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Been very heavy wind gusts, and the rain just pummelling down. right at this very moment, we're feeling maybe a lull in the wind gusts. they have died down just a little bit. but the rain is not letting up. i want to show you that people have used sandbags around town, because as you mentioned, flooding is the biggest concern. this city has not gotten a major storm since 2012, and the mayor is extremely concerned that if they get all of the rain they're anticipating, about 10 to 20 inches, if that comes all at once nonstop, their pumps will not be able to handle that, even though they got extr...

Do still have troops in iraq. now, ana, he is heading out again on the road for a three-day swing through iowa, coming up just next week. ana? >> of course, that's ahead of our next democratic debates hosted by cnn here on the 30th and 31st of july. thanks. last fall we shared the story of luke mickelson, a top ten cnn hero in idaho who ended up quitting his day job to follow his passion, giving kids a good-night's sleep by building free bunk beds. his project has taken off in ways a small-town farm boy never would have imagined. take a look. >> we went from just one little community to over...

And corn country. it is 10 feet lower than lafayette, just up the road a little bit. and when they settled these towns, they built the church on the highest ground and as these towns have expanded, now we're seeing subdivisions getting built on the flood plains outside of town, and that is where the danger could arise. here they had 17 inches of rain in just four hours back in 2016. 6 hom 600 homes flooded. they have improved their defenses since then, but there is only so much you can do as the public works director here told us. drainage systems sometimes -- however well you build them, they...