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Livestock has been killed off in these floods. you have formers that are already struggling and they cant plant in flooded fields. weve heard from the farmers say theyre not going to farm. >> shepard: mike tobin, thanks very much. lets bring in crystal. she and her family had to leave their home. this is a photo. the one that you can see in the foreground. this is paradise lakes, a neighborhood south of omaha. crystal, youre hoping to get back in there this week. is that right? >> we were initia...

>> the corn husker state has never seen such widespread devastation with swollen rivers, failed dams and levees, so many farms are flooded that 70% of the state are now under the umbrella of a disaster declaration, the american farm bureau farm bureau says bankruptcy among farmers went up 19% last year and now nebraska where damage has reached almost a billion dollars, farmers can plant in flooded fields. >> i wont be able to farm at this year, there will be no farming. >> iowa also hit hard wit...

We are keeping our eyes on what is happening with the mighty mississippi as water from the bloated river inches closer to the top of the main levee. if it breaches that levee thousands more acres of farmland could suddenly become swampland, jon. jon: from flooded fields to streets and roads underwater now homes and buildings in parts of louisiana also inundated. rick leventhal is live in amelia, louisiana keeping an eye on it for us. >> reporter: we are just outside morgan city about a hundred m...

Wilmington and points north like new bern. were not seeing a lot of damage around here. we are seeing in south carolina a little more than 150,000 power outages. we are heading is into columbia and that is where were expecting maybe some flooding. three years ago, 15 people were killed after flooding there and a lot of that infrastructure, some of the dams, they still havent been repaired. actually, theres some flooding right here. this is the kind of thing were seeing. flooded parking lots, flo...