Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110503:11:33:00
Up that part of the levee last night, the river has dropped significantly, by at least a foot, maybe more than that, since that. so there has been significant pressure released. take a look at that video. it's extraordinary to think for all the levees we have across the river systems from the canadian border down to the mississippi to louisiana, to keep the water in, now we're blowing them up to relieve that pressure. we have put so much manmade object strucks in the way of our river systems to get them to flow where we want to flow. when we get this rainfall and the snowfall we've had over th...