Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110506:16:03:00
Commercial traffic due to that high water. high water also shut a 20-mile stretch of westbound i-40 in arkansas. the crest at memphis earlier next week may be the highest since 1937. question, why is this spring shaping up to be one of the worst flood seasons in decades? chad myers has a few ideas. chad, why is this happening? >> big snow pack, very heavy snow pack. frozen ground. and then this graphic behind me. this is basically 21 days or so of rainfall across the midwest. can't see the scale there. i'll get back to it. there's white, purple, and pink. now we're talking states. kentucky, te...
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