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Night. >> you dont have to tell me. >> we appreciate you sticking with us. what is it, our eighth year together? >> yes. >> its our eighth year together. so great, i love you. way to go. >> you cant swear. give the check back. >> its been a lot of fun. wherever you are, if youre with a loved one, by yourself thank you so much for spending the night with us. our coverage though continues 2015 is yet to come in new orleans, in memphis, brooke baldwin and don lemon are going to handle that for us. ...

California got way more than they bargained for. 22 people had to be rescued after the ride hit a tree branch and left them literally hanging 20 feet off the ground for hours. >> we were riding on the jet stream when we saw the ninja go into the trees and it was just a lot of leaf noise and then cracking noises and crashing noises and a lot of screaming. >> four people were hurt. thankfully not seriously. and rescuers lowered each person from the ride one by one to the ground. today the ride is ...

You head out the door. cold in many other places as well. this morning like in memphis where we are at 24 degrees 27 at atlanta. you are below freezing across portions of the southeast and further west into sections of texas. in minneapolis feels like 10 below zero in chicago. it will be getting colder in parts of the northeast. coming up in the moaning hours we will see windchills dip down below freezing. we have the cold air going over parts of the relatively warmer waters. that actually produ...

Nbcs mark potter is live for us in memphis this afternoon. one of the areas that had been hit pretty hard. mark, whats the scene like there and how are folks dealing with the storm? >> reporter: well, i think you said it right there. most people are just sort of dealing with it here. thats what we can tell. a lot of people are staying inside. its pretty cold, 27 degrees. this is the famed beale street in memphis. the roads are clear. earlier there was a big crowd down there as people were walkin...

11 there. we have 35 in minneapolis. 27 in rapid city and as you can see, 60s across the mid atlantic. real quickly today, its going to be 70 later on in memphis. almost 80 in atlanta. here in the big town of new york city, topping out at 50. 83 in tampa. all right. from tuesday morning to monday night football. >> last night, might have nodded off in the third and fourth quarters. let me tell you what happened. less of a game, more of a clinic for the patriots taking on the kansas city chiefs. ...

Their properties in expectation. the big news on the mississippi was they shut down that river to navigation around natchez. they ransom test barges. they were concerned about the wakes hitting the mississippi side and louisiana side and causing damage to the buildings. they did some test tows, now barge traffic can come back and forth past natchez and vi dala. one barge at a time in. a day you have 600 barges coming by. weve got gridlock there. baton rouge is expected to crest todd and tomorrow...

Images we are seeing now. security forces killing civilians in the streets. and youre going to see a heroic effort to try to retrieve a mother and son lying in the streets. just the latest disturbing scenes from the uprising thats left hundreds dead. also, ill speak to the wife of a political activist. an activist herself. her husband has been taken, arrested. she doesnt know where he is. or whats happened to him. shes now in hiding, but shes determined to speak out. she wants her voice heard. ...

Scenes from the uprising thats left hundreds dead. also, ill speak to the wife of a political activist. an activist herself. her husband has been taken, arrested. she doesnt know where he is. or whats happened to him. shes now in hiding, but shes determined to speak out. she wants her voice heard. a watery state of emergency throughout the south. the mississippi river cresting at a record level in memphis. flooding on the move. well get a live update from martin savidge in memphis, next. [ wom...

Across the south, the lower midwest, about 3 million acres of farmland are flooded tonight and the waters are still rising along the mississippi river. heres what it looks like in memphis, leaving as many as a thousand properties under water. the flooding is moving steadily south. take a look at vicksburg, mississippi, historic town hit hard by flood waters. the river hasnt crested there yet. st. mary parish, theyre piling up sand bags to save the church there. some 26 parishes in the state have...

Thats not floating. and what they are doing here is to use these portable bladders or aqua barriers to fill them up with water from the river and use that as pretty much the sandbags and creates almost a watertight seal and done a good job to protect the gold strike casino here, and the best part of this technology is environmentally friendly, and you flush out the water when you are done and pack them up on trucks and get them out of here. sandbags obviously a little bit more work and little bi...