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Reporting in memphis for fox news, i'm tom de. s. juliet: one question for you, what's the story with power, water, things like that? i mean, i would imagine there probably isn't any. >> reporter: well, the story with power, as far as people with power in their homes, we have -- the crews here have done a great job of getting power restored to the majority of the homes. the problem with the houses that have had water in them is you can't turn the power back on in those homes, houses that have had water, you've got mud, you've got contamination, you've got bugs, you've got roaches, you've got s...

And its people back. look at it now. we'll take you live there in a moment. i mentioned that big bubble of water that comprises the river crest has now passed memphis. the trouble is far from over there though. the memphis commercial appeal newspaper reports that in the central part of that city along the river, the river that was once a half mile wide is now three miles wide. think of it. and crossing the street in some spot now requires dodging snakes and leaches and rats. one small bright spot is the bluff city music land marks escaped disaster. beale street, sun studios where elvis and joh...