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CHETRY: We're crossing the half hour. We want to get you updated on our top stories. They left with his body and a lot of actionable intelligence, perhaps -- hard drives, computer disks. U.S. officials now are going through what is being called the mother lode of intel that Navy SEALs were able to take away from bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. The White House is still deciding whether or not to release a photo of the dead bin Laden. They blew the levee to save a town. New pictures this morning of what looks like a war zone in America's heartland. The Army Corps of Engineers blasting a levee on the Mississippi River last night to let the flooded river flow into nearby farmland. The Corps predicts this will lower the river between three and four feet, sparing the town of Cairo, Illinois, and other communities upstream. Well, the South is still trying to recover after the worst tornado outbreak in American history. It is now official, NOAA estimates 312 twisters touched down in a 24-hour period that started last Wednesday. That is more than double the previous record of 148. Jacqui Jeras is in the extreme weather center right now. She's talking about all of the flooding in the Midwest this morning. And just these official numbers out of NOAA, was it just a fluke or do they have any reason why they had double the amount than they've ever seen before?</s>JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Oh, I mean this was historic event. You know, I don't know if this was necessarily a fluke or wave of the future. Apart of it has to do with a lot has to do with more people being out there seeing some of these tornadoes as well. The big threat is changing now from rotation -- though, some isolated severe weather can be expected today -- to flooding. The rain has been so heavy. We've had the stationary front parked here which has brought in a tremendous amount of rain into the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys over the last two weeks. We're finally starting to see an end of this for you, from St. Louis, down towards Memphis. And it looks like we'll get a good couple days of break and we really, really need it. Take a look at this map. This is showing you the rain in the last two weeks and all of this bright purple and into the white area, that's between 10 and 20 inches in a two-week period. That's more typical of what you would see in this area in five months. Just to put in perspective. So, that's just an incredible amount of rain. Flooding is widespread and we're estimating that along the Mississippi River here, there's about 800 miles of flooding. This bright red area is where it is occurring. And this is having major impacts on homes, on businesses, on agriculture. A lot of these farmers aren't going to be able to plant at all this year. And keep in mind this is a farm belt, which is also going to have major implications for navigation issues along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, too. The flooding is going to stay extremely high. Lots of crests are going to happen this week, guys. However, we think the rivers will stay in flood here for at least a week beyond that. And we could be talking about almost a month before the river is back to normal as it crests and moves all the way down towards New Orleans eventually.</s>VELSHI: Jacqui, that's some interesting information, and the fact it affects navigable rivers. So, that could affect things that you buy or get shipped to you, and the fact that's a farm belt, some of the farmers won't be able to grow things. We've already seen food prices pushing up. So, we'll keep an eye on that, as well as the flooding. Thank you, Jacqui. I want to show you a closer look at this compound that we've been talking about, where the most wanted man was hiding for the past few years. Let's give you a sense of the picture, Pakistan, Afghanistan. This is the area in the middle the sort of govern/ungoverned area. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan. Now, let me just -- let me just go in there and we'll give you a 3D view of this compound. We've removed the houses from around it. This compound was about eight times the size of the surrounding compounds, the homes really. They weren't compounds around it. This is in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The front wall, let me just give you a sense of the gates first of all. There are two gates. This is the front of the operation. This is the back. There's a gate in the front and a gate leading to the back. Now, I want to show you the walls because again, this is why we're calling it a compound. It had these walls that were fairly high. Up in the front, you had a 10-foot wall, in the back, you had a wall that was 12 feet and then 18 feet and 13 feet, and had barbed wire on top of it. Now, this is the main building. Call it a mansion or a compound, whatever you want to call it. It had a seven-foot high protective wall on the upper balcony, presumably to protect Osama bin Laden, who by the way is 6'7" -- so a 7-foot wall would take care of that matter. I want to give you a little more of a picture about these walls. That's the back wall. Let me show you what the front wall looks like. So, again, it's a 10-foot wall, one entrance along the front with a gate and then another 10-foot wall and then I'll give you a quick slightly better look at that house and the privacy wall. So, that's where the action took place in there. A nice big high wall, so if he wanted to get outside he actually could without compromising his safety. So, that's a look at the compound. We'll talk more about how those Navy SEALs got in there and what they did once they were in a special interview we've got coming up -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right, Ali. The scene of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil looked like a V-Day celebration, hundreds of people have been gathering at New York City's Ground Zero to mark the death of Osama bin Laden. President Obama will join them on Thursday. He'll visit the site and meet with the families of 9/11 victims. Our Jason Carroll has been talking to family members and he joins us live from the World Trade Center site. Good morning, Jason.