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South of here. and that is the reason -- the ordered that evacuation is because there is going to be about a 90-minute window that if that dam does breach, or if there is a type of structure damage to the dam, they have about 90 minutes to get out of harm's way, before the communities are inundated with water. at this point, the governor of louisiana is planning to fly over and assess the situations here. he plans to update us in about a half hour to see what the situation is. in an earlier press conference, he said there was a type of breach, no imminent danger, but they're planning to do tha...

Makokoda river river caused the dam to break. this is an image from the last seven days teen give you a better idea of where this is, this is the state of iowa here and i want you to notice in particular this red and purple dam area that includes where the dam broke and the chicago area, all of the red is at least five inches of rain. when you get into the purple that's 10 to 15 inches in one week and some of you saw that in about 24 hours or so. there you can see the flood warnings which remain in effect all across the area and the darker green area here across parts of ohio and on into west ...

>> people have been able to start coming back to their homes and start this long brutal process of getting back to work. everything in some of these one story homes was ruined. they need to restart and rebuild their lives. believe it or not, these are lucky people. if you are living in that addisad addicks or barkers dam area, they still have 10 or 15 more days as they continue to discharge the water out through the dams and into the bayou. those folks have a longer way to go. the houston harris county area flood control folks say the worst of this is ip deed behind them. they're getting rid o...