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Back now to the breaking news out of missouri. evacuations ordered due to massive floodinging as you see here along the mississippi river. the governor will have a news conference at 3:45 eastern time. earlier today, the governor confirming 13 people have died as a result of the deadly deluge of rain that swept over the weekend. want to bring in on the phone, st. louis mayor francis slay. thank you for being with us. we understand some of the points of the river crested. update us on the efforts to getting people to higher ground. >> well, in st. louis we are not experiencing near the flooding...

Levee. >> this is basically nothing. i mean it's not even a -- down on the bottom. >> reporter: they're looking for four distinct threats to a levee and flood wall system. like the one keeping the mississippi out of the streets of memphis. first, overtopping. that's lapping over the top. the army corps says that threat has passed, and in fact the river could rise another six feet before going over the flood wall. second, erosion of the levees. those dirt berms remain strong and then the flood walls protecting downtown, they too appear to be holding. the fourth and final threat are those sand b...