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Meramec river is flowing through the streets of arnltold. this is just one section of the meramec. it's done a lot more than creep into somebody's yard. it's devastated homes and basements. it's continuing to rise and move in here. one of the things about this particular flood was that it was sudden. usually spring floods, you get days of warning, sometimes weeks of warning. residents say this happened in a matter of hours. they've never seen anything like it. they've been through floods. the great flood of 1993 is usually the barometer people tell you about. they never had water like this. ne...

High school is flooded out. as it moved to jennifer park where jennifer is in fenton, it kept fanning out. it's a little higher there. they had numerous vehicles stranded on i-55. they had to shut it down. now, the rivers to the north are fine. even st. louis and most of st. louis city is fine. we're not dealing with the ohio river, the missouri river as much which is receding. it is the arkansas river which is going to play a major role in this. and now that the merimack waters are reaching the mississippi, this is where we will find records broken on the mississippi, surpassing '93. you get ...

>> reporter: for missouri residents it's going to be anything but a joyful new year. the national weather service says record flooding will serve as the new benchmark for the meramec river basin. >> we have taken on more water than in the history ever that i've known in our city. it is in places we've never had it before. >> reporter: flooding has submerged neighborhoods, schools and shopping centers in the st. louis area including parts of interstate 70, 44 and 55. >> we are keeping back a couple feet of water from actually getting on i-55. unfortunately that hasn't been totally fruitful. we ...

Tomorrow, most likely. this affects everyone from the roads to the skies and it's not over yet, wolf. > not over yet. we'll stay in close touch with you, jennifer, thank you very much. let's take a look at this video, right now, it's from a storm chaser. he was in como, mississippi and no more than 200 yards from the tornado. that storm chaser is joining us on the phone. we're watching the incredible video of this tornado you shot right now. what did it feel like getting so close? >> well, you know, close to a safe degree. i saw a storm coming down i-55. and i intercepted and saw it on the h...

Welcome back. we've been tracking live pictures of the skies over clarksdale, mississippi. we've got storm chaser mike prendergrast on the phone. mike, we'll look at your video when it unfreezes in a second. but tell us what you've seen out there. >> well, we were following a very large and dangerous tornado for probably a good 30 minutes from near clarksdale, mississippi, heading northeast. this thing was long track, it was on the ground. it was just a beast. we've just pulled off of it because that one is leaving us because these things are moufing so quickly and they're so hard to see with ...