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Water. u.s. army corps of engineers is front and center when flooding strikes. thats only part of its mission. casey why nan reports its having to do it all with less. >> reporter: for years this is how the army corps of engineers researched the impacts of flooding in the mississippi river delta, models built to scale to see what would happen, for example, if a barge tried to pass through flood gates. now its using high-tech tools such as this computer simulator providing a realistic river boat ...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. youre in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, im fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisianas biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. thats what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 1...

Engineers built an extensive system of levees to try to minimize that damage. thats not all they do. for years, this is how the army corps of engineers researched the impacts of flooding in the mississippi river delta. models built to scale to see what would happen if a barge tried to pass through flood gates. now it is using high-tech tools such as this computer simulator providing a realistic riverboat pilots view. by far the biggest change has been that we have gone from the types of models t...

How prepared was memphis for the flooding? >> well, fortunately, this was a very slow-moving disaster. so everyone here had plenty of time to watch it. they had a lot of computer models telling them what the river was going to do, how high it was going to be, where it was going to affect low-lying areas, and it performed exactly the way they thought it would. so they were able to be out in front, going and warning homeowners in specific areas that you need to get out of here, dont wait until the...

Areas and caught neighborhoods and caught houses and forced people into shelters. weve got several hundred people in shelters tonight, and theyre likely to be there for a while because all the water thats here is going to stay here for a while. its going to take weeks for all of this water to retreat back to where it belongs. there are some estimates that say the mississippi will not be back in its banks here, anderson, until sometime in june. >> wow. how prepared was memphis for the flooding? >...

Homes underwater and homes in the water, that have been in areas sometimes miles away from the mississippi, where this waters just backed up and the water went up in these low-lying areas and caught neighborhoods and caught houses and forced people into shelters. weve got several hundred people in shelters tonight, and theyre likely to be there for a while because all the water thats here is going to stay here for a while. its going to take weeks for all of this water to retreat back to where it...

Areas and caught neighborhoods and caught houses and forced people into shelters. weve got several hundred people in shelters tonight, and theyre likely to be there for a while because all the water thats here is going to stay here for a while. its going to take weeks for all of this water to retreat back to where it belongs. there are some estimates that say the mississippi will not be back in its banks here, anderson, until sometime in june. >> wow. how prepared was memphis for the flooding? >...

Thousand miles above the earths surface. this is a nice satellite image. you can see the bright white cloud tops here and what this is actually -- of a view point of high cloud tops by the cold temperatures. thats where they are so bright and you can see the sharp contrast of the front coming through. this was actually taken from outer space of the tornado outbreak that occurred. well, looking back at the tornadoes that was a threat we faced this week. now there is brand-new threat going forward...

There is a severe thunderstorm watch across west virginia. remember, a watch is important, too. it means a tornado or severe thunderstorm can occur, so you should be prepared. have your noaa weather radio on and always be ready with that disaster plan and also an emergency supply kit as well, just in case you do have to evacuate quickly due to severe weather. severe thunderstorms erupting now south of st. louis and the problem is as we go forward, over the next few days what were tracking here i...

But extending towards dallas, it has the cooler air in behind it. but guess what, this system wont move very much. as a matter of fact, there are computer models are suggesting as much as 10 inches of rainfall over the next week or so across this region. so, missouri in particular, st. louis specifically, you could see severe flooding that takes place here over the next week or so. also want to point out, whats happening there right now, this is -- this is just insult to injury, i will tell you....