Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110510:08:39:00
At harrah's casino in tunica. businesses are shut down. as illinois and missouri clean up, further south flood preparations are in their final hours. >> now is the time to be going out there, securing your property, making evaluation plans, thinking about where you want to go. >> while the national guard evacuated 1,800 people around memphis, residents gathered across the city to watch the water rise. the u.s. army corps of engineers opened 28 bays of the bonnet carre spillway. >> we've had water in the mississippi before, certainly not at these levels. this these are record flows. >> reporter...
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