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weren't you a friend -- like a good friend of hillary clinton's at one point? what happened? i know you're very, very down on her. what happened? >> down on her? >> well, i think you accused her of being a murderer on twitter, didn't you? >> i did not! yeah. >> then you know i'm going to find that tweet and show it in the next four seconds. >> i deleted it! >> i deleted it. joining me now to discuss a significant chunk of the trump base thinks a lot like roseanne barr. jennifer rubin, conservative columnist at "the washington post." msnbc political analyst tom cedar. jennifer, let me start with you. that statement that there is a significant chunk of the trump base that has this sort of paranoid conspiracyist racist world view. what do you think of that
>> vast majority of deaths, i can't stress this enough, people driving into water. especially driving into water at night. all of you, when talking to folks, especially with water still rising here, continue to express to your friends, neighbors, everything else, please don't do that. >> reporter: now that was missouri governor jay nixon, he has activated, by the way, the national guard today to help provide security in some of the evacuated areas, as well as to help direct traffic around blocked roads like this one, jim. >> thanks very much for being on the scene for us. i want to bring in meteorologist tom cedar. i know you're a local boy, you know st. louis well. give us the layout. not just talking about one river. it's several rivers coming together and all of the rain has to go somewhere. >> absolutely. talk about river flooding along the mississippi, it's in the spring, after the snow is melting. not, of course, heading into winter.
and parts of the midwest. but you can see amounts of rainfall. if i show you river gauges, jim, across areas to the south, from texas over to northern florida, the carolinas, up to the great lakes, we have over 443 river gauges experiencing plank flooding. the worst, part office st. louis to the west, making its way southward as those rivers continue to flow upward. the good news is the dry conditions will continue in parts of st. louis and missouri through the weekend. >> well explained, tom. as you're looking there, on that map you see how many populate the areas are all along those river basins. it seems like only thing you can do is evacuate those people particularly if there's more rain coming. >> yeah. 1993, jim, benchmark year, with thousands flooded, they did amazing work. mainly west of the metro area. interstate 70, a major thoroughway from st. louis runs north and east was close the down this weekend. eastbound flow and even west. now major interstate 44 out of