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>> what kind of problems are they seeing on the levies right now? >> reporter: nothing that the army corps of engineers didnt anticipate. theyre seeing seepage underneath. they say thats normal and are taking care of it. some of them have been impacted by this flood, theyre seeing what is called sand boils, where water goes through the earth underneath the levies and percolates up on the dry land and creates these areas where water is seeping up on the dry land. left unattended, that could erode...

Spillway opens. we have a time frame, any time between this saturday and next tuesday. matt, i want to talk to you real quick if you can pause. when that spillway opens up how can it potentially affect your home? >> if it opens up, well get a couple of feet near the house here. that would be the worst, you know. >> the worst case scenario. >> but if they open the locks and we dont get no rain -- >> lets have our camera guy spin around. what i want to show you guys back in new york, theres actual...

Mississippi alone. as for the nesbitz family, for the time being theyre going to move to one of their barns on higher land. alisyn: steve, are we right that it is expected to get worse there before it gets better? >> reporter: it is going to get worse. its really just a foot here. you can see as tom pans up here, this is really a physical demonstration of just how bad it can be, the water could rise all the way over this levy. that topped out last time in 1927. they expect it to be worse this ti...

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The swollen ohio and mississippi rivers are meeting up, and the concern right now, actually, looking at what has happened, in some of the key areas like cairo, illinois, you saw the flood waters drop about a foot, in most places the flood waters just stopped going up and the estimated crest is going to be about 3 feet lower than it could have been at its worst and theyre hoping it will be enough to keep these towns dry. the problem with this system, where they blast holes in the levy, ultimately...

Mitigate the damage downstream. >> that alleviated waters in the small town of cairo but there are other issues to deal with. jon: if your farmland is under water youre not happy with it. mike tobin is live in metropolis, illinois. >> reporter: this is a pretty typical scene you can find anywhere at the rivers edge where kentucky, illinois and missouri meet up. the good news is that the flood waters in these areas seem to have stabilized since the army corps of engineers made that somewhat radic...

A look at the photos of the damage. if you want to help, go to fox news.coment. we have a list of organizations that are trying to make a difference there in that area that was so badly ripped by that tornado. jenna: a little student hidden pride there. jon: student pride, role tide! >> jenna: calling bin ladens death an act of national defense. more on the fallout and what it means for the war in afghanistan. plus massive flooding in the midwest, the army blasting a levy to ease pressure on s...

Where the southern tip of illinois meets up with missouri and kentucky. this particular machine shop, they saw the watters rising and they got all the equipment mighter saw up high. they turned off the power. you can see one thing here, they are counting on the idea as we look band saw, water is only going to come up another couple of inches. thats because of holes blown in the levy that let a pressure off of the water. people counting on it, the idea if we havent seen the crest of this flooding...

Distrust between the afghans and pakistanis, because afghans just simply believe that pakistan has caused many of the problems here in afghanistan, and continues to fuel the insurgency here in afghanistan, that u.s. troops and afghan troops are fighting every single day jenna. jenna: very interesting stuff. conor powell, live in afghanistan. its interesting jon because you talked to congressman mike rogers yesterday who said to us that he really believes, at least part of the pakistani governm...

Gets a little high. the waters are reaching historic levels so they built this refy kind of with a safety valve to it and this is the safety valve. this is detonation cord, attached to an explosive, these will go inside the hole and attached to the pipe there is and these pipes run the length of the levy. theyre filling these pipes with a chemical agent that will act like on explosion. kind of by standing on this levy, were sort of standing on a big bomb. when they throw the switch, all of this ...