Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110509:16:57:00
The explosion opened a two-mile hole, flooding more than 130,000 acres of farmland in neighboring missouri. >> when you look at that, what do you think? >> i'm very sad. i look at that and i don't have a home. >> reporter: marilyn's farm has been in her family for three generations. two still be dry if the federal government hadn't blown up the levee. >> i feel like that we're having to suffer for somebody else. >> reporter: farmers ray and roy presson have 2,000 acres under water. >> we've always lived with the idea that some day they might have to blow it. the waters kept rising and we knew ...
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