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Being moved to a new location when something goes terribly wrong. the historic firehouse crumbles into a pile of rubble. august 21st, 2008, peekskill, new york, after months of planning, workers begin the slow and delicate operation of moving the firehouse. the firehouse, built in 1890, is home to the centennial hose company. it serves the peekskill community for 90 years before closing in 1980 because of recurring problems with flooding. >> every time we had heavy rains, it would flood out our firehouse. we used to be knee-deep. sometimes chest-deep in water in the fire station. >> despite de...

August 21st, 2008, peekskill, new york, after months of planning, workers begin the slow and delicate operation of moving the firehouse. the firehouse, built in 1890, is home to the centennial hose company. it serves the peekskill community for 90 years before closing in 1980 because of recurring problems with flooding. >> every time we had heavy rains, it would flood out our firehouse. we used to be knee-deep. sometimes chest-deep in water at the fire station. >> despite decades of neglect, firefighters cherish the centennial and the memories it holds. but to make room for a new bridge the ce...

Massive flooding is making life miserable for lots of people along the mississippi river. the historic surge of water is heading towards new orleans. that's where john king is in butte larose, louisiana, up with of the towns being flooded to protect new orleans and baton rouge. within days they expect water there 15 feet above flood level. and today the governor of louisiana said water levels could stay way up for a month. john, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, you see me here. i'm about chest deep. this is butte larose. in this community, this was dry just the other day. i would ask doug...

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Things are starting to go down in this neighborhood. but you can see here the street is still flooded and some basements here at least are under water. yesterday in the morning around 6:00 people woke up and said this was a neighborhood that had never flooded before and then they started to see water in their basements and quickly rose. catching people off-guard. in fact one family had to hop in their dinghy in their backyard to try to get to safer ground. and it didn't take long for volunteers to ascend and bring people to safety. at one point we saw people walking around here and it was abou...