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That technology our own. they work on it for decades and perfect it, now its back in our hands. dominic di-natale, thank you, islamabad, pakistan, on that breaking news. alisyn: weve been showing you these scenes of flooding as homes and farmland are intentionally waterlogged across louisiana cajun country but upstream folks in mississippi are fending off the rising tides as they have been for days now. jonathan serrie is live from greenville, mississippi. whats the situation jonathan? >> report...

Can give you 100% surety we wont have a failure. why? because theres things happening underneath that water that you cant see and underneath that levy. even though we have the strongest leees we ever had, theres a possibility we could have a failure. there is a possibility. >> i got to ask you this just on a personal note. im being honest here. when you said port allen. my mom is in port allen. she lives there. is there a possibility of flood or breach there? >> the breach, the most probable pla...

Using bonnie carey, but no one can give you 100% surety we wont have a failure. why? because theres things happening underneath that water that you cant see and underneath that levy. even though we have the strongest levees we ever had, theres a possibility we could have a failure. there is a possibility. >> i got to ask you this just on a personal note. im being honest here. when you said port allen. my mom is in port allen. she lives there. is there a possibility of flood or breach there? >> t...

There is a big dmeunit communit is going to get flooded from that water topping over and from back waters that is going come in from one of the tributaries. about 75% of the buildings are likely to be flooded diswhrarks is the big concern here. talk about the weather a little bit shannon. there is indications on the computer models that we will be talking about a lot of rain moving in later this week to area to the north of here. the same pot that got so much rain that caused -- the same spot th...

photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. its a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from t...

photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. its a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from t...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you cant take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get...

Breach of one levy or one thing that went wrong, it would be catastrophic with all the water that is out there on the mississippi and the various tributaries tonight. so that is what is in the back of peoples minds. nobody is relaxing at this point, and as you say, it is a slow-moving event. its not going to get to vicksburg until a week from today. so they are going to be under the gun, and they are going to be with a lot of concern for seven more days and nights. >> we were talking about this ...

Its expected to move in later tonight and in fact, there are concerns by officials here. there could be flash flooding. >> and the area thats affected is tennessee, arkansas, louisiana, southern illinois. were still looking at thousands of people who could still need to be evacuated in the coming days. >> reporter: right. and the real concern here is, of course, that so far, so far the levies and the system has worked as expected and hoped by many of the officials. but theres still that nagging ...

Side of the levy means everything in this flood. heather. >> kris gutierrez, thank you very much, well check in with you later this morning. bill? >> bill: chris, dan, everybody doing great work for us down there, day after day. >> so heartbreaking to see this for so many families. bill: it certainly is. in washington, the water is high there, too, folks, they are the latest newcomers to the budget fight. in a matter of hours a bipartisan group will try and tackle $14 trillion in debt. the so-ca...