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The areas have not seen it crest. one of the cities cairo which is part of the southern part of illinois, that bridge there has been shutdown, and it is closed, the problem is that it is going to be causing a 90-minute detour, if you are planning to go around some of the area. again, as we mentioned, system of the cities have yet to see the highest amount crest. cape j cape girardeau, and january 3rd is when they will crest, and cairo on january 49, more moisture will be floating down the missis...

Across the board, most of these jobs are going to minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, will that really help people? we have this huge food fight regarding that is not enough to live on. >> we talk about income inequality, and i think you see it crest in such things as occupy wall street, but i think the confluence, were seeing growth come back, okay, well, the economy is actually growing relatively well. wall street is doing remarkably well. but there is this problem, which is the gains are not being d...

Jobs are going to minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, will that really help people? we have this huge food fight regarding that is not enough to live on. >> we talk about income inequality, and i think you see it crest in such things as occupy wall street, but i think the confluence, were seeing growth come back, okay, well, the economy is actually growing relatively well. wall street is doing remarkably well. but there is this problem, which is the gains are not being distributed at all. and you had a...

Battered the region, flooding streets, knocking out power to some 30,000 customers in southeast louisiana. jennifer is monitoring all of this as well as the flooding in the midwest. she is live in the severe weather center. whats going on? >> hi, zoraida. of course, still following the flooding as well as the tornado. that tumouched down in new orleans. still many areas are at threat for major flooding. areas in illinois and missouri, especially right along the mississippi river. we focus on the...

Being with us, the morganza spill way opened four floodgates, 39,000 cubic feet of water, every second, being diverted off of the swollen mississippi river. and is enough water to fill an owe olympic sides swimming pool every 20 seconds and, they are trying to keep the level of the river down so bigger cities, baton rouge and new orleans are not as badly affected thats smaller towns are, so that is an ongoing process and we still havent seen it crest yet. >> heather: thank you very much, rick, w...

Fredricka was just saying, those floodwaters there are only still rising. they have not yet crested like we have seen farther upstream. thats the scenario. its kind of like a wall of water pushing in. it starts to the north with the mississippi. and this wall of water just has to go somewhere. its like filling up a bathtub. you hit the top, theres nowhere to go but over. heres the record flooding. flood warnings means flooding is happening or is imminent. on may 11th, this is when were going to ...

Of field street in downtown memphis with part of the mississippi river. it washed over its banks and into this area. conditions even worse in some neighborhoods. suburban memphis neighborhoods as you talked about, entire communities swallowed by the floodwaters. more than 300 people are already in area shelters, more than a thousand yesterday were warned by emergency officials going door to door that they needed to get out and move to higher ground. as you talked about, close to 3,000 homes are ...

>> reporter: its a beautiful day. good morning to you. one thing we just learned is that they are stopping barge traffic on the mississippi. this is a thoroughfare for a lot of interstate commerce. that may be the last barge to pass through here over the next eight days. officials say that because they displaced so much water some of that water is going up and around the floodwall behind me here in memphis so beal street where it intersects with riverside is flooding. were about 45 feet at this ...

Vermont. you have a chance of showers today. dry. feeling a lot like spring, 68 and sunny. forecast in the middle of the country, a few showers and storms. not expecting any severe storms. the big story, the flooding on the mississippi river. this is going to be a disaster. we have hundreds if not thousands of property under water that will only get worse. look at the bottom of your screen, vicksburg, mississippi. you wont see it crest for another two weeks, a slow painful process, one of the gr...

Issued. fargo has crest. it might fluctuate just a little bit, but it crest yesterday evening. showers and windy weather conditions, as ive mentioned, thats going to kind of hamper things. the crest at fargo, 38.5 teet. grand forks down river, theyre expected to crest at wednesday morning at 50.5 feet. sometime early wednesday morning. previous floods have taken it in excess of 54 feet. were still looking at flooding. its still going to be a problem. they closed bridges, portions of highways and...