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Month. not everyone can build their own levee. and people on the delta are watching water levels. and now it's raining in some areas making an even muddier mess. the rain comes as the mississippi was cresting in naches at more than 60 feet. we're in mississippi with more on that. the waist-high water is frightening to see. >> the rain didn't help much. it's made officials here more worried about the flooding which is at crest stage here and holding probably at least through today. we're outside vicksburg. the roads are closed. they're mostly underwater. the flood stage here is holding. we're...

Our photojournalist is going to pan to the right. we're told we're several miles in from the mississippi river at this point, we were earlier at a levee holding some of this back up north of here from some of the areas over here. millions of square acres are safe for now. but there is a problem with that one particular levee at lake al b march. they have what they call a slide. that is when the sheer weight of the water weakens the underpinnings of a levee. those underpinnings have shifted, slid about five feet from where they should be, and they are frantically now with bulldozers and backhoe...