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>> reporter: right now, were given a time frame, sometime between saturday, this saturday, and next tuesday, that morganza spillway will most likely be open. when it does all of that flood water will flow on the opposite side of that levy there and dump out into the gulf of mexico. the concern is in this low lie be community of stephensville and morgan city, that water will slowly backwash in this direction and flood out these communities. heather, back to you. >> reporter: thank you very much, ...

These satellite photos. on the ground tells you one story and this tells you another one. and some of the photographs were seeing, stunning. look at this, water surrounding the isle of capri in mississippi, the governor, haley barbour, urging people to get out if they think theres even a chance their home will flood. he says theres no reason to believe that a levy would fail but if it did, 107 feet of water would flow over small towns. 107 feet. wed like to see your pictures. dont put yourself i...

Does leave it will likely be the engineers who have helped expand the u.s. bases here and also maybe some of the support people. but in terms of combat fight he, the guys who actually pull the trigger and the day to day in patrolling afghanistans land, there will probably be very little changeover. jenna: conor powell live from kabul, conor, thank you. jon: this fox news alert. they are preparing for the worst in the south, as the flood waters keep on rising. fourteen counties in mississippi now...

That casino lobby. as we pan further to the left, its kind of interesting, we note that the casino is actually floating, that blue part of the building is the casino where the gambling takes place and that is on fellowtation devices so its actually above the water right now, spare thank casino part. so lets go to the video of the tuni counter a cutoff, its devastating there. we saw the pictures in the lead-in, and we heard from the mayor. it is a terrible situation. that water crested 14 feet ab...

By the time they go back to their homes, theyre wondering what theyre going to have left to work with, if anything, because of the way the water is just sitting here and very slowly later this week, to start moving out of here. >> what kind of problems are they seeing on the levies right now? >> reporter: the levies have a mix of problems but nothing the army corps of engineers didnt anticipate. theyre seeing seepage underneath. they say thats normal and are taking care of it as they see it. som...

And as you watch this, anderson, we took an aerial tour. im in tunica county. de soto county is the next county to the north heading towards memphis. the sheriffs office took us up. it was amazing what you would see. you would see water hundreds of yards, sometimes as much as a mile away from the river, land that is supposed to be dry. it is park land, farm land, it is places where people hike and take trails and go out with eir horses, under water. people that have lived here for 40 years say t...

Im in tunica county. de soto county is the next county to the north heading towards memphis. the sheriffs office took us up. it was amazing what you would see. you would see water hundreds of yards, sometimes as much as a mile away from the river, land that is supposed to be dry. it is park land, farm land, it is places where people hike and take trails and go out with their horses, under water. people that have lived here for 40 years say theyve seen nothing like it. we saw one piece of the lev...

That is supposed to be dry. it is park land, farm land, places where people hike. people say theyve seen nothing like it. we saw one piece of the levy, the army corps of engineer rushing in dirt, seeping water underneath there, getting to the side where the farms are. they think they have it under control. the most heartbreaking thing we saw as we came over a neighborhood, its known as the cutoff, because its at the end of a road. there are 330 homes down there. all 330 of them under water. many...

County north. it was amazing what you would see. you would see water hundreds of yards, sometimes as much as a mile away from the river, land that is supposed to be dry. it is park land, farm land, places where people hike. people say theyve seen nothing like it. we saw one piece of the levy, the army corps of engineer rushing in dirt, seeping water underneath there, getting to the side where the farms are. they think they have it under control. the most heartbreaking thing we saw as we came ove...

Of them in shelters around the memphis area right now. by the time they go back to their homes, theyre wondering what theyre going to have left to work with, if anything, because of the way the water is just sitting here and very slowly later this week, to start moving out of here. >> what kind of problems are they seeing on the levies right now? >> reporter: the levies have a mix of problems but nothing the army corps of engineers didnt anticipate. theyre seeing seepage underneath. they say tha...