Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110516:23:02:00
Revised. they didn't have to open as much of the spillway as they thought. the good news is that the numbers of people impact ld be lower than that. >> reporter: you hear that noise behind the governor as he speaks? that's a pile driver driving a steel pile into the river bed. they opened that spillway. something else they're doing to stop floodwaters from coming back up into these small communities, they took a 30-foot high steel barge, took it out into the river and sunk it, using rocks to hold it down. using steel pilings -- that's the banging you heard -- to keep the water from coming back...
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