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The problem is now, the water has gone completely over that roadway. we road on that roadway just two days ago. now it looks like it's a lake that is out there. that's disrupting commercial traffic. it's also disrupting emergency traffic. and that's the problem for the town of eagle lake. which is kind of like what we saw there in david mattingly's spot, in that you have a community of well over a thousand people that have been totally evacuated. the area is completely isolated with one exception, the main route in is now riding on the main mississippi levy. not the usual form of transportatio...

show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. that's the edge of the river. it's rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississippi crests near here next tuesday many of the homes could be underwater. dwayne moved here four mont...