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Now looking at places like st. louis. the mississippi river, it is expected to reach major flood stage but this is what i was telling you about. notice the river continues to rise and not going to add more rainfall. the river will rise. forecast crest on thursday over 43 feet. so we're looking at major flood stage. the good news, not adding anymore rain into this area. we are going to be staying dry through the remainder of today. back to you. >> alex wilson, thank you very much and continuing to watch it with evacuation ordered to the massive flooding there in the mississippi river in missour...

About 400 traps out there. trying to bring in the harvest, so to speak. you're right, butte larose in this area, they've been told to get out. the mandatory evacuation goes into effect tonight and by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, they're not going to be letting anybody into or out of this place. it's been a week now where folks have been moving their stuff out. i've talked to a number of people that have been frustrated because boom, they're out of their houses for a week and a lot don't have a place to go. red cross shelters haven't been opened up yet so there's a handful of random shelters tha...

seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> that's right. in fact, we're waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that's the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wan...

Extended models. about a week from now when some of these areas downstream across parts of louisiana and southern mississippi could see the river crest in those cities, we could be looking at another potential storm bringing in more rain. now, it's still too early to tell how much rain that particular storm will bring. aside from that the damage is already done. we did see record rainfall towards the end of the month of april. all of that water is what is causing all of this flooding across the area. some parts midwest saw up to 21 inches of rain. so all of this now flowing downstream and caus...

Far as serious flooding down there in the next several days to come. want to show you the actual levee that protects greenville proper. here it is. it can take this river to go as high as 75 feet. the forecast crest is for 65 feet so we're confident that the city should be okay but there's a number of lakes and a number of weak spots, seepage, these sand boils that bubble up are constantly fighting that battle. you know what's interesting? wildlife has had basically to scurry away from these floodwaters. just an hour ago just down near this levee this is what we saw. yet another deer swimming ...