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community? >> shepard: they have saved this community, period. >> shepard: period. inmates in jails from new orleans to natchez and vicksburg upriver to greenville and tuneca. farther north to memphis and beyond. the inmates, the sheriff tells us, have saved the levees and millions in property. can you check out our web site for all the latest on this historic flood of 2011. head over to foxnews.com/weather. there you will find updates and videos from our correspondents all across the river. foxnews.com slash weather. two commercial jets nearly clyde collided shortly after a plane carrying the pr nt land in chicago. we just learned that it happened monday the day of mayor emanuel's inauguration. fox news confirms a snet was taken off and came within hundred feet of another. a pilot not at all happy about it as the planes nearly collided
i don't know. i heard fema is supposed to house us. but we haven't heard from fema. we don't know if they're going to help us. we just don't know. >> okay. >> caller: it's devastating. it's scary. >> tammy everett, one of many flood victims now, wondering what's next along the mississippi river. let's bring in meteorologist chad myers on what's happening right now. chad, a tough story to hear, but are things getting better anywhere? >> no, water there in tuneca going up, vicks berg going up. finally memphis is cresting -- i don't want to say crested, because this water is going to be at the same level now for four days. that's putting tremendous pressure on the levees, on both sides of the river now, where this bubble of high water is. these are just piles of dirt, literally. grass, plants and trees are piles of dirt. if the grass and trees and roots all hold it together, everything works perfectly. if something fails, then all of a sudden the water just goes away. it just goes into that dry land.
personal information. that's a live picture. cnn in-depth on these troubled waters all lies on the swollen mississippi, cresting at levels not seen in 70 years in memphis, tennessee. thousands of people evacuated, including tammy everett. she joins us by phone from a shelter in tuneca, mississippi. tammy, tell us what happened to you. >> caller: i got evacuated out of my home. and tuneca is cut off. and the water has come up so high, we couldn't get our stuff out. there's like 300 people who lost their whole house. and they couldn't get their clothes and belongings. and some people up here don't even have clothes. and we haven't heard from our governor, haley barbour or the city officials to tell us anything. >> tammy, let me ask you, this has been described as a
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