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The folks down stream. look at all of the rain we had over that ten-f day stretch. a lot of areas picking up just under 20 inches of rain. thats too much. now this highlights the entire basin that sits here. so all the rain you see here has to flow down into the mississippi eventually. it can come from various different mace, the ohio river, the missouri river the arkansas river. they all at some point go back down into the mississippi. st. louis crested yesterday. so they are no longer going to...

>> im victor blackwell. missouri beginning its recovery after highway, neighborhoods, schools were flooded this week. >> alison is joining us live. has the rain stopped? and if it has, is the floodig still going to continue with over 200 rivers sitting at or above flood san dietage right n? >> thats right. it totaled 83 locations at or above the flood stage through the basin. and 11 of those locations, again, set flood record crests, just the highest theyve ever seen the flood locations ever to ...

Locations that we have that are at or above their flood stage. that number, over 270 of them. you can see its spread all across the midwest and also, parts of the southeast. now, this entire gray shaded area is the basin weve talked about for days now. all of the rain that has fallen in this area has to go somewhere and it ends up in the mississippi river. whether it comes from missouri river t arkansas or even the ohio rivers, they all at some point funnel back to the mississippi. st. louis cre...

>> reporter: fredricka, again, the floodwaters have receded in eureka, but now its just about all these homeowners trying to get their homes cleaned up, trying to get all of the debris packed away. weve seen dumpsters dropped off and thats really what its all about. hopefully all this stuff will get cleaned up and they can get on with their lives. but in the meantime, as you can imagine, pretty stressful. >> very stressful. its a lot of work. thank you so much, dan simon. so while those resident...

Make no mistake, she did not violate any law of the state of texas and she is eager to have her day in court. members of law enforcement in texas disagree charging her with a felony for fleeing with her son. if convicted she could face ten years in prison, that is 120 days maximum that ethan couch could face event when he is brought to the united states. he could get 10 years probation but that is only if the case has moved to a court would test and happened yet. is possible he could spend weeks...

Battle to keep couch in mexico. but when he comes back to the united states, the maximum he can spend behind bar is 120 days and 10 years probation, and thats only if the case is switched to an adult court. its possible he could spend just as much time in the immigration detention center in mexico where it all gets sorted out. the reports are hes not being treated any differently from any other detainees. he has to sleep in a common area and use a concrete basin to wash his clothes. he may have ...

Temperature for this year in beijing. single digits, overnight lows, chilly. then as we go into the latter portion of the week, thats when were looking at much colder temperatures. thats when well start to see the mixing in the lower levels. i said that there was kind of a geographic component associated with the pollutants that have become so very apparent especially in the last few weeks where theyve only had one other red alert. this is the second in as many weeks. youve got mountains to the ...

Basin. it does need something atmospherically to blow it out. there are ongoing problems because theres coal being burned to keep warm. now the temperatures over the next several days are on either side of the average temperature. just around five degrees. its not until thursday and then going through the weekend that we start to see those temperatures a little chillier. thats a double-edged sword because we are looking at colder temperatures. theres more coal that will be burned. at least there...

Took a group of media through this maximum security facility. its the first look at oscar pistoriuss private cell and the bathroom they modified in his block. he spent nearly a year here for killing his model girlfriend. he was released under house arrest. if he loses his appeal, he could be heading back. the prison boss told me they wanted to show us this because its not exactly five star accommodation, but the truth is, south african prisons are hugely overcrowded. in this part of the country ...

States and other allies are working closely with a variety of countries whether kenya to counteral shabaab or in the basin to counterboko haram. challenge is two fold. one, having the coordinated intelligence across a variety of different countries with whom we dont have multiple intelligence sharing agreements in order to find, fix and finish these various targets. and the second problem, frankly, is one of capacity and governance. most of these groups operate in areas that are large ungoverned...