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Could easily happen. >> reporter: without the diversion of massive amounts of water by the army corps of engineers, this flood would soon be pushing water over the new orleans levees. with the morganza spillway opening, the rising mississippi is abruptly cresting here a week early. at 17 feet, it is still just 3 feet from going over the top. just 3 feet from the top. that still sounds like a near miss to me. >> well, again, it is -- we're watching this very careful. we are not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: and that, in part, is because of what the flood could do to commerce at this major ...

They can't operate if they're heavily flooded. the floods have stalled some river traffic and that could also force companies to halt pipeline flows or they could lead to congestion on railroads. all of that contributes to higher prices at the pump if that river traffic is stalled. the mississippi river is a key transport hub in this country. kiran? >> we're feeling the reverb bragss very far from where those floodwaters are. meantime to libya where rebels are fending off heavy shelling and rocket attacks by government troops inmisrata. a western journalist tells cnn the rebels are making slow...

What drat mattockly we don't know the end game. but arkansas is reporting 1 million acres submerged. in mississippi, corn and wheat are threatened to be destroyed completely. the bottom line, food prices up and also, you know, it's a timeline with this corn and soybeans are already at elevated levels, so exacerbated by this water. so we've got game, the ag industry and impact at the pump. in louisiana, refineries could shut down. river traffic stalled for the mighty mississippi. it's a huge artery wab highway for the so many businesses and so many commodities. bottom line, could may more at th...

Quick move going down. barge traffic, river traffic, has been shut off way to the north of here. but the big problem for bashlg barges isn't so much navigating these floodwaters, it is that their destinations might be underwater. all of these barges that are on the riff, everybody had plenty of warnings down this way and into the south to make sure that everything was secure or at least as secure as it could be. the coast guard doing a great job going up and down this river, making everything the way it should be. but again this was a slow moving disaster. it wasn't a flash flood and everyone'...

Again on the mississippi river after a barge got stuck over the weekend. that barge ran past buoys that marked the shipping channel near greenville, mississippi. 18 vessels were waiting to head north. 21 waited to head south. water levels, as we reported last week, had been fluctuating wildly due to the drought. river traffic came to a standstill just last week. in other news this morning, rural southern california has been rattled by dozens of small or moderate earthquakes. experts say the jolts could continue for a few days. the largest quake, 5.5, centered near brawley. 20 mobile homes we...