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For more on awlaki, remember, he speaks good english, full coverage on the death of osama bin laden, awlaki, the rest of what survives of al-qaeda today at foxnews.com. theres great informs online. pictures and video, the latest on the mission, the reaction over here and overseas and what is next for the war on terror as we continue our coverage here. remarkable day yesterday and it continues yet again. alisyn: absolutely, the news keeps coming. there is so much information to tell you about. ...

Mississippi river, pouring through a gaping hole. in ledbetter, kentucky, evacuations are flowing. other >> reporter: another home attempted to sandbag but lost the fight in this area of mississippi and there are many homes in this direction. to minimize the scenes like that the army corps made that radical step of blowing the levy and turning about 130,000 acres of farmland into a muddy pond but so far, the mississippi is down 1 foot in key areas like cairo, illinois, they expect it to drop abo...

>> shepard: just incredible. the last thick you want to worry about is money but you have to. what is this going to cost. >> mayor maddox told me just to clean up the debris is going to cost somewhere between 70 to $100 million just in tuscaloosa. you can imagine that across a 600-mile swath from southern mississippi all the way up into tennessee and parts of virginia. shep, this is going to take billions of dollars to fix. >> shepard: billions of dollars. john roberts live tonight in tuscaloosa...

Towns levies sparking fears that it may fail. the river section pecked to rest at more than 60 feet, a record high. get this, the army corps of engineers is now debating whether to blow up the levy downstream and that would end up flooding farmland elsewhere but would probably save cairo, illinois. a severe weather weekend from floods around tornadoes in the midwest to wildfires in texas. crews there struggling to get 16 major wildfires under control. they burned more than 650,000 acres. the win...

Salvation army just two of the many volunteer service organizations down in the storm zone trying to provide whatever they can to help. >> people see the shield, see the canteen, and they receive hope and that is what they need at the moment. >> of the 7 southern states hit, alabama took the hardest blow. wednesdays storms killing at least 249 there. and the death toll rising to 35 in mississippi where a monster twister hit smithville. part of operations include the use of cadaver dogs to search...

Had the water running over the levy in some 30 other places. thousands have been evacuated and nobody is quite sure if they can hold the levees back, so people not being lewd back in their homes. finally now to cairo, illinois, where theyre getting ready for the flooding to come, in fact, the army corps of engineers, you see the water flooding -- flooding in there, is considering purposeple breaching the levy down in missouri and flooding farmland to try and save cairo and some other towns in il...

Meet in less than a couple of hours now about when they might start letting those 1000 residents who were evacuated in the southeast part of the town early this week return to their homes. police saying if theres someone who has an immediate medical issue or needs to get back in right away, contact the police department, arrangements may be able to be made. take a look. we have changed our protective gear within the last hour to give you a new look at some of the flooding. its still a huge issue...

I dont think the virgin project has a chance. >> consider that gauntlet thrown by the crew! theres to much depth that the scientific community is hoping for a solid reusable research vessel to get down and explore what lies below our oceans because only 3 percent of the entire earths seafloor has actually been mapped. bill. bill tbhoil kidding? wow. a lot to see. thank you. phil keating is in the bahamas. alisyn: this is a fox news alert, because we have have -- we have to tell you that police i...

Of relentless rain in that area. the community along the black river is no stranger to flooding so folks there do know the dangers can happen when a levy breach unleashes. >> i think its worse, right in here. i believe its worse. >> this could be eimminent danger within minutes. if the levy was to break, you will have very, very short time to get out of the way. >> you dont know when its going to be over to get back in, so you take all your clothes and just the -- do the best you can do. shannon...

Triggering heavy rain and flood waters breaching that levy in poplar bluff, missouri, flooding homes near the black river there. missouris governor deploying the national guard to get people out of their homes. weve had more than 1000 families evacuate, praying there are going to be homes to go back to: >> coming out of the house, i had at least 3 1/2 feet of water to wade through to get to the vehicle. >> im searching for three different family members, im going to go to one of them. >> im ever...