. agreed to headline the show. the total cost for this calling, more than $70,000. his parents bearing the financial debt if at least 3,000 tickets weren't sold. >> that is really scary because i mean my dad is just a pastor and my mom's a preschool teacher and this is just such a leap of faith. >> i can't get limb to organize his room and he's going to organize a concert with 15 bands and $70,000 budget? so this is kind of scaring us. >> reporter: but sly's mission was simple and embraceable. sending out a positive message through music. >> we're not trying to shove jesus down anyone's throats here but i would love to bring everyone together. >> it's rare to find young people that age with that much

passion, that much love and that much faith in what they believe in to just go out and say i feel like i'm going to called to do it, and i'm going to do it. success doesn't matter how many tickets are sold. it is the fact that he's doing it and will continue to do it. >> reporter: six months of hard work all for this display of faith. talking about a full-time job the next few summers. >> reporter: working to pay those bills off. right? >> we own him. >> reporter: but the payoff for this pastor's sign not measured in money. >> despite the rain, there's a whole lot of spirit here. there's always next year for redemption. t.j.? >> all right, thanks to our sandra endo. cnn.com/belief. we told you this flood something going on and some of it is being done on purpose in louisiana. but there's a reason behind it. they have to sacrifice some areas to try to protect others

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sunday morning but it is a perfect time for candy. "state of the union" coming up with candy crowley. how are you doing, first of all? >> i am doing very well. how are you? >> i am doing much better now. always a businey weekend but ha you a busy day today. you've got two people that we need to hear from today. >> senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate, paul ryan who runs the budget committee on the house side and has put out a very controversial -- at least as far as the democrats are concerned -- budget plan. look, we're running up against that debt ceiling after which the u.s. will no longer be able to borrow money to pay off its bills. we shall hit it around august. there's not a lot of common ground at this point. we want to see where -- how far the republicans will go in compromise and ask both of them about that. there's obviously some syria continues to heat up and want to

talk a little bit about that with mitch mcconnell. >> how far are they willing to go? we still have a little time once we hit that limit this summer. the treasury secretary says he can play with numbers a little bit, can last us maybe to the end of the summer. but is it going to get that far? >> well -- yes, probably. >> really in. >> because congress tends to expend the amount of time it's given. so there's that. but what we have heard from the speaker on the house side is $2 trillion in cuts and we cut as much as the debt ceiling goes up. those are his terms for delivering house republicans. now the question is, is that not negotiable? is that their bottom line? if they come out of the vice president's commission now looking at ways to reduce the debt. republicans and democrats on it. if they come out with something different, will they accept nothing less than that? because you got to go to plan b at some point. >> all right. well, candy, we'll see the answers you get from them.

>> we'll sort it all out. >> you'll be doing that sorting in 19 minutes. top of the hour. candy, always good to check with you here on cnn sunday morning. to our viewers, you need to keep it right here. she's coming up. top of the hour, 9:00 eastern time. 6:00 a.m. pacific. well, the new civil rights struggle. find out what a hall of fame baseball player, a grammy award winning musician, and an oscar winner think about challenges facing today's young people. is it worse than it was in their day? my conversation with three legends in just 75 seconds away.

43 minutes past the hour now. major league baseball celebrating the country's civil rights history this weekend. culminates with the civil rights game being played this afternoon. that game is just a small part of the weekend's festivities. there was also the beacon awards bank question the. these beacon awards given out to several people honored every single year. this year ernie banks, hall of famer, morgan freeman, the actor, carlos santana, the musician, were all honored. i got all three of these guys in the same room. we talked about baseball's past but how that actually plays into the nation's future. >> mr. banks, could you even imagine -- i guess there was a time you couldn't even imagine there being a black player in major league baseball but now there's a black president. what was your thought. >> it was -- you know, very unique.

i didn't ever think it was going to be a black manager, a black general manager. and jackie said this -- 1972, he said he felt that baseball had reached its pinnacle unless you see a black man standing on that third base coaching. so it begins with him, back with him. jackie. jackie was really a pioneer. i think he is responsible for barack obama being the president of the united states, going way back there. it was before the civil rights movement. jackie was a person who lived up to all of that and helped change that superior or the and inferiority to zbr-- >> more of equality. >> you made a very profound statement there. you think jackie robinson is responsible for barack obama being in the white house. you think people forget that and put it in a category because it

was sports? >> it's a long string. but every now and then somebody comes along and connects both ends so that we can see it clearly again. i don't know if we actually forget it. >> what is, in you all's opinion, my generation's or even a generation younger than i am, our civil rights struggle? because it was so obvious -- it may have been so clear back then zblsh well, bob marley said itself very clearly -- emancipate yourself from mental slavery. when you're born, you're light in love. later on they convince you you're black, or yellow, or mexican or this. one of the quantum leaps in consciousness for me was when i saw the movie "guess who's coming to dinner," when mr. sidney poitier looked at his dad and said, dad, when you look in the mirror you look at a black man in the mirror. when i look in the mirror, i just see a man, period. now that's a quantum leap. >> that's a big difference.

>> in america, especially america, america brainwashes a lot of their children into minority. just even the word alone -- it is a minority. how can you be a minority when you're a child of god? you must be out of your damn mind. >> t.j., i took some kids to see the jackie robinson play in chicago. young kids. and they had no idea about anything that jackie had done. none. so that's what you're talking about. a young generatijegeneration, w that, they don't understand any of that. they would ask me about it, what did jackie do here, what did he do here. he stole home, he did this, he did that. but i always try to explain that, this was something that was a big change in all of sports around the world. and jackie was responsible for it. so they kind of left us, we say

you go and study this, google jackie robinson and look up. >> the governor of georgia signed a bill that people really find offensive. now one of the toughest in the country, modeled after the one that was out in arizona. what do you think about some of what we have been seeing, whether it is arizona, whether it's in georgia, what seems to some people to be mean-spirited in that we're writing legislation essentially some say to discriminate against a particular group of folks. >> i think this country's moving ahead by leaps and bounds on one side of the ledger. and we just have to be careful about what we see happening on another side of the ledger. the legislature here in georgia, the legislature there in arizona. that is absolutely un-american.

completely. that's the kind of discrimination that we now have to -- it's going to be our next civil rights struggle is immigration. just we're a magnet for people. we want to continue to be that. if you're not that, then you're not who you say you are. what does it mean to be an american anymore? >> reynolds and i just marveling zblsh amazing. >> the voice. >> it just resonates. i've got an opinion on something. over the last couple of days, you've spoken with hank aaron, carlos santana, morgan freeman and ernie banks. out of all these guys -- they're all impressive -- which one did you -- who surprised you the most? >> surprise? maybe carlos santana actually. >> really. >> the guy is deep. to be honest with you. we never get to hear from him

that much. we're all used to just hearing that guitar and that's how he usually speaks to us but he is a very interesting character. i called him a child of god. you hear kind of how he speaks there. that's just how he is. he just got married in december. he is just a different cat on a different level. always talking about shucking and jiving. these guys, first time they'd ever been in a room like this together. their dynamics, they were just an interesting group to get with but all three of them received awards from major legal baseball for their philanthropic work for their contributions over the years, including morgan freeman there who of course has different organizations that help young people quite frankly. but it has, it's been every once in a while in these jobs, some days you have to pinch yourself like, wow, i get to do this. hank aaron, i got a chance to speak with. now ernie banks. my goodness. are you kidding me? >> and very humble people. >> these three, i couldn't get them to admit they'd done anything to contribute to the world. we sat there for the longest at the beginning, just saying come

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