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the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor ji...

Floods continue to wreak havoc in the united states. lets go to our meteorologist, general tejennifer delgado. jenn? rain overnight in areas that dont need precipitation. as i show you on the radar in the last several hours, we picked up rainfall and stronger storms moving through parts of the midwest. the rain is coming down right along the mississippi river flows. now, will this affect the current levels with the flooding? really? its not going to be enough precipitation. but keep in mind so...

More ferocious than ever. >> we can see all of the swirls and ebbs and flows, thats really an anomaly for this particular area. >> reporter: the flood walls and levees held in memphis sparing one of the largest cities along the river but now the flood surge is upon tunica, mississippi, where some families are now in shelters, evacuated as the river swallows the towns lifeblood, riverboat casinos and their homes. >> we love it here. we dont want to leave here. we want to go home and were going to...

At harrahs casino in tunica. businesses are shut down. as illinois and missouri clean up, further south flood preparations are in their final hours. >> now is the time to be going out there, securing your property, making evaluation plans, thinking about where you want to go. >> while the national guard evacuated 1,800 people around memphis, residents gathered across the city to watch the water rise. the u.s. army corps of engineers opened 28 bays of the bonnet carre spillway. >> weve had water ...

As im bringing chad meyers in, he has explained to me, that we know that, look, the mississippi river is not the cleanest place in the world, and pesticides, et cetera, and i have been to pontchartrain and covered the tarballs back when that was an issue, right, and people love the pontchartrain and swim in pontchartrain, and how will this affect peoples summers? >> well, every time the spillway is opened, you do have flows from the river obviously that go through there and that carries a lot mo...

Feet per second at the latitude of the old river control structure, and that includes both the flows of the mississippi and the red river. the basin floodway is designed to carry about half of that, about 1.5 million and the morganza is a major outlet which flows from the mississippi to go into the atchafalaya basin. so from the morganza and the red river flows and at maximum design flood would be designed to carry 1.5 million cubic feet per second. >> well, tom, we are talking about the differe...

Confident? >> well, you know, we have had high water on the mississippi before. certainly not at this levels. these are record flows. and every time you have a high water, you certainly have to go through a process of monitoring the levee systems. theres always some seepage to be expected generally in the earth and levee systems and you manage the process by inspecting the levees and inspecting the seepage wherever you find it to control pi control it. and so that the confidence of the levee sys...

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Minl. first it taps individual donors. these are often the richest of all al qaeda funding source, its also people who believe if they fund jihad with someone else doing the killing on their behalf, that they themselves will get to go to heaven. charities infiltrated by terror groups are another revenue stream. they used to account for 60% of all al qaeda funds. one relief organization was actually headed up by bin hads brother-in-law. krim activities are a third source, they which you credit an...

World, is too much flowing into those economies? >> no, i think theyre facing two separate problems, they have to deal with both. it is overheating, which would be there whether or not they deal with the flows. much of whats happening is domestically driven. they have to use the standard tools of policy. interest rates, fiscal contraction where needed. you have to be careful, they see risk building up. they may have to use capital controls. but really the issue is overheating, it comes from the ...