Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110508:10:06:00
Is this one going to work? >> let's talk about the old plan, last week, we talked about cairo, illinois. the plan was flood cairo, illinois, of 2,800 residents or flood 130,000 acres of farm lantd. that was a plan what to do with the water flooding farther north. we're downstream now from the mississippi. this is the mississippi here, this is the gulf of mexico. this is the morganza floodway and the bonacarry spillway. you can see the tentacles of the water. this is the plan. the morganza floodway and the spill zwrn way, th spillway, floodway, spillway, any way to move the water and prevent fl...