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Acres, 3,000 square miles will be flooded, a tide heading towards the gulf that is supposed to move well west of baton rouge and new orleans. by tomorrow, the army corps predicts the water will be about 25 mile south and a foot or more deep. by monday, 50 miles, and by tuesday, the ineccorrable wave should reach morgan city, a town of 11,000, where flood preparations have been under way all week. all told, up to 25,000 people in the new flood zone will be affected. farmer ted glazer is one of th...

Guard may have to shut down shipping traffic on the river. with 12,000 ships carrying 500 million tons of cargo annually and 700,000 cruise passengers, new orleans is one of the busiest ports. closing the mississippi would be costly. >> every day that this river is closed, its detrimental economic consequence not to new orleans but to the entire united states. its $295 million a day, and it grows exponentially after the fourth day. >> reporter: the mississippi was last closed in 2008 when a fuel...

They exist. >> reporter: the mississippi is cresting now near helena, arkansas, over 250 miles north of the morganza spillway. officials in louisiana know they are in for a period of acute anxiety as they try to manipulate the third longest river in the world. >> this is certainly going to be a marathon, and not a sprint as woe go through this tremendous amount, huge amount of water as it comes down. >> reporter: the situation is increasingly urgent. >> theres still tremendous amount of stresses...