> reporter: it's such a rough year, we had all the floodings across the mississippi river, now it's the missouri river, there's been record breaking rainfall and so much snow across the rockies and all of that drains into the missouri river and goes back into the mississippi river again. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
> reporter: it's such a rough year, we had all the floodings across the mississippi river, now it's the missouri river, there's been record breaking rainfall and so much snow across the rockies and all of that drains into the missouri river and goes back into the mississippi river again. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies." property="og:description">
> reporter: it's such a rough year, we had all the floodings across the mississippi river, now it's the missouri river, there's been record breaking rainfall and so much snow across the rockies and all of that drains into the missouri river and goes back into the mississippi river again. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
leaving her apartment for the final time that night as she headed out. coming up we're going to speak right here on "america live" with lauren's father. he will tell us how it's going and the latest in the search for his daughter. that's coming up. let's get you to this for a moment, though, extreme weather alert out there. crucial steps are being taken right now to protect two nuclear power plants in nebraska from the massive flooding that is going on there. the utilities running both plants are working to shield the facilities from the rising missouri river. meanwhile the national guard soldiers protecting the stress levees -- look at this disaster, what a mess, and a tough time for these folks here. chief meteorologist rick weymouth joins me now in the fox extreme weather center with the latest. >> reporter: it's such a rough year, we had all the floodings across the mississippi river, now it's the missouri river, there's been record breaking rainfall and so much snow across the rockies and all of that drains into the missouri river and goes back into the mississippi river again.