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>> so linda, what's preparations are you making, as well as other emergency crews? what preparations are under way. can you do much, though, when it comes to this level of flooding? >> that's the problem with flooding. and in this situation, it's not going to be short term. we are done dealing with flash floods and now we're dealing with rivers, including the missouri and the mgs ms river that are rising. and will keep interstate 44 closed for several more days. so of what we're trying to do is get the word out to the nationwide trucking industry to use interstate 70 through missouri. >> what'...

Yesterday, i sense it this morning, are you getting the response you feel you need given the temperatures, given the level of the threat right now? >> we've had to throw a lot of resources at it. we'll continue to work to enhance those local levels. down in the mississippi, we were in perryville that has a 30 mile levee. we have a wide range we're giting all the way from the boot hill through st. louis and west. we've already got highway 44 closed, which takes about 100,000 vehicles a day, and a major trucking route is closed. there's a lot of area. that's one of the reasons i called up the na...

Magnitude of the flooding, we're at the intersection of interstate 44 and route 141. you can see how close it is getting. behind those street lights, you could see interstate 44, roughly 24 miles of that interstate are now closed. you can imagine the travel nightmare that is creating. both of these major highways closed. as far as the eye can see. to my left, the water has been inching closer and closer to the entrance of that gas station there h. we saw workers rapidly build that wall of sand bags. now the owners, sitting back and hoping for the best. there were firefighters here moments ago,...

Ten-mile stretch of i-44 every day. is there one area or one thing you're most concerned about this morning, governor? >> two things really. first of all, don't drive into moving water. the 12 deaths we have had are when folks drove into moving water and perished. we are going to make sure people are safe in that area, you have pacific, eureka, valley park. these are highly populated areas setting up shelters at places like francis howell senior high school, places like that. the bottom line is, if they do have to leave their homes, we'll make sure they're kept safe. we have security coming in...

Thank you, governor. >> thank you. >> watching the levees throughout the region, they're monitoring them with water levels rises in a number of rivers. cnn meteorologist jennifer grey is right there, live in valley park, missouri. she has a look at the timing and the forecast. jennifer? >> that's right, christine. we are expected to reach that record level any minute and in fact, we are going to go about three feet above that before this part of the merrimack river is expected to crest around midnight tonight. look behind me, this tells the entire story. you can see that overpass. that's inter...