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We're going to continue to see the river cresting in locations as we go through the remainder of this week and potentially into saturday and the water levels are going to remain potentially high for about a month you. mentioned how the u.s. is recovering and really dealing with the wheat industry. we're also going to talk about how the high level of the mississippi's also affecting the economy. we're talking about the transport. roughly 500 million tons of cargo actually moved along the mississippi river. as you mentioned, part of the mississippi river was closed yesterday, about a 25-kilomete...

soldiers, she's visited the stadium where in 1920 british troops opened fire on a crowd watching a gaelic football match. 14 people were killed. the flood-swollen mississippi river is slowly pushing toward the gulf of mexico, threatening more towns along the gulf in the united states. local residents aren't taking any chances. so far nearly 9,000 people have evacuated from the flood zone. a television journalist who went missing in syria three weeks ago is safe and is returning home. that's according to her employer. dorothy orothy will be returnin soon. they said she had been de...

Floods continue to wreak havoc in the united states. let's go to our meteorologist, general tejennifer delgado. jenn? rain overnight in areas that don't need precipitation. as i show you on the radar in the last several hours, we picked up rainfall and stronger storms moving through parts of the midwest. the rain is coming down right along the mississippi river flows. now, will this affect the current levels with the flooding? really? it's not going to be enough precipitation. but keep in mind so, many people out there sandbagging and things like that, they don't want this type of weather. a...

Tennessee, anywhere in red, this is the area dealing with the flooding. roughly it's about the size of italy. very wide area. many are dealing with the flooding. the worst is going to be downstream from memphis. let's show you what it looks like in tunica, mississippi. residents are evacuating. this is a big gambling area. a lot of money made in this region and it's shut down because of all the flooding. we're dealing with major to moderate flooding up and down the mississippi. we're going to talk about this through the month of may as i take you over to the graphic. talk about memphis. techni...

Same area, so between april 22nd to about may second, we saw some areas across the mississippi valley and parts of the ohio valley seeing up to 21 inches of rain. so that caused all kinds of problems across areas like cairo in the north, we've been keeping a close eye on that area, and all of this water needs time to slow downstream so we're seeing problems now in memphis, mississippi, where we are expecting the mississippi river to crest at about 48 feet and that water will continue flowing downstream until may. vehiclesberg, one area that's see thank major flooding across the region, they're...