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Bill: a 30-mile wall of ice threatening to overrun an entire town in alaska. an ice jam has formed at a bend in the yukon river flooding the remote town and crushing it under chunks of ice. look at that. experts say they have never seen anything like it. neither have we i think. more than half the town is already evacuated there. >> it is pretty stressful. a lot of work and a lot of cleanup and a lot of damage. with this long, long, long spring it has just been, you know, real nervous for everybody. bill: that ice is expected to melt over the next several days as temperatures rise but that cou...

This task. they're working to get the feds to make an exception. isn't that horrible? >> this is just such a tough story. you never want to be in that position. her parents are doing everything that they can. they're talking about online petitions. we're talking about reaching out to every federal government official that they can think of to try and get this change done. i can understand both sides of this idea. you need to have children, pediatric patients, and then you have adult patients. and it's hard to put anybody in front of anybody else. how do you make this decision if you're the one...

Go on and on and on. then you have to watch it to make sure one doesn't break. when the levee breaks, you've lost all the water behind it. let me show you pictures. this is what the river looked like yesterday. as a big hunk of ice was rolling down the river -- >> my goodness. >> that was a dock. >> can we hear that? >> go ahead. >> you guys see, it broke it all up. >> there goes another one. that's a rollup dock. put your boat on there and run that big wheel. it goes up. that's taken up. that's down river now. >> amazing. >> it's the amazing am of power. now, what happens, this big hunk of ic...

Central warren county because of an ice jam releasing water along the hudson river. evacuations are currently under way in a town of thermon we do need to keep an eye on the northeast. storms are impacting the wear with a lot of rain and snow and also the concerns other concerns. keep in mind across this area do not drive through flooded roadways. otherwise, i want to take you out. we have a massive cold front impacting this region from seattle to portland and northern california. showers earlier today move through san francisco and we also have heavy snow that will begin tonight into tomorrow...

Another storm system that is moving through. but i want to show you some flooding video coming out of the northeast. now, the problem is, we are dealing with recent rainfall. this has caused a snow melt, and now we're looking at the flooding situation after we have renewed rainfall. and you're looking at a river there. this is out of new hampshire. you can see crews out there trying to break this up so they don't have an ice jam. again, this is out of new hampshire. cold weather along with the heavy rainfall. now we go to some video coming out of connecticut. and this is showing you water up t...