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Neighborhoods in and around that historic city are now said to be completely flooded. some 2,000 people forced from their homes. a nasa astronaut snapped this photo from the international space station yesterday. this shows vicksburg and the swollen river that's causing all the trouble. vicksburg lies about 60 miles north and east of here. our jonathan serrie is live tonight it looks like the flood wall in downtown vicksburg is holding well. what about the backwater levees outside of town? they are very important. >> they, indeed, shep. today we got a dramatic aerial view of the yazoo backwate...

Engineers and all the city officials telling us the system is holding up just fine. the large levees is doing well. one of them is behind me, the long concrete wall in front of the waterfront here in vicksburg. it's that concrete wall is supposed to be about hundred yards in front of the bank of the mississippi. that water is halfway up that wall. next to that is flood wall just for this event. that one is made out of railroad too ties, tar and steel chain. it is gushing water but we're told it's manageable for now. water is going down a storm drain or being pumped back into the river, but not...

This hill, 100 to 150 feet higher than the water level. so homes like these are in no danger of being flooded but it is about suring up the low-lying areas. >>shepard: we drove from vicksburg to natchez this morning and as anyone will tell you a few miles south of vicksburg is a huge wash out of highway 61 so you go through little roads inland. how is vicksburg, the city, doing? >>reporter: you go into downtown vicksburg, and we have video to show you, they are suring up, with crews around-the-clock suring up the massive flood wall and are removing excess water that is spilling through the flo...