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Message in vicksburg in a short time. he'll land at the airport and have a news conference then move onto another part of the state. he's very busy to trying to spread the word. talking to robert shyers the guy who took us out to his property, the people to live in this area, he's been in ten floods, he says he's never seen lying like this. he says they are not looking for a hand out, they are relying on their own wiles, he said they will get through it and they don't need the government's help. jenna: where are you standing? where are you that you're not directly in the water? behind you the ...

What is the latest there. >> reporter: we are about 15 miles from the normal banks of the mississippi. there is a lot of nervous anticipation. you can see behind me some of the damage already done by the flooding. this is a back water flood, this is really the yazu river and the mississippi. you can see a lot of boats around me. people have taken their boths and put it by the edge ever the water and they are taking both tours out to their properties closer to the normal banks of the mississippi. we just look one a short time ago. we got back a few minutes ago. we went with robert shyers. he to...

He talked to me earlier about the situation, where it stands in his state and how bad it can get. >> well, of course, we're going to have the mississippi river at record high levels in some places, such as vicksburg, mississippi, at near record high levels everywhere from memphis to the south. so all along the western border of mississippi. and the levees, the big mississippi river levee seems to be in good shape. it is going to hold, but our big risk -- our biggest risk is beyond people who have built on the other side of the levee between the levee and the river, our biggest risk is back wat...

Into here. this is a combination of the mississippi and yazoo coming together and backing up. there are homes all along in here, right now some of them are above the water line. again we are supposed to peak thursday at 57 and a half, which is another two, two and a half feet. some of these homes may have water getting all the way up to them. jenna: thank you so much for the live report from vicksburg, mississippi. a story we'll continue to watch. another story we are watching our national debt skyrocketing out of sight. some lawmakers have a new plan to put the brakes on uncle sam's spending....