river, the missouri river, the arkansas river, leading to the mississippi, no surprise that we have flood watches around warnings across this region. the arkansas has been getting beat up really bad, all of this running into the mississippi and, eric, it is looking like over the course of the next week, even if we don t see a ton of rain today, rain is still on the way. this will be an ongoing issue. eric: adam, thank you so much. one spot under siege in the country is arkansas, massive flooding is continuing there. let s bring in judge dennis gilstrap frogilstrap. parts of your town have been under water for a week. how is the community coping with that. we ve been over a week, from the time the predictions that we was going to have historic flooding, down the arkansas river, drainage out of oklahoma, the one thing that we ve been blessed is we had the first three, four days as we was
way, you kne see a number of buildings under water, just the tops are sticking up. then you have structures that are totally submerged that you can t even see, like the lock and dam system itself. so that means no boats, no commercial barge traffic is obviously getting through here. now, take a look at this video just shot from a ride-along with the sheriff who took us through some of the hardest impacted areas in and around conway where we are and neighboring mayflower, arkansas. home after home taking on serious water. sandbags on roofs, up to windows. some folks adding height to the sandbag mounds as the water levels just keep on rising. but despite such loss and the historic nature of this flooding, the sheriff tells us he sees a silver lining here. you wonder why these things happen and this may be exactly
arthel? arthel: and we turn to weather now. thousands of homes across the midwest are under water, after weeks of relentless storms. officials in arkansas are going door-to-door, warning residents to leave for higher ground, as major rivers swell to their highest point in years. we have fox team coverage, meteorologist adam klotz is on deck with the forecast. but first let s go to casey seegal who is in conway arkansas where the flood watters continue to rise. waters continue to rise. you talk about the evacuations. most of them are not mandatory. they are voluntary, and they are going door-to-door, advising folks of the danger and also warning that if something goes wrong, they may not be able to access them. so but as we see during hurricanes and other weather events, a lot of it is up to the homeowners themselves. now, all up and down the very swollen and fast-moving arkansas
residents fleeing to higher ground. casey siegal is live in conway, arkansas. the pictures are devastating. i know from covering such disasters in person it s even worse. what are you hearing from residents there? reporter: arthel, really the images don t translate fully on camera, when you watch it back. but to be standing here and to hear the water rushing around you and to have all of the sights and smells, it really doesn t do it justice. and what is so astonishing is how widespread of a problem this is. i m going to hop out of the way now. we keep showing this over and over throughout the day, but it s just so difficult to wrap your mind around. look at the arkansas river, out of its banks, clearly, and it has the ferry lock and dam offices up there, almost submerged, up to the garage doors there. and then as my photographer just continues panning down along the
are apprehensions. not everybody coming over the border is apprehended by law enforcement. eric: 100,000 apprehensions. over a million people a year. it s not sustainable. it s a crisis. it s hard to believe that our own political environment out of washington is not willing and prepared to deal with this. clearly, the mexican government does not want these millions of migrants that are coming from central america to stay in mexico. they re kind of flowing them through. they are definitely part of the problem. they also have to be part of the solution including the central american countries that these people are coming from. eric: maybe they ll get the message a little stronger now. short-term, i it s the u.s. consumer and u.s. companies that will pay the price. eric: thanks for your insight. arthel: entire communities in arkansas now under water after historic flooding sweeps the state. levy failures along the arkansas river sending water gushing and