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Its electricity from nuclear power in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis there. the country will instead focus on renewable energy and conservation. and developing right now, the mississippi river has crested in memphis with disastrous results. the river reached a height of almost 48 feet around 2:00 this morning. it will remain that high for up to 36 hours. hundreds of people have abandoned their homes, many more are preparing to do the same downriver. nbc's jay gray is live for us in memphis. jay, you've seen the worst of it now. it will last for a while. >> reporter: you're absolute...

To the paddle boats but look out here, it is just a big sea of water. the mississippi usually a half mile wide here at memphis. it is now six times bigger than that. this water is not going anywhere any time soon. this is just a preview of what's going to be happening down river. they did not set a record here in memphis. that crest is going to happen just a few inches from now, some time tomorrow. but that's going to be short of a record that they set here back in the '30s. this water is going to combine with other water and set records all the way down to the gulf of mexico now. so this disa...

Shannon: a developing sphwhaition yens the national weather service says massive flooding in the state is reaching, quote, catastrophic levels. some places have seen 10-15 inches of rain already and the worst flooding may not come until wednesday. joining us now on the phone, greg fisher, mayor of louisianaisville where the ohio river is expected to rise 3-4 feet above flood stage today. mayor, thank you for joining us. can you give us an update of how things are going on the ground? >> pretty well it's not of epic proportions in louisville, down river, toward the west is where the real proble...

Lake winnipeg, and we have pictures coming out of the fargo area. this is thanks for the national guard. they let some of to local tv people fly along with them. some of these little towns just outside of the red river are completely cutoff, and in fargo, the river crests saturday night and early sunday morn, and it is the fourth highest crest in fargo. but down river, randi, we are looking at grand forks, and they are not going to crest until wednesday, going into thursday, and they are really bracing themselves, because it looks like it is going to be the second highest crest that they have ...

Issued. fargo has crest. it might fluctuate just a little bit, but it crest yesterday evening. showers and windy weather conditions, as i've mentioned, that's going to kind of hamper things. the crest at fargo, 38.5 teet. grand forks down river, they're expected to crest at wednesday morning at 50.5 feet. sometime early wednesday morning. previous floods have taken it in excess of 54 feet. we're still looking at flooding. it's still going to be a problem. they closed bridges, portions of highways and portions of interstates. but it's going to be substantially below some of those record crests ...