[Susan Hendricks, Cnn Anchor:] Happening right now.
[Unidentified Male:] Some people are calling and yelling at us and worse. And other people are calling and wanting to buy a ticket.
[Hendricks:] An uproar in Arizona. A county Republican Party looks to raffle off a handgun very similar to the one used in the mass shooting that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Also, a CNN exclusive. Documents found in Libya that could prove damaging to the U.S. And speaking of Libya
[Unidentified Female:] Instead of saying Gadhafi, Gadhafi all the time especially to avoid attracting attention from local Libyan, between ourselves, we called him "Daddy."
[Hendricks:] One of Moammar Gadhafi's former nurses shares details about her life with the deposed leader only to CNN. And this
[Unidentified Male:] If there's something anti-Mexican about what I said, then I apologize for the anti-Mexican-ness of it.
[Hendricks:] Was that an apology? Comedienne Katt Williams tries to explain his rant targeting Mexicans. I'm Susan Hendricks at CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta in tonight for Don Lemon. Great to see you. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. Wow, look at that. This is Tropical Storm Lee as it slams into the Mississippi coast. A group of people tried to keep that boat from being battered to pieces against the pier. It was a no-go losing battle. The waves were just too rough, too big. By morning the vessel was like this, upside down with huge holes in the bottom but the men are OK. The men who tried to save that boat. Tropical Storm Lee is slightly weaker tonight. Top winds about 50 miles per hour. It is packing a lot of rain. Hardly moving at all. Slow going. Right now, it's hovering over the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi. Nearly 40,000 customers were without power earlier on Saturday. But about two-thirds of them have electricity again. The governors of Louisiana and Mississippi have declared states of emergency for several parishes and counties. Parts of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans are under a mandatory evacuation order because of the flooding threat. The mayor of New Orleans has warned residents to brace for a long ordeal from this storm, up to 20 inches of rain could overwhelm the area. An iReporter who lives on Lake Ponchartrain sent us this video as the storm engulfed that area.
[Gerard Braud, Ireporter:] Here on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain and Mandeville Louisiana, as you take a look out, you can see that the water is overtopping the seawall and the yards are starting to flood, especially in the low-lying areas. Of course, everybody along this stretch of lake anticipates flooding of this kind. So all the houses are raised about 15 feet above sea level. The houses will be safe but the yards and streets are starting to flood.
[Hendricks:] Yes, that is what we expect to hear a lot of over the next day or so. Water and lots of it flooding. CNN's Ed Lavandera has been tracking the storm's impact in a place that was almost wiped off the map six years ago by Hurricane Katrina.
[Ed Lavandera, Cnn Correspondent:] Residents along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi where we are here in Waveland, Mississippi, kind of feel like they have taken on the worst of Tropical Storm Lee. We're here on the beachfront. This is the Gulf of Mexico. You can see just how choppy and churned up tropical storm Lee has made to this gulf waters. That's obviously still a very dangerous and treacherous situation out there in those waters so emergency officials urging people to stay out of the water. Don't get on the boats. No reason to do that. But you can see just how powerful the storm surge was just a few hours ago. This is the beachfront road here. All of this sand, you see here, was on the beach pushed up by the storm tide here just several hours ago. But one of the good things that we've seen in various parts of the low-lying areas where we've seen floodwater gathering is that the waters are quickly dissipating. We were just a few blocks away or a few miles away in the town of bay St. Louis where we saw we were told thigh-high water had reached in some places under some people's homes. But over the course of several hours, that dissipated. So that is the good news. But this is still very much a slow-moving storm. And, of course, anytime you talk about these storms coming through the Gulf Coast, it's a very emotional thing. This is Waveland, Mississippi, where we were was absolutely devastated almost six years ago to the day Hurricane Katrina threw through here. It changed this town forever. In fact several residents here are telling us that only about a third of the population has ever returned back here to Waveland after Hurricane Katrina. In the grand scheme of things, they also know that this storm is nowhere close to the power and fury that Hurricane Katrina had brought here. So they're kind of taking all of this in stride. They made their preparations but really they are just considering this storm just a big rainmaker, and that rain continues to push its way inland. And emergency officials say that the threat for more flash flooding still very much exists over the course of the next 24 hours further inland, north, not just along the Gulf Coast shore but up further north into the Louisiana and Mississippi, as well. Susan?
[Hendricks:] All right. Ed Lavandera in Mississippi, thanks so much. Jacqui Jeras at the CNN Weather Center with what this is expected to do overnight. And as Ed said, it's a big rainmaker.
[Jeras:] They certainly don't need it there. President Obama will be in New Jersey tomorrow because of Irene. Jacqui, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Now a CNN exclusive. The collapse of Moammar Gadhafi's regime is revealing Libya's secrets to the world, including supposed agreements to accept prisoners from the U.S. and the U.K. for interrogation. Libyan authorities left stacks of files behind when rebels forced them out of Tripoli. Our Ben Wedeman has looked at these documents. He explains what he saw.
[Ben Wedeman, Senior International Correspondent:] They didn't have the much time to shred many documents in the headquarters of Libya's main spy agency. In fact, most of the contents of the building are intact. It all amounts to a treasure trove of information about the shadowy world of cooperation between the world's spies. [on-camera]: We're in the basement of the Libyan External Intelligence Agency. It's like being in the basement of the CIA. And here we've got access to all sorts of documents. Letters, faxes and other communications between the CIA and its Libyan counterparts. Top secret documents, secret documents with names and dates and all sort of details that some people probably don't want to be made public. [voice-over]: And that relationship was, it appears, cozy. Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights watch photographed hundreds of documents from external intelligence run for years by Moussa Koussa who fled Libya last spring.
[Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch:] Moussa Koussa was on a first name basis with the CIA and MI-6. There's Christmas greetings in here. There's documents saying thanks for the oranges you sent.
[Wedeman:] The U.S. and Libya were at odds for years, but relations warmed dramatically after Libya renounced its program for weapons of mass destruction in late 2003. When Koussa started corresponding with then CIA Director Porter Goss. Libya eagerly signed up for the U.S. Global War on Terror, but just how eager is made clear by the documents uncovered in Tripoli.
[Bouckaert:] They established conclusively what we've been saying for a long time, that the CIA was capturing and rendering people to Libya so they could be interrogated by Libyan security. We even have the CIA questions they send to be asked to these suspects that they rendered to Libya.
[Wedeman:] One of those sent by U.S. officials to Libya was alleged Libyan Islamic militant Abdelhakim Belhadj, also known by his
[Hendricks:] And our thanks to Ben Wedeman for that exclusive report. Coming up, GOP presidential contenders hit the trail this weekend, along with a former governor who is not officially in the race but sure knows how to draw a crowd. Yes, we're talking Sarah Palin. But first, a handgun raffled that has a lot of people upset. We'll tell you why. That's next.