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Emergency spillway, until engineers found erosion in that as well. so the operation behind me is part of a larger respiratiopera make sure people are safe. there are emergency workers lined up all along this river system and downstream from the river system, helicopters that will be looking for people. the evacuation that was put into place sunday night remains that way. 200,000 people evacuated and those people will remain under evacuation until engineers can prove that the area is safe. that work will take some time, though. >> thank you for that update. msnbc meteorologist bill karins joins...

You talk about remediating the damage that haste been done but this is an entire river system. you will go all the way out to the colorado with this flow. how do you essentially vacuum up the sludge and silt settled on the bottom of an entire river system? >> i believe it will be very difficult and extremely expensive. hopefully what will occur. to the extent it can be treated it will be treated. the rest of the heavy metals settle into the sediment and don't present a problem to those who are using the water. that would be i hope, what occurs. but you're right, this is 120 some odd miles of r...

Maybe it doesn't quite look like this. like buffalo. but it's tough to imagine today every single part of the u.s. plummets to below freezing. i'm even talking about states closest to the equator. florida, hawaii. you couldn't escape the chill either. chad myers is standing by. i know this is january, but come on. this is unusual. >> this is probably a once in 20 year event. >> wow. >> when it gets this cold for this long in so many places, people die. i want you to take precautions. make sure the pets are taken care of. this is a live shot from niagara falls, new york. i used to live right ba...

Traffic moving. but it's insignificant. six to eight inches of snow you can see here that has fallen on the ground. heavy, wet spring snow, a big pain in the neck. serious trouble in illinois and missouri, down the river system. dealing with flood condition there. all of the moisture making its way there. tomorrow, as the week goes by. just truly hard to get your head around that this is not the middle of the winter in wisconsin, but may 2nd. out here today in wisconsin and i'm still not used to it. >> jim spellman chasing snow blakes around the country. still working on his snow ball throw. >...

Jim, paint the picture for us. it's pretty dire out there. >> take a look, this is st. louis. we're just below or just north of the famous gateway arch. this is sort of a boat terminal here. usually not under water. today under about five feet of water above flood stage. you can see how high this water has come up. similar circumstances here on the mississippi river. especially in these lower riverside communities. yesterday we were on another river, the illinois river, where we saw several of these low-lying communities just inundated with water. now we think it's cresting here today in st. l...