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Runs the only fresh grocery store in the ninth ward. people come in every day, they get the same things. once the pandemic started in new orleans and in so many other places, many of his customers were getting laid off. they worked in the big hotels downtown, tourists werent coming. they lost their jobs, and these were people with very little, you know, income or they had no savings, and they suddenly did not have enough money to buy food. so peoplbegan coming in to burnells store and asking if ...

They shattered the record of 7.82 inches. the river is cresting at 42 feet which is the third highest. the weird part of this storm it is happening in december. typically we see the mississippi river and its tributaries start flooding in the springtime with snow melt. we dont have any of that. that is why this is quite a rarity. there is the last 48 hours. were watching mississippi river valley. the good news we have a period of dry weather today through the next five to seven days. but the floo...

>> right. this is really in terms of flooding a 100-year flood, and we have those warnings from the mouth of the mississippi all the way on up into where the mississippi meets up with the ohio river. were talking a lot of rainfall, but especially tend of april. so far this year weve had twice the amount of rain in some ever these locations like in pa cue d -- paducah, kentucky. of course, major flood stage, mississippi at memphis, were now at 47.82, and, of course, 48 is what were expecting to s...