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There has been some rain down there. most across alabama. all the tornadoes a couple weeks ago. more rain and bad weather here over the last day. clearing behind this and with everything cool and dry over the next couple of days flooding. but the flooding problem will continue. >> catch-22. worry about new orleans flooding and on the other hand have you 30,000 people that could be affected by the spillway being open. >> that is the exact scenario. protect a lesser amount of people by opening it to protect the bigger city? which do you do? the announcement that they made, they are going to prot...

We're watching cresting in memphis tonight. we're watching it flow down the states on alert, mississippi next. and then louisiana. let's check in with one of the governors having to deal with this flooding problem. governor haley barbour. what is your biggest fear tonight? >> well, of course the integrity of the levee system is the critical thing. we're going to have levels of the mississippi river higher than 1927, the great flood of 1927. and of course what happened in that year was that the main mississippi river levee broke above greenville at mound and it flooded a gigantic part of the st...

The southeast. arkansas was pummeled with the flooding and tornadoes four or five days ago. unfortunately, the same spots could have up to seven inchs of rain. we're already talking about record-breaking flooding and this could exacerbate the problem and make the choice more difficult do they blow up to levees to relieve pressure or deal with evacuating kay row? -- cairo? the areas south are likely cresting at all-time record highs and the flooding problem across the south will continue in the meantime, we have to continue to deal with the problem in the southeast with the tornadoes as well. >...

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Louisiana is telling the people of louisiana to prepare for a category one. we don't think it will be a category one, but he just wants everyone to be on alert, it's already causing problems with the oil, they have had to pick up the booms, they're moving some of the boats, so it is causing issue. the waves could get as high as 12 feet. but the good news with this system is it's moving very fast. though it's organized, if it was moving slower, maybe five or six miles an hour, we could have had a major flooding problem on our hands. emergency crews in low lying louisiana are making sure all r...