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With the latest. >> for hundreds of miles along the mississippi river, battles are being fought. some big, some small in some cases there are hard decisions being made that protect whole cities flooding crops and farmers. as the mississippi river continues the slow rise heading for gulf of mexico and more homes are getting swallowed by the raging water, u.s. army corps of engineer and governor in the delta seem resigned to open flood wave for the second time ever to relieve pressure on levees that protect new orleans and baton rouge. >> it's extremely likely that the corps decide to open up th...

>> for hundreds of miles along the mississippi river, battles are being fought. some big, some small in some cases there are hard decisions being made that protect whole cities flooding crops and farmers. as the mississippi river continues the slow rise heading for gulf of mexico and more homes are getting swallowed by the raging water, u.s. army corps of engineer and governor in the delta seem resigned to open flood wave for the second time ever to relieve pressure on levees that protect new orleans and baton rouge. >> it's extremely likely that the corps decide to open up the spillway could ...

Going on with the levee. >> reporter: well they're -- which is just extraordinary. we're at pretty much the missouri/illinois border where the mississippi and ohio rivers meet. and they're both swollen beyond compare. so we're seeing an extraordinary event, for sure. the president has declared this area a major disaster to open up some funds for these folks. yesterday as you mentioned, i went out with the usgs team of scientists to measure the flow, get an up-close look at the levee that was broken. we measured average flow of about 3 million gallons per second of this water pouring into this ...