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This system of hef vlevees we h. we're talking about 3,700 miles overall. where the river has crested here in the boot heel of missouri. we're going to zoom in. we already heard about the first levee explosion that took place at bird's point. that was up in missouri. these aren't levees that we're going to explode. these are going to be, like, gateway systems and spillway systems they're going to open up to move that water. the first one, this has already been approved. the bonnet carre spillway. tomorrow morning around 8:00 a.m. they're going to open this up. this is the mississippi river rig...

Going on with the levee. >> reporter: well they're -- which is just extraordinary. we're at pretty much the missouri/illinois border where the mississippi and ohio rivers meet. and they're both swollen beyond compare. so we're seeing an extraordinary event, for sure. the president has declared this area a major disaster to open up some funds for these folks. yesterday as you mentioned, i went out with the usgs team of scientists to measure the flow, get an up-close look at the levee that was broken. we measured average flow of about 3 million gallons per second of this water pouring into this ...