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i moved from new york city to the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul and when i'm on the east side of the river in st. paul i hit up the bowling alley. i start coming here in '55. people have been coming here coming here forever. >> it hasn't hardly changed. >> i have yet to find traveling around the united states anything quite like it. >> yeah. >> eight lanes in a basement old timy bar, everybody knows each other. right up there is a lot of money. >> right. >> we had a local regular like overseas for a couple of years and said when i come back i want to have a dollar to buy a drink when i come in next. >> right. >> it started there and people caught on to the whole thing. now it's our retirement fund. someday if they never come back. i bring people from out of town here just to sit down have a beer a hamburger, and i say, this is what st. paul is all about. >> nice close community around here. >> embarrassing yourself on television by showing the world what a crappy bowler you are is
inch shy than what is regarded as major flooding. what makes this event so dramatic is five months ago the mississippi is near record lows due to drought. >> i'm standing on the exposed bottom of the mississippi river. >> since then the river shot up close to 45 feet. >> it's crazy to see how fast it came. >> reporter: there were fears the draught could close the river to barge traffic that. never happened until monday when the coast guard shut down a section of the river in st. louis saying it was too dangerous to navigate because the water was so high. cnn, west alton missouri. >> now to the search for five missing people in the aftermath of violent storms in oklahoma. officials making a grim discovery yesterday, the body of an 8-year-old girl that drowned in a river in oklahoma city. there's been 18 storm related
barge traffic. that never happened, until monday, when the coast guard shut down a section of the river in st. louis, saying it toofs dangerous to navigate, because the water was so high. by the way this happens to be the second round of flooding in the mississippi river in the last six weeks. the hope is here in west alton and elsewhere, the river will crest today and begin to subside, but it's rushing by right now. john. >> those are amazing images, you standing on the road with the mississippi river flowing right over your feet when are you standing on the road. martin savidge in the mississippi river this morning. thank you, martin. oklahoma now, where the death toll has risen to 18 since friday's violent storm. the possibility that he is veer weather could return today. another big story developing as well. the potential for more heavy rains from a storm system that may soon become a tropical
texas might catch a little bit of a break. for once, the weather might help, not hinder them. a cold front could bring rain but the fire danger is expected to return tomorrow. sometimes still pictures tell the story better than moving pictures. we are showing you these pictures from two hours west of dallas. so far, 170 homes have been destroyed as new fires flare up and separate ones merge into giant blazes. parts of seven states have spent the morning under a tornado watch after a very rough night. severe weather has been blowing through the midwest and the south. you are looking at some of the storm damage from central ohio. one area near columbus reported winds near 100 miles per hour. wind, lightning and heavy rains slammed memphis, tennessee overnight. more than 50,000 customers lost power. farther up the river in st. louis, in the st. louis area, weather spotters reported tornadoes on the ground.