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Of the southern explosion releasing some of that water out of the flood way. later theyll do a third hole in that levee and make a crevasse there that will free things up a little bit. this has been designed for this. as the usgs, the army corps of engineers and the nature conservancy will tell you every river needs its flood plain. >> the river system needs its flood plain. the flood plain is part of the river. thats the low lying areas adjacent to the river. during high water flows it would na...

Up that part of the levee last night, the river has dropped significantly, by at least a foot, maybe more than that, since that. so there has been significant pressure released. take a look at that video. its extraordinary to think for all the levees we have across the river systems from the canadian border down to the mississippi to louisiana, to keep the water in, now were blowing them up to relieve that pressure. we have put so much manmade object strucks in the way of our river systems to ge...

Try to cool that reactor. so as you say, nature has taken its course and caused the damage on the one hand. and now the manmade, if you like, or the manmade follow on trying to deal with the situation that is now already a nuclear emergency in this country. becky. >> so were talking here of leaks and small explosions. to your mind, and you may have been speaking to those who are experts in this. do they have things under control, effectively? >> under control is a difficult situation. were heari...

Not as much rain as we saw earlier in the week but the ground is saturated and snow melt trying to get through the larger river systems. the strong storm earlier in the week is ejecting in the plains and seeing severe weather across parts of southern arkansas. temperatures warm up in new york and chicago. a mild system is. tomorrows highs will be warmer than that. its going to be a fairly wet weekend as we go through this part of the world so if youre making plans for saturday in the east missis...

Continues to crest. the death toll is also climbing. officials are saying 1,248 people. the u.s. has dispatched a disaster relief response team. i spoke with the leader of the team about the scope of this disaster. >> this is a disaster of, frankly, almost unimaginable proportion. in living memory, there hasnt been flooding in all three river systems at one time. so this is a huge disaster. having said that, pakistan has a great deal of capacity because beginning back with the earthquake in 2005...

Enkrimted, that file would be coming from the government of released. obviously, its something here pakistan? we have had a lot of criticism, -- the people at the pentagon the government isnt doing enough, and the flip side of here are concerned about. that is we have heard people but they say they are on good legal standing in saying they reporting that perhaps groups want these documents back, and that are sympathetic to the taliban are managing to they dont want anymore distribute aid, which ...

The state? >> for the may day flood yesterday, we had, i could say its more than dozens, its probably not hundreds, but its getting close. >> any of the rivers that are still cresting that are going to be getting worse throughout the day today? >> absolutely. we expect some of the creeks crested last night, although theres more rain coming so they could go up again and when we see all of this runoff reach our major river systems well see more flooding from our major rivers. >> have there been an...

And there will be breaches and thats what theyll be battles over long term. balloting over nice weather, right now, ironically. no rain in the forecast for the northern plains, but warm temperatures certainly cranking things up as far as snow melt is concerned. check out these numbers and that includes the west coast. 91 at the wild animal in san diego, 85, ucla, and billingses, getting into the 07s and even caribou, maine, 54 degrees. a lot of folks seeing warm temperatures and that will be the...

>> reporter: many had to hef the front door by boat or heavy equipment. youre at the breaking point? >> i cant get to my cat right now and its upsetting. >> reporter: a lot of people want to blame el nino but it was something that happened in the atlantic ocean, the os lags pours cold air one after the other. we saw that the eastern two thirds of the country the snow pack hung around for a long time. this is the water equivalent of the snow pack, bright purple is 5 to 10 inches of watt aer equiv...

Surge and the flooding. and with this storm, yes, its category 2, but the storm surge and the flooding is going to be that of a category 4. the storm has incredible momentum, and its been carrying that with it for days now. and it doesnt just go away because the winds decrease a couple miles per hour. thats staying within the storm. thats going to push all of that water inland. were still going to get the storm surge of a category 4. if you say your home can withstand the winds of a category 2, ...