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things. floods from the mississippi river are heading their way. mandatory evacuations are in parishes. they are from the spillway. four flood gates are open to divert the mississippi floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans. ed is joining us there. ed is at the scene for me. are a lot of people panic stricken? >> i think a lot of people knew it was coming, quite frankly. we are in the town cross springs, which is downstream from the spillway opened up yesterday afternoon. really, ...

before all that plastic surgery. well show you the photos that michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillway was opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. in they communities in the basin could be under many feet of water and force many people from their homes. this is what it loo...

photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. its a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from t...

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their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators wont think twice about grabbing a human. lets go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? >> reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriffs deput...

freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning -- were talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. well have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. im t.j....

River, 14.1, so many areas up and down the mississippi, under the gun for major flooding. many areas affected by this. as chad mentioned earlier, with all that fresh water coming in from areas right in the basin, that is going to cause problems for the oysters. the farmers there because theyre used to the saltwater. thats the other part of the story. >> lets see, katrina, rita, the oil disaster, and now this. >> cant get a break. >> the oysterman and fishermen in louisiana cant get a break. than...

Orleans. and from the moreganza spillway, what can we expect from there? >> reporter: we heard an announcement from the army corps of engineers and it will begin to be opened up 4:30 p.m. eastern time. in three and a half hours time you will see two to four of these gateways here behind me open up the mississippi river, beginning to flood on the plain behind me. and overall, as many as 3,000 square miles of this plain, this basin could be covered by up to 25 feet of water. and its going to be a ...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you cant take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get...

And slowly to greenville, vicksburg and big concerns about some of the spill ways they believe theyre going to have to open up and could flood millions of acres of farm land down around areas of louisiana and the next piece that were going to watch. and quickly, look at how much rain the next few days and it stays through the north of here and that helps matters, certainly for people who are evaluating and we wont see any significant drainage, additional drainage of the water in the basin and la...