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And good morning to you, Christine. You know, this morning, I actually spoke to a Lee Ielpi. He lost his son on 9/11, his son Jonathan was a firefighter from Queens. When I talked to Lee about what he was feeling, he said, you know, he's still trying to process everything that's happened. He said when we first heard about what happened with Osama bin Laden, he cried. And certainly, there was some tears out here last night. Also, some celebrations -- for the second night in a row, people coming down here, wanting to take part, and celebratory sort of activity that's happening. We saw a parade of bagpipers that made their way down Liberty Street, stopped in front of a firehouse that's located down here at World Trade Center. Many of those men were the first responders on that day and lost their lives. Those bagpipers stopped in front of the firehouse, played "Amazing Grace." Also out here some of the families of the victims were here. I want you to listen to two women, both of those women lost their sons on 9/11, Christine -- both of their sons were fire fighters. I want you to listen to what they had to say.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For us, it is, indeed, better late than never. I hope that Mr. Bin Laden had to experience the same type of brutal and prolonged death that nearly 3,000 people had to endure in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He will not live to inspire any more terrorists as a living person. And I must thank the United States military and the present administration and all those who assisted our country in apprehending Osama bin Laden.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was a coward. Osama bin Laden was a coward. The way he attacked innocent civilians was a cowardly act, and the way he was hiding out in caves in the years since, is a cowardly lifestyle.</s>CARROLL: Quick point I wanted to talk about, Lee Ielpi for just another second, Christine. You know what he said this morning to me, he said, if he gets the chance to meet the president when he comes here on Thursday, what he'd like to do is bring him down here and show him a flowering pear tree located in the middle of the memorial. He said, to him, that was a symbol of hope and new beginning -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Jason Carroll at Ground Zero -- thanks, Jason.</s>CHETRY: Also new this morning, the search resuming for a Boy Scout troop that went missing on a camping trip in Arkansas over the weekend. They still have not found the six scouts and two troop leaders from Lafayette, Louisiana. Bad weather prevented police from conducting an aerial search. There's no cell service in the area. But, again, they're going to try to resume that search this morning.</s>VELSHI: We told you before the break, Honda is cutting production on some popular car models like the newly redesigned 2012 Civic because of a shortage of parts stemming from Japan's earthquake and tsunami. The shortage will also delay the introduction of a new Honda CRV. That is the best-selling SUV in the United States.</s>ROMANS: And computer hackers may have hit Sony a second time, getting personal information on 24.5 million user accounts.</s>VELSHI: Unbelievable.</s>ROMANS: That's on top of the people we were telling you about last week. The PlayStation network security breach was revealed last month in which personal data and perhaps credit card numbers from 77 million accounts were stolen. You add in 24.5 million more, you're talking about -- wow -- you're talking about 100 million people.</s>VELSHI: I think the nerd hackers were all sitting around and saying we need a round number. The 77 thing is not playing very well.</s>ROMANS: Every time you say nerd hackers, you get flamed.</s>VELSHI: You know what? I do it specifically because of all of the nerd hackers who then tweet me and say, I can't believe you don't understand nerds, I bet you're not a gamer. I'm not a gamer.</s>ROMANS: And I'm sure Ali understands nerds.</s>CHETRY: You feel very strongly about this.</s>VELSHI: Yes, I do. I do. I lost a lot of information last week. So I'm mad at the nerd hackers.</s>CHETRY: So, you've changed your tune about the information -- about the -- you steal my information, just pay my credit cards, change your mind?</s>CHETRY: All right. Well, then you'll make some of your other Twitter followers happy. All right. Well, coming up, we are going to be getting an inside look at what exactly it takes to conduct a mission, the likes of what we saw in Pakistan. The Navy SEALs, what they did in this operation that eventually nabbed Osama bin Laden. We're going to be speaking with Dick Couch, Navy SEAL expertise and his training and what was it like to be there -- coming up.