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Fredricka was just saying, those floodwaters there are only still rising. they have not yet crested like we have seen farther upstream. that's the scenario. it's kind of like a wall of water pushing in. it starts to the north with the mississippi. and this wall of water just has to go somewhere. it's like filling up a bathtub. you hit the top, there's nowhere to go but over. here's the record flooding. flood warnings means flooding is happening or is imminent. on may 11th, this is when we're going to see it crest in memphis. this is the first big city and the beginning of a stretch of places w...

Of field street in downtown memphis with part of the mississippi river. it washed over its banks and into this area. conditions even worse in some neighborhoods. suburban memphis neighborhoods as you talked about, entire communities swallowed by the floodwaters. more than 300 people are already in area shelters, more than a thousand yesterday were warned by emergency officials going door to door that they needed to get out and move to higher ground. as you talked about, close to 3,000 homes are in the danger zone here. and the concern is, alex, that things are only going to get worse. we're no...

>> reporter: it's a beautiful day. good morning to you. one thing we just learned is that they are stopping barge traffic on the mississippi. this is a thoroughfare for a lot of interstate commerce. that may be the last barge to pass through here over the next eight days. officials say that because they displaced so much water some of that water is going up and around the floodwall behind me here in memphis so beal street where it intersects with riverside is flooding. we're about 45 feet at this point. record was set in 1937 which is 47.7 feet. when it crest on wednesday, it will be below tha...

Vermont. you have a chance of showers today. dry. feeling a lot like spring, 68 and sunny. forecast in the middle of the country, a few showers and storms. not expecting any severe storms. the big story, the flooding on the mississippi river. this is going to be a disaster. we have hundreds if not thousands of property under water that will only get worse. look at the bottom of your screen, vicksburg, mississippi. you won't see it crest for another two weeks, a slow painful process, one of the great floods of all time in the mississippi river. you're watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks...

Issued. fargo has crest. it might fluctuate just a little bit, but it crest yesterday evening. showers and windy weather conditions, as i've mentioned, that's going to kind of hamper things. the crest at fargo, 38.5 teet. grand forks down river, they're expected to crest at wednesday morning at 50.5 feet. sometime early wednesday morning. previous floods have taken it in excess of 54 feet. we're still looking at flooding. it's still going to be a problem. they closed bridges, portions of highways and portions of interstates. but it's going to be substantially below some of those record crests ...