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And sometimes when we had dams put in eventually that sediment was. no longer able to get to the cause it was being sequestered behind the dams in the reservoirs and then the shoreline was shift landward and we've been building one large dam on earth every day on average for the last time hundred thirty hundred forty years and you say in one thousand nine hundred there were just a very few dams and you will see in red where new dams are forming first in the u.s. japan india. so the issue of dams is very much part of the story. by diverting river waters with dams and pumping greater quantities ...

You see in one thousand nine hundred there were just a very few dams and you will see and read where new dams are forming first in the u.s. japan india. so the issue of dams is very much part of the story. by diverting river waters with dams and pumping greater quantities of ground water man has upset the balance of natural forces yet the growth of more huge cities seems inevitable. located on the yangtze delta shanghai symbolizes the race for economic development with twenty three million people it is the most populated city in china. it involved is chinese success and anxious to become the l...

Same reprehensible lies about what happened in sandy, and it's unacceptable to me. absolutely unacceptable. i'm not going to let him get away from it. one of the reasons i came on this show is to remind people past is prologue. if we allow this politics to be played by either party in the next few days, the only people who will suffer are the people in houston. >> what you ignore you em power. if we ignore, we -- governor, thanks as always. a >> okay chris, here in houston this morning. at the buffalo bayou, which has swollen to five times its normal size. you can see behind me normally a walk...

Very soon. possibly flooding the entire downtown just miles away. a county judge estimates a third of the town is choosing to stay. how serious is this situation right now? >> it's completely serious. it's potentially catastrophic seriousness. a colorado river about a half mile that way that's projected to come up to potentially record flooding. >> reporter: hundreds of residents heeded the warnings and escaped on the last buses out. >> i was calling the storm a bluff from the beginning. i guess it made a believer out of me. >> reporter: as the raging river rises, this town's future is in limb...

>> judge, are there enough resources, enough volunteers to help these people in that community? >> caller: in that community, yes. however, this event is going to be, as it continues to develop is going to be much wider spread than just this small community. we have the san bernard floodplain, the river floodplain that is going to be impacted today and ongoing as it has waters come out of the rivers and get through the community. folks have, i believe a little bit of a misunderstanding that the flooding may be at its peak right now. river waters have not yet, most of these areas, we have had t...