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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...

Greenville. jonathan? >> the river cresting at just over 64 feet, the highest since the great flood of 1927. the difference being this time the levees held fast keeping the rest of the city of greenville completely dry. of course, shep, it's a very different story for folks living on the other side of the levee. right now we're at on lake ferguson, which used to be a bend in the mississippi river. this neighborhood over here is along south lake ferguson road. that's the american legion post with the american flag on it. anywhere you can see windows, you're looking at the second floor of the ho...

Area of the mississippi river. as i zoom out and we talk about louisiana, as i close this for you, and this right here is going to give you an idea when we're going to see some of that water coming from the morganza spillway. for sunday it's going to get very close to the area of interstate 10. that is a very heavily traveled road. it goes from lafayette to baton rouge, and with that water coming in, we could potentially see some of that actually causing some travel disruption. as we jump ahead to tuesday, we're going to see potentially cresting on may 25th, roughly about a half a foot above r...

Climbing and it's surrounding the whole house right now and many of the homes in the neighborhood. it's above to that basketball hoop as well. the strange thing is seeing the wildlife as well. we are seeing many critters here. and we are trying to move towards and give you a better perspective, we are talking about the river cresting on thursday. you might have the impression that somehow it's not happening, and it's not happening yet, and the army corps of engineers tried to shore up the levees, and they reassured the people here the levees will hold. and many people packed up their things an...