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Us the water is ten feet higher than normal and could reach another seven more feet within a week. the good news, jon is that according to the national weather service the crest of the mississippi river is now expected tomorrow. it's a little deceiving though, once it reaches that crest level it's going to stay at that level according to the weather service for two to three weeks and that's why the army corps of engineers is working so hard to open more and more of the gates on the swill way so when all the extra water comes down the river they open more and more the gates to keep the water at...

Time highest on monday. and then we're going to get into record territory. these crests in vicksburg and than which he nanchez and baton rouge all break records. to the south of there, the record crest level in the baton rouge area on sunday of next weekend. that's how slow the disaster this has been. here is the forecast for your weekend. not a pretty day of it in the ohio valley. a lot of rain, cloudy, cool conditions from illinois all the way to ohio. chicago and detroit, not looking at the best of weekends. afternoon showers and storms, some on the strong side through the carolinas. and it...

And joins us live this morning. are they able to do early assessing of the damage or is it too soon? >> it's too soon. just like what we dealt with the past couple days in memphis. a slow crawl to get this water to the crest level and a slow drain of the river. that's probably the most frustrating part about this. as you've been talking about across tunica, that's an area where over 200 homes have been completely flooded. a number of other boat houses have been set loose and are floating down the river. who knows when that -- folks will be able to go back into the area. a number of people who ...

Vicksburg on the 20th, about 15 feet above flood stage. natchez, may 22nd, 16 feet above. red river landing on the 23rd and baton rouge on the 23rd as well. many of these rivers are going to be staying in flood for at least 7 to 10 days. that's at the high crest level, and then it will slowly recede for weeks beyond that. they're also talking about opening some of the spillways. we saw the explosion and heard about that in david's piece. they will likely be opening a spillway on monday morning down near new orleans to help relieve a little pressure there. >> jacqui, thank you so much. and ar...

Downriver, we'll still awaiting the flood wurts. yesterday the national wench service revised the crest level significantly downward, 2.5 feet. that is a lot. that's not to say, though, that communities like stephensville won't flood because they will have water here. will it reach the homes or just come up into the yard? that's the question that can't be answered at this point. i can tell you the water is coming so much slower than anticipated. we were talking about the crest on the 23rd, then the 25th, now the 28th from this region, a week from today. it's got to be very frustrating for thes...