leave us alone and drop back down into its banks, it's going to be a long arduous clean up chore. hopefully i will be able to get the house back into shape so i can move back in again. >> more and more roads are being washed out across the state, making it very difficult to move around and stay. the president officially declared 14 separate counties in mississippi as disaster areas. jon, back to you. >> what a tragedy, steve harrigan, thank you. moving south. the river has topped a levee in louisiana flooding 12,000 acres of farmland there. the port of new orleans says the coast guard could close the river to ships as early as monday. the impact to shipping potentially huge as it would shut down one of the world's busiest commercial waterways. the army corps of engineers is considering whether to open the morganza pillway baton rouge. an action that would take pressure off the levees but also flood thousands of homes and farms. kris gutierrez took a helicopter