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biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there's no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway appears to be having the desired effect. the biggest test is still days away, the highest water, hundr...

Severe storm threats is where we start. millions bracing for extreme weather. the southern plains 61 twisters since wednesday. storms leaving one dead and dozens hurt. here's a storm chaser's close call. >> it's hitting me right now. i got debris. i hope this thing ain't big. oh, my god. we're getting hit so hard right now. >> the power of wednesday's storm on display trees bending. the images shot from inside a storm shelter in norman oklahoma. bill karins is here. >> we're going to go through that all weekend long. a dangerous two days ahead. the jetstream is moving pretty quickly with a sto...

However, over towards the west of morgan city, there was still some question about whether or not we might see a bit of rise across that region. now as i go over to our next graphic here, i'm going to get this out of the way for you, and we want to talk a little bit more about the flood levels and where we're really going to be seeing it peaking and really being at the major flood stage over the next several days and really weeks ahead. notice for vicksburg we're expecting that to be 14.5 feet above flood stage. that's may 19th. as we jump ahead to baton rouge, i want to point this out to you....