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Appreciate your time at this bus tie time for you. we'll keep in touch and certainly wish you the best as you deal with this. let's head back to memphis, tennessee about 45 miles north. we restored our connection with david mattingly. you're in the middle of this hard-hit community. as you explain what happened in that community, help us understand any concerns on that end up there even as the waters start to recede a bit, you have to wonder about the levees. are they set up there? >> that's right. they are watching those levees closely. you heard about how they are keeping a constant watch on...

Begun to see what the water is going to do. john? >> david mattingly live from memphis, tennessee. i'm in tunica county, mississippi. still ahead tonight, the united states believes it's making some progress in its effort to get to question osama bin laden's wives and others taken into pakistani custody. also much more of our heartbreaking day in the areas hit hard by the flooding. when we come back, tunica's mayor.

That means there is going to be more pressure on all of these and it could cause further problems down the road. look behind me. we are at diamond jack's and you can see the water level and you can see the door that's about four feet of water at that door. this casino said they believe they could be closed until the middle of june. this water will be sticking around for a long time. that's a big problem. >> casey is tracking things in vicksburg for us. thanks. casy is that way, to my right and your left on television. that is the south and memphis to the north. we had a rare chance to get a vi...

Yes. something called the sand boil. sand boil right there. here's the levee right there. it's a big dirt berm. it's holding all the water back. it's dirt. it's not metal, it's not concrete. it literally is soil. if water can get under the soil and burrow, then it starts to boil like a boiling pot of water, you just see the water and mud and sand boiling up on the wrong side of this levee, that's where things could go wrong, john. >> chad myers for news the weather center. that is exactly what we saw here. there is one part of the levee they are concerned about. corps of engineers is rushing i...

... they all work together perfectly-- and you could save 25%. wow... it's all in the wrists. ♪ nationwide is on your side it's not very big. it's about 420 square feet and it was up on eight foot stilts, but the water is heavy, 8 2/3 pounds per gallon. it's got enough kinetic energy to push the house over. i had the opportunity to look through a collection of photographs. my house does not appear in the cut-off so it may be under the surface. >> do you think it's under water