With rain looming and rivers cresting at historic highs, the Midwest faces the worst flooding in 15 years. Towns are being evacuated even as people rush to shore up levees with sandbags. We'll speak with Susan Staudt, public information officer for Cedar Falls, Iowa. Thirty-two year-old Ta- Nehisi Coates is a former Village Voice and Time Magazine reporter, but he grew up in one of the most violent cities in America, where crack cocaine was decimating young lives, the high school drop-out rate was climbing and a wayward glance could spark a brawl or a gun fight. So how did he survive? Coates credits his father, Paul Coates, who raised seven children by four different women, with helping him escape the fate of his friends who ended up in prison, on drugs, or dead. He tells his story in a new memoir called "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood." 80,000 South Koreans took to the streets in Seoul yesterday in the culmination of weeks of prot Less