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photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. its a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from t...

>> and a very sad reality. thank you, ed lavandera. jennifer delgado has more information about how opening the morganza spillway today has already had a measurable effect on new orleans already. >> absolutely. earlier in the day we saw right around 16.98 feet. right now its pretty close to that, but you have to keep in mind thats minor tlood stafloo. well talk about how it affected parts of new orleans in just a moment. but as i zoom in for you, with he have this image coming in from the army c...