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Their properties in expectation. the big news on the mississippi was they shut down that river to navigation around natchez. they ransom test barges. they were concerned about the wakes hitting the mississippi side and louisiana side and causing damage to the buildings. they did some test tows, now barge traffic can come back and forth past natchez and vi dala. one barge at a time in. a day you have 600 barges coming by. we've got gridlock there. baton rouge is expected to crest todd and tomorrow. i want to emphasize much like in memphis, baton rouge, natchez and vicsburg, most of all these th...

Images we are seeing now. security forces killing civilians in the streets. and you're going to see a heroic effort to try to retrieve a mother and son lying in the streets. just the latest disturbing scenes from the uprising that's left hundreds dead. also, i'll speak to the wife of a political activist. an activist herself. her husband has been taken, arrested. she doesn't know where he is. or what's happened to him. she's now in hiding, but she's determined to speak out. she wants her voice heard. a watery state of emergency throughout the south. the mississippi river cresting at a record...

Scenes from the uprising that's left hundreds dead. also, i'll speak to the wife of a political activist. an activist herself. her husband has been taken, arrested. she doesn't know where he is. or what's happened to him. she's now in hiding, but she's determined to speak out. she wants her voice heard. a watery state of emergency throughout the south. the mississippi river cresting at a record level in memphis. flooding on the move. we'll get a live update from martin savidge in memphis, next. [ woman ] bathing suits!

Across the south, the lower midwest, about 3 million acres of farmland are flooded tonight and the waters are still rising along the mississippi river. here's what it looks like in memphis, leaving as many as a thousand properties under water. the flooding is moving steadily south. take a look at vicksburg, mississippi, historic town hit hard by flood waters. the river hasn't crested there yet. st. mary parish, they're piling up sand bags to save the church there. some 26 parishes in the state have declared states of emergencies. in new orleans, the river is already at flood stage and the army...

That's not floating. and what they are doing here is to use these portable bladders or aqua barriers to fill them up with water from the river and use that as pretty much the sandbags and creates almost a watertight seal and done a good job to protect the gold strike casino here, and the best part of this technology is environmentally friendly, and you flush out the water when you are done and pack them up on trucks and get them out of here. sandbags obviously a little bit more work and little bit dirtier, and it is cresting now, randi, but just like in memphis and just like in cairo, this is ...