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Even places where they sought to be safe in these evacuation centers are now being evacuated. this is an unfolding situation. youre going to be hearing about this in the next couple days. the other part of the good news here. the storm is starting to speed up a little bit its up to 8 miles an hour, the storm was crawling at 2 to 3 miles an hour for a while. its starting to hit the gas pedal, lets get rid of it, the damage is done, all these flash flood warnings that are in effect. even after the...

Way down towards louisiana as it eventually spills into the gulf of mexico. so the flooding is going to be ongoing. in some cases we wont see river crests well into next week. so st. louis, mississippi river at st. louis will crest today. but again january 5th, well into next week were starting to see rivers crest as they continue to rise. there is the future radar. not much rainfall in the forecast. here we have showers and thunderstorms along the gulf and florida. really great news here is tha...

That flooding. that river cresting at its highest ever level today. and its likely going to rise about another foot or so by tomorrow. we have a pro-locked period of ongoing flooding across some the lower areas. or at least not in the mountain areas. boulder, i think some of those places are going to calm down a little bit. take a look at the pictures though that are out of here. this showing, i believe this is one of the highways, but im not sure if this is a live shot or not. let me know in my...

Express rails were shut down. but the flash flooding has abated because the rain has ended. but were seeing the river flooding. let me show you. heres the flood threat. every place here that you see in green is a flood warning showing you where we are seeing flooding. in places like illinois, record flooding at a dozen river gauges. in indiana, one river cresting at its highest level in a half century. so thats where we have the flood threat still. were going to see a cresting effect and a casca...

both democrats and republicans are waiting to hear his proposal, and, of course, so are you. millions of americans out of a job and looking for work. in a matter of minutes, one of the people closest to the president who advised him on this very plan will join me live, with you, first, i want to begin with a fast-moving situation right now. in pennsylvania, really across much of the northeast, the floodwater is rising. people have to get out. more than 100,000 ordered to evacuate. i wa...

Were going to continue to see the river cresting in locations as we go through the remainder of this week and potentially into saturday and the water levels are going to remain potentially high for about a month you. mentioned how the u.s. is recovering and really dealing with the wheat industry. were also going to talk about how the high level of the mississippis also affecting the economy. were talking about the transport. roughly 500 million tons of cargo actually moved along the mississippi ...

soldiers, shes visited the stadium where in 1920 british troops opened fire on a crowd watching a gaelic football match. 14 people were killed. the flood-swollen mississippi river is slowly pushing toward the gulf of mexico, threatening more towns along the gulf in the united states. local residents arent taking any chances. so far nearly 9,000 people have evacuated from the flood zone. a television journalist who went missing in syria three weeks ago is safe and is returning home....

Greenville. jonathan? >> the river cresting at just over 64 feet, the highest since the great flood of 1927. the difference being this time the levees held fast keeping the rest of the city of greenville completely dry. of course, shep, its a very different story for folks living on the other side of the levee. right now were at on lake ferguson, which used to be a bend in the mississippi river. this neighborhood over here is along south lake ferguson road. thats the american legion post with th...

Area of the mississippi river. as i zoom out and we talk about louisiana, as i close this for you, and this right here is going to give you an idea when were going to see some of that water coming from the morganza spillway. for sunday its going to get very close to the area of interstate 10. that is a very heavily traveled road. it goes from lafayette to baton rouge, and with that water coming in, we could potentially see some of that actually causing some travel disruption. as we jump ahead to...

Climbing and its surrounding the whole house right now and many of the homes in the neighborhood. its above to that basketball hoop as well. the strange thing is seeing the wildlife as well. we are seeing many critters here. and we are trying to move towards and give you a better perspective, we are talking about the river cresting on thursday. you might have the impression that somehow its not happening, and its not happening yet, and the army corps of engineers tried to shore up the levees, an...