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Fallen. you have nearly 300 rivers that are above flood stage right now so it doesn't take much to exacerbate and make those worse. the problem is even though the main focus is in the midwest for right now, all of that water has to go somewhere. it it's going to ooevenl flow to missouri and new orleans will see flooding and take a few weeks to get down there. unfortunately, you have a lot of warmth in these places expected the next few days so you'll get rapid melting which often triggers flash flooding very quickly. >> wow. big problems ahead. we will be thinking about them. thank you, alliso...

Can see where the tug drove up the center to break up the ice. now ice is a threat. a local river has formed a seven-mile ice dam. it piling up as high as the rivers. the water that is backing up is now threatening to flood homes in the area and that ice jam. homes that are floating are numerous around the midwest right now because pipes are bursting everywhere. they burst at o'hare airport and union station. that happens because you get a chunk of ice in the pipe and expands and breaks the pipe. at the end, shep, we're 52 hours in subzero temperatures. not a record. chicago went to negative 2...

Chicago, today was 2 below. we have 22 on friday. 42 on saturday. that's a 20-degree warm-up each day. it's going to be extremely rapid. minneapolis was 3 below today. 20 tomorrow. 37 by wednesday's low was 23 below zero. coldest since 1994. we will be at 51 degrees by monday. that is a 74 degree climb in just five days. and so with that not only will it be incredibly refreshing, it will feel like sumner chicago. we could have some problems. ice jam with such a rapid thaw like this and then also if the streets don't warm up and get above freezing and get rain in the next couple of days, that c...

Treacherous driving to the northeast. >> the problem is is that the rain is falling so hard that it washes the salt off of the road. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: icy roads creating frightening scenes like this in sutton, massachusetts. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: a school bus sliding backwards, crashing into a mailbox and then a car. 29 students onboard. luckily, no one hurt. the big thaw now causing problems, too. ice jamming up waterways across the region. the coast guard clearing the connecticut river today. >> all my life living in connecticut, never seen it like this. it's quite an ic...

That forces bubbles up from underneath the ship to reduce the friction on the ice and allows the cutters to make a better path through the ice. they said they're going to do about 15 miles of ice cutting today and at about 45 miles a day every day for the next couple of weeks and then another crew comes in to do with this crew is doing and they're going to keep the shipping lanes open so these cargo ships and fishing vessels can keep getting through and doing the work they need to do. i don't know if you heard that, but we are getting pretty big chunks right now. it's going to be a rougher rig...