By Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison Mississippi Today Dec 21, 2020
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In this June 11, 2015 file photo, Former Gov. William Winter, right and Myrlie Evers, activist and wife of the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers talk prior before a news conference in Jackson. The former governor, a Democrat who pushed to strengthen public education and improve race relations, has died. Family spokesman Dick Molpus says that Winter died Friday night at home in Jackson. Rogelio V. Solis Former Gov. William Forrest Winter, widely respected for ushering sweeping reforms of Mississippiâs public education system and for his commitment to achieving racial equality, died on Friday evening. He was 97.
>> reporter: did it turn her into a little bit of a tomboy? >> i wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. of course, she could do anything she put her mind to. >> reporter: toni bertolet grew up with her two brothers around natchez, mississippi. the epitome of the old south. she was ambitious academically and athletically and yet -- did toni embrace the hair and the makeup and sort of the things that you would think of as a southern belle? >> we went to ole miss i mean, it's coat and tie and sunday dresses for football games. >> reporter: no sweatpants? >> no, no. >> not to go out. >> she would never go out in public in sweatpants, never. >> reporter: toni did have one flaw when it came to being a belle. >> when i first got to college, she felt like, you know, i was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit. and so she decided she was going to come over and cook some fried chicken. >> reporter: well, mississippi's the place to be for that.
inches of rainfall, even 10 would be the minimum for baton rouge. same for natchez. you're still under that high risk of flooding. not because the water is going to get in the mississippi. the water doesn't go into the mississippi from new orleans, unless it's pumped there. goes into pontchartrain, goes to the spillway into pontchartrain and finally back out. but this is the problem. two reporters ago talked about the co meet river, it's somewhere around a foot and a half where we should be. that's the level. because it hasn't started raining yet. fred, this river is going to go to 34 feet. that means in the next day-and-a-half, the two days this river is going up 34 feet from where we are now. and at times, it may go up 5 or 6 inches per hour. and you're not going to be able to get away from that river if it goes that quickly. you need to take the precautions now, if you're along the river. and if that number means
we can start to see those rain bands forming, which we haven't seen in a while there there's been dry air shutting it down. most of the energy and most of the rain was just south of that out in the gulf. but now we're starting to see some of those rain bands forming here the good news, if there's good news at all about this storm, which is not good news for most people in central louisiana into mississippi, but for new orleans, there is good news in terms of rainfall. the bulk of that heaviest rain talking upwards of 25 inches will be west of new orleans. the problem is places like in between new orleans all the way to baton rouge and southwestern mississippi in places like natchez. these areas will be dealing with the worst rain and also the worst river flooding here. likely flash flooding. new orleans could get flash flooding, that is possible for streets and highways but in terms of the indunn
we've been talking about how the water is very high along the mississippi, this is everything that feeds down past new orleans, this is the mississippi river delta. if we recall, there was a ton of snow across the upper midwest. heavy rains in the center of the country. that is all funneling down across the entire country. all of that has been working its way to the south. so no surprise here. that water is very high. already sitting close to 17 feet. the forecast, 19 feet, a lot of the levees are between 15 and 25. we'll be very full and close to breaching the levies. it's going to be close. >> shepard: looking up river, natchez and greenville, mississippi, already very high. they've had a lot of flooding there. this will make it worse for everybody. >> yeah, that's right. that is such a huge area here where we're talking about. this is all working its way downstream. you said it, this system running
you know, we needed the extra wide receiver during the backyard football game and she had to oblige us >> reporter: did it turn her into a little bit of a tomboy? >> i wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. of course, she could do anything she put her mind to. >> reporter: toni bertolet grew up with her two brothers around natchez, mississippi the epitome of the old south she was ambitious academically and athletically and yet -- did toni embrace the hair and the makeup and sort of the things that you would think of as a southern belle >> we went to ole miss i mean, it's coat and tie and sunday dresses for football games >> reporter: no sweatpants >> no, no. >> not to go out >> she would never go out in public in sweatpants, never. >> reporter: toni did have one flaw when it came to being a belle. >> when i first got to college, she felt like, you know, i was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit.
into a little bit of a tomboy? >> i wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. of course, she could do anything she put her mind to. >> reporter: toni bertolet grew up with her two brothers around natchez, mississippi. the epitome of the old south. she was ambitious academically and athletically and yet -- did toni embrace the hair and the makeup and sort of the things that you would think of as a southern belle? >> we went to ole miss i mean, it's coat and tie and sunday dresses for football games. >> reporter: no sweatpants? >> no, no. >> not to go out. >> she would never go out in public in sweatpants, never. >> reporter: toni did have one flaw when it came to being a belle. >> when i first got to college, she felt like, you know, i was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit. and so she decided she was going to come over and cook some fried chicken. >> reporter: well, mississippi's the place to be for that.
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days ahead but officials at arkema say they expected this to happen. they know this will play out and they knew that these chemicals were going to degrade. this is organic peroxide in the containers and they are not been cooled for several days. they knew they would degrade and then probably heat up and catch fire. and they say the best course of action right now is to let the fires burn out. anderson? >> so -- and you're in beaumont. let's talk about what residents are facing there. serious problem with drinking water. what is the situation with that right now? >> well, we thought there might be some cause for optimism earlier, a few hours ago when we were told they are at about 10% capacity of pumping out water, the ability to pump out water, and that they hoped to have the water on tonight. but indications are that they may not get their water back tonight. i spoke to a local official who said that what they are being told is that the amount of water that they are pumping into that treatment facility behind me from the natchez river through