week began opening several gates in the morganza spillway in louisiana, taking pressure off baton rouge and new orleans, but again, that water has to go somewhere, and it was diverted to some other communities. anywhere from three to five inches of rain, meanwhile, could hit the mississippi river valley today. some started the crest earlier than anticipated in some of regions. jean is in natchez, mississippi. it was raining earlier on you, jean. it looks like that stopped for now. that's something. >> for the time being it has, t.j. this river higher than it's ever been in recorded history, 61.8 feet. for a while they were worried it could get even higher. you see on the pavement they put down a marker for 65 feet. it's far short of that, thank goodness, but they made preparations for it here in this under the hill part of natchez, they built some temporary levees here. you can see those. i was told there were more of them and they were even higher, but they were so heavy the road