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>> now some farmers have been hit with a double whammy, catastrophic flooding. president trump approving $19 billion in disaster aid but for some, its too late. cnns dan simon is in the state of missouri. >> where are we this exact moment? >> were directly over my field. >> reporter: adam jones is a fourth generation family farmer. his fields which would normally be sprouting corn and soybeans have turned into lakes. >> its pretty amazing to think that you might be in a tractor today, youre in a...

First it was president trumps trade war with china and now it is near historic flooding. farmers in missouri are in crisis. they are struggling to make ends meet. cnns dan simon spoke to a worried missouri farmer. >> reporter: where are we at this exact moment? >> we are directly over my field which i was going to plant soybeans in this year. >> reporter: adam jones is a fourth generation family farmer. his fields which would normally be sprouting corn and so i soybeans have turned into lakes it...

>> dan simon, cnn, old monroe, missouri. secretary of state mike pompeo is downplaying the potential impact of climate change. how the secretary says modern society could adapt to environmental changes. >> andshes celebrating her bir today. even though it is not really today. well take you to london. when you book at hilton.com, you get the price match guarantee. so if you find your room at a lower rate, hilton is like... were gonna match that rate and give you an extra 25% off. what would tra...

Right now authorities are still investigating. cnn reached out to the hotel and police. we havent heard back, john. >> what a story. martin, thank you very much. happening now, evacuations near st. louis as the mississippi river swells to near record levels. dan simon is live in st. louis with more. look at that behind you, dan. >> reporter: hey, john. with all the punishing rains the mississippi river continues to rise around the st. louis area. th this is a flooded out roadway. 40 roads have...

This since 1993. poppy, jim? >> gosh. dan simon, im glad youre there. thank you very much. were going to keep watching this. its not just st. louis. this is happening all over the midwest. it keeps getting worse with the rain that keeps coming. well stay on it. this is in phoenix, arizona. and in that carrier is 75-year-old woman who is injured while hiking. she needed to be air lifted off the mountain. all of a sudden things went very wrong. >> it had to be miserable in there. you see the baske...

Something like that in the days ahead? victor? diane? >> dan, thanks so much. shortly after the district attorneys announcement, stef stefons fiancee spoke out. >> she said her heart has been broken a second time now. >> i march 18th, 2019, stephon clark, my fiance father of my two sonds wes were shot to deat two sacramento police officers. my family was turned upside down. today, the d.a. announced that the officers who shot my unarmed fiance wont face any charges.

Lawsuit, a $20 million lawsuit against the city of sacramento. so this will continue in the legal arena for some time. and were just going have to do see what happens here in sacramento in the hours and days ahead. dan simon, cnn, sacramento. >> dan, thank you. in the background you saw the protesters in dans report. the news also hitting clarks family very hard. there are reports that an ambulance was called to his grandmothers home on saturday, you can see the video here taken from our affilia...

South sacramento neighborhood of meadow view. two officers. they thought clark had a gun and pursued him into a gun, firing 20 shots at him. he was carrying only a cell phone. watch. >> show me your gun! shots fired. >> cnns dan simon joins us now outside the police department. how is the city of sacramento reacting to the d.a.s decision not to charge those officers? >> reporter: well, hi, we will see how the community reacts in the hours and days ahead. you can see that a protest is now taking ...

Wrongful death lawsuit against the city of sacramento, so this will continue in the legal arena at least for sometime. in the meantime, we will continue to watch what happens in the hours and days ahead. obviously, when this first happened a year ago, you had a whole wave of protester and protesters shut down the sacramento kings basketball arena. will we see a repeat of something like that in the days ahead? victor? diane? >> dan, thanks so much. shortly after the district attorneys announcem...

Filed in that shooting. dan simon explains. >> reporter: we are in sacramento watching to see how the community reacts to the district attorneys decision. you can see some protesters have gathered here at the sacramento police department. for the most part, things have been peaceful. at one time we did some protesters burn some police flags. but, obviously, a shooting that the sacramento shooting. 22-year-old african-american male stephone clark that police thought was breaking into cars and fol...