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declare a major disaster. governor brian schweitzer joins us on the phone from the state capitol of helena. what happened? this kind of flooding is rare, right? >> montana is peak snow country. the missouri river, the longest river chain in the united states, 70 percent of the water that nome flows in is is -- in it is the snow melt of montana, 50 percent of the water stored in the columbia river basin system, which is the largest river basin system west of the continental divide, is montana-stored snow. and anybody who is a trout fisherman, worldwide, they'll it will you the biggest, best trout fishing waters are montana, and every one of them, the milk, morias, yellowstone, blackwood, bitterwood, clarksfork, flatwood, kutni rivers, they're bankful and flooding. we had 800 percent of normal snowpack in the mountains, as low as 200 some percent