spring. rob marciano is live in atlanta with more on why this is happening this year. hi, rob. hi, kiran, hi, john. set up east of the colorado rockies certainly lending itself to spring flooding. we're already seeing it. the storm system that rolled across the northeast didn't help the situation and the cold pack in the upper midwest not helping the situation for the folks around fargo. last year they had what they considered to be a hundred-year flood. this year they may have the same flood just one year later. >> reporter: in fargo, north dakota, residents are trying to stack 1 million sandbags in hopes of pushing back the red river, which could crest 20 feet above flood stage late they are week. last year, about 100 homes in the area were damaged and thousands of people were evacuated when the red didn't go down for a record 61 days and crested twice. in the northeast, a wild storm