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photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. i'm don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. it's a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from their homes. this is what it looked like back in 1973. the one and only time this spillway had to b...

>> and a very sad reality. thank you, ed lavandera. jennifer delgado has more information about how opening the morganza spillway today has already had a measurable effect on new orleans already. >> absolutely. earlier in the day we saw right around 16.98 feet. right now it's pretty close to that, but you have to keep in mind that's minor tlood stafloo. we'll talk about how it affected parts of new orleans in just a moment. but as i zoom in for you, with he have this image coming in from the army corps of engineers. this is in this area of blue, an area expected to be experienced through parts...