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Comprehend. >> the national guard is moving with the water, setting up a sandbag operation in arkansas, state officials tell fox news lake conway could see substantial residential flooding. right now in fort smith, hundreds of homes are impacted or flooded. helping frantically move his parents out of their fort smith home in less than ten hours. >> i still hurt. yes, it was amazing how fast we moved the house out. and seeing the whole street in the community how fast they moved out. >> the water here in the fort smith area is starting to reseed, but it could be days until he goes all the way d...

Towns below it. an emergency operation is under way to repair a hole in the spillway, and to get residents out of harm's way. already more than 200,000 people have been evacuated. you can see the evacuation lines there. steve patterson is in oroville, california, with the latest. what is the situation at this hour? >> reporter: that operation that you mentioned is happening directly behind me. i want to step away and show you quick, it's almost like a sandbag operation but imagine sandbags in the form of boulders, crews have brought in boulders from all over the region, dumped them here at thi...

It's the reason why roads will be closed and it's the reason why schools have been cancelled and it's a reason why there is a huge sandbag operation around this river. officials are worried about this thing swelling and raging as it is right now and then cresting above that flood level. that's something that's already predicted and already in the forecast. so there is a huge operation to either try to prevent happening in different areas that could really affect people or to try to prepare for it, and prepare for the worst. that's what a lot of people are doing right now. as you mentioned, wat...

It started moving towards the west of the river. this is one of the -- this is the only inhabited barrier island off the coast of louisiana. with me is chris hernandez, a public works director here and chris, tell me about what you guys are doing to try to protect this area from the oil spill. >> rob, what's going on right now with the team that's here, bringing in all booms, making some deflector shields like a full bypass and along the coast, we're trying to keep the oil and the oil sheen on the outskirts of the -- the ties. >> you guys have a major sandbag operation under way, don't you? >>...