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What is regarded as major flooding. but what makes this event so dramatic is just five months ago the mississippi was at near record lows due to drought. >> i'm actually standing on the exposed bottom of the mississippi river. >> reporter: since then, the river shot up close to 45 feet. >> it's pretty crazy to see how fast it came. >> reporter: there had been fears the draught would close the river to barge traffic. that never happened until monday when the coast guard shut down a section of the river in st. louis saying it was too dangerous to navigate because the water was so high. and the r...

It seemed to me that the case of her was getting lost. that it didn't seem to me -- other than the police and her family, that anybody cared about it at all and i want to emphasize something, this is not some girl hanging out at a bar that you think, oh, well, some random stranger got her going to her car. no, this is a mother of three and i'm not degrading any other murder victim. what i'm saying is this was a young lady that minded her own business. she had three children she was taking care of and i find it very, very interesting. i do not think this was a random crime. why? because the dis...

Pack up and go. >> i want to be safe rather than sorry. don't want to take chances. >> in many places along the mississippi, near st. louis, high water threatens small towns. sandbags, temporary dikes, the only thing standing between a surge of stormwater and main street. in some community, commercial districts already underwater. other towns are isolated as the rising river closes roads. as bad as it is, it could have been worse. in most places, the water is expected to crest an inch shy as what is regarded as major flooding. but what makes this event so tra mat dramatic, five months ago, the...