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Made this spains worse summer for wildfires in more than a decade packed passenger bus slammed in a capital city. six people died. dozens more hurt. police saying early indications the bus driver ignored traffic signals. india. hundreds of villagers now homeless after downpours triggered flooding in a northern state. the heavy monday stiewnel rains damaging crops. rising water flestles a river flowing behind the iconic taj mahal enhancing the view and attracting hoards of tourists. taiwan. ♪ >...

Sightings were also reported in illinois and wisconsin. researchers in wisconsin have a fish tale folks will be talking about years to come. they were conducting a survey on wolf river when they hauled in a monstrous sturgeon. the fish is over 87.5 inches long and weighs over 240 pounds. its believed to be 125 years old. it was tagged and returned back to the river. it was a day at races for spalding university students. the kentucky school held the 40th annual running of the rodents. this y...

>> >> great movies to share with mom this mothers day. what do you think about your favorite movies out there. e-mail us or find us on twitter. ff weekend. >> dave: love actually for my wife. and now memphis still wading with the battle with the rising mississippi river and the citys mayor warning residents in low lying area to evacuate as the community faces what could be a large scale disaster and joining us live from memphis, our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is getting a better look at ...

Meteorologist rick reichmuth is live on the scene with the latest. hello, rick. >> yeah, long stretch of land across the central part of the country will be dealing with flooding. images like you see right here, in the neighborhood you can see. the significant flooding going on here. that break back there was a swimming tool area. you ku see the top of the fence. off toward the left. childrens playground. to give you an idea of how deep the water is and how quickly it goes down from the embankme...

>> its unbelievable if you looked at it on a map. >> this cnn i-report sent to us from steven gibson in memphis, parts of the city as weve been showing you are under water. about 300 people are in shelters this morning and the flooding, this is clear. weve been hearing this from everybody. it is expected to get worse before it gets better. one big area of concern in tennessee is mud island. the mississippi is so swollen its causing the wolf river to flow backward and spill over it banks. >> join...

For help. you even saw an alliance last week, where you had one large tunica casino, harrahs, give all their food to a shelter and a church. thats not a marriage you see every day a casino and clutch joining together to help people. >> can i ask you about this notion of the mississippi getting so strong, the tributaries are moving backwards. it sounds like an apocalypse, but that is happening, the mississippi so strong, so much force, rising, that its backing up the tributaries. are you seeing t...

With pressure. in tennessee, the water is fl flowing backwards in some of the tributaries to the river. homes, businesses and factories all in danger. >> joining us is melissa moon of cnn affiliate wreg. shes live in memphis. whats the situation over there? >> reporter: we are in harbortown and mud island, were on the wolf river, which is a tributary of the mississippi. it is rising daily. what used to be much of the bank is now part of the river. people living along here have been told to be re...

Responders in tennessee, the flood-ravaged south, fearing theyll find more bodies in tennessee after flood waters reveal more victims, rapidly rising waters from a weekend of more than a foot of rain, can you believe that, blamed for the deaths of at least 29 people across the southeast. seventeen in tennessee alone, including ten in heart--- in hard-hit nashville. >> some people only left with the clothes on their back. >> ive lived here all my life, i have never seen it this bad. juliet: lets ...

Holder from the justice department. jon. jon: that flooding in tennessee, it has forced the evacuation of more than 300 inmates from a nashville jail. as emergency responders fear they will find more victims after flood waters recede, revealing more bodies, potentially. rapidly rising waters from the weekend rains blamed in the deaths of at least 29 people, 18 in tennessee alone, including ten in hard hit nashville. the national weather service says the swollen cumberland river, cresting at leve...

They were doing some construction here. that truck actually sitting at about 11 1/2 feet of water from what were told. theyre working in an area known as the wolf river greenway. this is a park where people come out, walk, run and jog on a daily basis, its right next to a major thorough fare and a major neighborhood. the concern right now is with the amount of water thats in the wolf river, actually backing up into some of the trib u tears, into -- tributaries, the drainage areas and the neighbo...