expected to stay had high for days. life up and down the mississippi river has become one of survival and a torturous waiting game. nine states are affected. millions of acres flooded. tens of thousands of people have lost their homes an thousands more are about to. david mattingly joins us downstream in nach chtchez, mississippi where the flood is expected to crest on saturday. the army corp of engineers is keeping a watchful eye on that yazoo levee but the backwaters are already claiming property. what s the situation where are you? reporter: the situation is the same thing we ve seen all up and down the mississippi. right now we are waiting for the crest here just as we ve seen a little further north, just as we saw last week in memphis. the water creeping up to that crest, that historic level. right now all eyes are a little further north of here on the mainline levee along the mississippi here in the state of mississippi. the army corp of engineers addressing what they re call
to be. right now, fighting this mississippi is a game of inches. for instance, this levee i m standing on right now having that water six inches down means a lot of less pressure near the top of the levee, where it s most vulnerable. right now the army corps of engineers is vigilant, watching for problems up and down the mississippi, addressing a problem right now to the north of here on the main line levee here in mississippi. what they re looking at is a problem where water s been getting under the levee and possibly eroding part of that, they ve been dumping a lot of the dirt on it, dump truck after dump truck going into that area. they re saying it s not a breach and they re not in danger of a breach. get used to this. as long as this water is this high, we re going continue to see problems as the flood goes on. and, david what about those who are about to lose their homes and businesses? do you have any idea how many
more we re talking about, having looked at so many in the thousands who have lost homes? reporter: 4900 of mississippi, and thousands more to the south of us in louisiana, the flood is not done yet. when you talk about people losing everything new york place epitomizes that more than where i m standing now. this levee was not built with taxpayer money and it s not maintained by the army corps of engineers. this levee was built by one family, as they try to protect their business that was started a century ago. five generations of the jones family here have been running a lumber company and the only thing separating that lumber company from this high water right now is this levee. they have been working on it constantly, the problem now is making sure it stays in one piece and they re giving it everything they ve got. listen. we re trying to keep this thing going for the community, you know, and for this these
educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america s interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don t like, the regimes we don t like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn t talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is saudi arabia. but he also then went on to talk about ways to consolidate these revolutions, talking about the arab-israeli peace process. he s tougher on syria than he has been. he was more explicit in his support for two states, israel and palestine on 1967 borders, plus mutually agreeable land swaps. so very comprehensive. i have a feeling though that while it will be well received in the regio
a check on the latest and some stories that you may have missed. donald trump just announced a short time ago that he will not run for president. trump issued a statement saying the decision was not easy especially because he says my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the republican contenders in the polls. he then goes on to say, however, business is my greatest passion and he s not ready to leave the private sector. but despite trump s claim about topping the polls, a new survey from politico and george washington university indicates more than two-third of americans think the business mogul had no chance of ever winning the white house. those numbers follow a similarly poor showing for trump in a cnn/opinion research corporation poll released last week. that surveyed showed trump has an unfavorable rating of 64%. floodwaters from the mississippi river are pouring across southeast louisiana. this is the result at the army