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Realities of the newly forged rails cover a distance of thirty four kilometers and connect john a poor in southeastern a par with jayanagar in the indian state of bihar its hoped the project will increase business and pilgrimages for years nepalese politicians have been promising to add new train lines across the mountainous country both india and china have been competing to build them. connecting. by trains india has. overtaken john. obviously because they have already moved down the tracks an...

A golden river system. the splash protect us slips into the boiling hot bronze but its recovered again quickly no damage has been done. every second around sixty kilos of prongs flowed to the base of the caustic.

Where the lake dumps into the river system -- gulf system, that is the most dangerous, east part of new orleans that normally flood when we have high tides like we have now and thunderstorms. so we got a lot of work to do because this storm still has a vote and they can trick you. theyre not necessarily going to do what the weather man says. >> we know back in august there was flooding in new orleans. they had issues with their pump systems. at this point, there are still a number of pumps that ...

>> the american consumer saves from lower transportation costs, and this is the lowest. less than half of the cost of rail, 90% cheaper than moving by trucks. >> and working locks are vital to keeping costs down. they essentially act as escalators, lifting and lowering boats, and connecting parts of a river that would otherwise be unnavigable. according to the army corps of engineers, 80% of our river locks are about to exceed their design limits. >> we need a reliable lock and dam infrastructur...

From lower transportation costs, and this is the lowest. less than half of the cost of rail, 90% cheaper than moving by trucks. >> and working locks are vital to keeping costs down. they essentially act as escalators, lifting and lowering boats, and connecting parts of a river that would otherwise be unnavigable. according to the army corps of engineers, 80% of our river locks are about to exceed their design limits. >> we need a reliable lock and dam infrastructure to have reliable river transp...

Emergency spillway, until engineers found erosion in that as well. so the operation behind me is part of a larger respiratiopera make sure people are safe. there are emergency workers lined up all along this river system and downstream from the river system, helicopters that will be looking for people. the evacuation that was put into place sunday night remains that way. 200,000 people evacuated and those people will remain under evacuation until engineers can prove that the area is safe. that w...

You talk about remediating the damage that haste been done but this is an entire river system. you will go all the way out to the colorado with this flow. how do you essentially vacuum up the sludge and silt settled on the bottom of an entire river system? >> i believe it will be very difficult and extremely expensive. hopefully what will occur. to the extent it can be treated it will be treated. the rest of the heavy metals settle into the sediment and dont present a problem to those who are us...

Maybe it doesnt quite look like this. like buffalo. but its tough to imagine today every single part of the u.s. plummets to below freezing. im even talking about states closest to the equator. florida, hawaii. you couldnt escape the chill either. chad myers is standing by. i know this is january, but come on. this is unusual. >> this is probably a once in 20 year event. >> wow. >> when it gets this cold for this long in so many places, people die. i want you to take precautions. make sure the p...

Traffic moving. but its insignificant. six to eight inches of snow you can see here that has fallen on the ground. heavy, wet spring snow, a big pain in the neck. serious trouble in illinois and missouri, down the river system. dealing with flood condition there. all of the moisture making its way there. tomorrow, as the week goes by. just truly hard to get your head around that this is not the middle of the winter in wisconsin, but may 2nd. out here today in wisconsin and im still not used to i...

Jim, paint the picture for us. its pretty dire out there. >> take a look, this is st. louis. were just below or just north of the famous gateway arch. this is sort of a boat terminal here. usually not under water. today under about five feet of water above flood stage. you can see how high this water has come up. similar circumstances here on the mississippi river. especially in these lower riverside communities. yesterday we were on another river, the illinois river, where we saw several of the...