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To rise. >> now, is this expected to be the new norm in this region? >> reporter: well, this is what has everybody so worried, anderson. because if this is the new normal, i can tell you from what we have seen, south sudan will not be able to cope. they do not have the pumps, the equipment, the infrastructure needed to deal with this kind of a crisis. what you have is compound effect, where every time another flood hits, the situation gets worse and worse. what we do know from the u.n. is africa is disproporti disproportionately effected by climate change. and sight sudan, the youngest country...

Water. anytime the flood hits guess what happens, it contaminates the water table. >> we can see that they had been there on the ground distributed the water in the food as these recovery efforts officials are managing another situation. two major flood control reservoirs and an area beginning to spill over for the first time in history. what this means for the recovery efforts. to get back to doing what you love. ensure, always be you.

Flooded, the new evacuations to get the people out of there, kerry. you could be in that town for five to six days and they could have tropical storm force winds almost the entire time, bands of heavy rain on and off and this epic flood on the river through the downtown. when is the last time you covered a storm that did that for one location for five days? >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. the thing that people probably don't realize, especially since we're so far inland here, is that flood insurance is a separate federal program. people tend to believe if you have a mortgage, you know you're a ...

Government aren't properly regulating where the energy situationed are being cited you. have climate change coming in with severe weather to create not just an instant or couple week kind of disaster but a disaster that if you contaminate the ground waument water create question of everything from drinking walt ining water to to contaminants. >> a few weeks ago, before this flood, have they made different noises now? >> i think so. i think you are seeing the regulators looking a little flat-footed now. saying we're going to be on top of this. the problem is that, that they didn't learn the les...