Levee Explosion News Today

This system of hef vlevees we h. were talking about 3,700 miles overall. where the river has crested here in the boot heel of missouri. were going to zoom in. we already heard about the first levee explosion that took place at birds point. that was up in missouri. these arent levees that were going to explode. these are going to be, like, gateway systems and spillway systems theyre going to open up to move that water. the first one, this has already been approved. the bonnet carre spillway. tomo...

Going on with the levee. >> reporter: well theyre -- which is just extraordinary. were at pretty much the missouri/illinois border where the mississippi and ohio rivers meet. and theyre both swollen beyond compare. so were seeing an extraordinary event, for sure. the president has declared this area a major disaster to open up some funds for these folks. yesterday as you mentioned, i went out with the usgs team of scientists to measure the flow, get an up-close look at the levee that was broken....