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is yet to come and on day one of their re-election campaign, vice president kamala harris makes it clear she won't shy away from the campaign spotlight, so why are both her supporters and her critics cheering we're also keeping an eye on the white house where president biden will be holding a joint press conference with the president of south korea we are now hearing from the white house that should roughly start 30 minutes from now. we begin in new york where two trials involving former president trump are unfolding just blocks apart, and in both cases, prosecutors and judges ...

Now he's in the field looking at the rising rivers here. what is the level and is it continuing to rise? >> the latest level we have is 41.1 feet, and it's slowly rising. we are hoping in the next hour or two, it will slowly deaddy off and crest. >> if it crests? the prediction is 42 feet. how are you predicting such a very difficult thing to predict? >> each river point we have the measurements for can differ by how wide the basin gets. the land gets flatter and the water can spread out. even just small differences of elevation can mean the difference between water getting in a house or out o...

Amount of rain. so if the gaudalupe river actually gets as much rain as is anticipated, it could rise to a near record level of 32 feet above its normal stage. if it crests at 32 feet, we're talking about homes in the area that will be flooded. i did get a chance to speak to one resident that lived nearby there. he had no homeowners or no flood insurance. he had homeowners but flood insurance is the necessary thing here. he said, look, if it happens, it happens. there's nothing i can do. i can't fret about it, i can just hope that for some way gravity does its business and the water gets down ...

Near st. louis. the top six of all time flood, forecast for the st. louis area right along the mississippi. and not long ago, maybe just a couple of monthsing a, they were talking about a drought on parts of the mississippi river. but that's not the case now. flooding is lookly. and it will be record. it crests tuesday at 40.8 feet in st. louis, back to you. >> thank you for the heads up on that. wnbc, janis huff. i'll talk with a storm chase who are jeopardized his life to get video over the tornado. didn't know what he was getting himself into. new today, president obama calling on congr...

Jim, paint the picture for us. it's pretty dire out there. >> take a look, this is st. louis. we're just below or just north of the famous gateway arch. this is sort of a boat terminal here. usually not under water. today under about five feet of water above flood stage. you can see how high this water has come up. similar circumstances here on the mississippi river. especially in these lower riverside communities. yesterday we were on another river, the illinois river, where we saw several of these low-lying communities just inundated with water. now we think it's cresting here today in st. l...