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Are grappling with trying to harness a river which by definition you can't hold back mother nature. >> no. i mean it's sort of like trying to grab hold of a snake. it wants to wriggle its way out. >> all right. andrew, thank you for joining us. the senior vice president for conservation for american rivers. thank you, sir. ali and keeren. >> >> poor ali, why should i make you talk about spanx. you don't have any need for them, do you? >> i don't use them. i don't know much about them. >> they're basically a girl's best friend when it comes to looking nice in your clothing, hold some stuff in, ...

Reaches out, talks as far as i know to every local entity that's interested in what they are doing. >> now, of course, the flood is expected this time to be of historic levels above the 1927 flood that killed 500 people and left 700,000 people homeless. the army corps of engineers says the devastation is not expected to be near that this time because of that levee system that they have built and fortified over the past several decades. back to you. >> casey wian, thanks. coming up in a few minutes we'll speak with andrew fallen, an advocate for healthy waterways says the levees should be our...

Water. engineers trying to manage and contain the water with a system of levees and flood gates that were in some cases created after the last big one back in 1927. but is the answer really to just set the river free? joining us now is andrew, a senior vice president for conservation for the american rivers movement. what are our choices here? we're looking at a system, andrew, welcome to the program, that's really been tested since its creation, its whole creation back in the '20s. are we learning we should have other lines of defense that aren't blowing up levees or opening flood gates? are ...