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Of the southern explosion releasing some of that water out of the flood way. later they'll do a third hole in that levee and make a crevasse there that will free things up a little bit. this has been designed for this. as the usgs, the army corps of engineers and the nature conservancy will tell you every river needs its flood plain. >> the river system needs its flood plain. the flood plain is part of the river. that's the low lying areas adjacent to the river. during high water flows it would naturally spread out of those and take energy out of that system and help convey that water downstre...

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...

Try to cool that reactor. so as you say, nature has taken its course and caused the damage on the one hand. and now the manmade, if you like, or the manmade follow on trying to deal with the situation that is now already a nuclear emergency in this country. becky. >> so we're talking here of leaks and small explosions. to your mind, and you may have been speaking to those who are experts in this. do they have things under control, effectively? >> under control is a difficult situation. we're hearing all the right noise he if you like from the government and the authorities saying there is no d...

Not as much rain as we saw earlier in the week but the ground is saturated and snow melt trying to get through the larger river systems. the strong storm earlier in the week is ejecting in the plains and seeing severe weather across parts of southern arkansas. temperatures warm up in new york and chicago. a mild system is. tomorrow's highs will be warmer than that. it's going to be a fairly wet weekend as we go through this part of the world so if you're making plans for saturday in the east mississippi, it does look to be rather wet. point out this thing. this is a taurus rocket. on top of th...

Continues to crest. the death toll is also climbing. officials are saying 1,248 people. the u.s. has dispatched a disaster relief response team. i spoke with the leader of the team about the scope of this disaster. >> this is a disaster of, frankly, almost unimaginable proportion. in living memory, there hasn't been flooding in all three river systems at one time. so this is a huge disaster. having said that, pakistan has a great deal of capacity because beginning back with the earthquake in 2005 and a series of smaller disasters since then, they have a lot of people with a lot of experience i...