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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted northwest China at midnight Monday has killed 21 people in Qinghai Province, local authorities said on Wednesda.....

Expected to stay had high for days. life up and down the mississippi river has become one of survival and a torturous waiting game. nine states are affected. millions of acres flooded. tens of thousands of people have lost their homes an thousands more are about to. david mattingly joins us downstream in nach chtchez, mississippi where the flood is expected to crest on saturday. the army corp of engineers is keeping a watchful eye on that yazoo levee but the backwaters are already claiming property. what's the situation where are you? >> reporter: the situation is the same thing we've seen a...

educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america's interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don't like, the regimes we don't like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is...

Neighborhoods, as far as can you see. >> and in tucked away places, all across the bayou, there is some very important spots to watch. this is one of them. >> this is a sand boil. >> sand boil? >> where the mississippi river is running underneath through the dirt and ground and then bubbling up on the outside. >> shepard: this is a mile from the river. these boils are everywhere. being watched by volunteers. if they start spewing, especially with sand, the levee is buckling. >> it could undermine the levee. the levees sink and then you have overtopping of the levee. >> that could be a disaster...

From what you saw it will be able to save baton rouge and new orleans? >> that is correct. the river is cresting as we speak. our current projections from the corps of engineers, those two cities levees will not be challenged by high water, but what will continue to be a threat is the continuous precious on the levees, and you could have a danger of boiling point that might happen on a sand boil that could cause a problem, but right now the corps and the national guard has a lot of reconnaissance looking for those spots and repairing them quickly. there is still some danger down there in the m...