army corps of engineers all the way up and down the river. heather: we see pictures of the river half a mile wide in memphis -rpbgs through three miles wide. you get the sense that mother nature really is in charge here between the snow they've had in the north and all the wet weather you've had this spring. >> you're exactly right. we are fighting almost a two-front row in tennessee. we have the mississippi flooding in the western part of the state. last week we had a lot of tornadoes that resulted in about 38 fatalities in the state. not nearly what our neighbors to the south, alabama suffered, but 38 folks is still a lot. we are in the middle of a lot of cleanup in the eastern part of the state while we are battling the river on the west. heather: you're trying to get parts of your state declared a federal disaster ai area to get money kicked in there, how is that going. >> pretty well. we have about 15 counties in the west we've made the application