CNN radio, I'm Barbara Hall,  a day allusions south Louisiana has led to a severe flash flooding, land forcement official in Lafayette and Parish are using boats, dump tracks anything they can to help stranded people evacuate,sheriff's captain Craig Stansbury says some 15 inches of rain fell in just 6 hours.

"There was the forecast of some heavy rain, but I don't think it could predict the amount of rain that was going to, that we weren't getting yet and in a short amount of time."

There are no reports of injuries.

We are learning more about the US army soldier accused of going door to door in Afghanistan's Kandahar province Sunday and gunning down 13 civilians, more than half of those victims appeared to have been children, CNN's Chris Lawrence is following the story for us from the Pentagon.

"This was the Staff Sergeant who were served three tours in Iraq, this is his first tour in Afghanistan, he'd only been in country for maybe or so, not much longer than that."

US military officials say the soldier will not face a criminal trial under the Afghan justice system and that any prosecution would be in an American military court.

A controversial new Texas law requiring voters to present personal identification before going to the polls has been blocked by the Obama administration, the justice department says the law could discriminate against Hispanic in other minorities.

We are on the eve of crucial primaries in the Deep South, Mitt Romney gets a big endorsement from a professional Red neck, Comedian Jeff Foxworthy already join Romney on the campaign trail in mobile Alabama today during a rain storm.

"The fact that you would stand here in this pouring down of rain to listen to the next president of United States proves that you are some of that if that get right."

New polls show Romney with a slide lead in Mississippi, Newt Gingrich has two point edges in Alabama.

And stocks finished slightly higher today, the Dow gained 37 points.

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