blame for fourth deaths. governor jay nixon declaring a state of emergency after rain drenched that street. jim, how bad is it, and the big question, is it expected to get worse? >> reporter: just take a look leer, zoraida. this is sort of a boat terminal. usually this is dry land, and there's a road here between where i'm standing and the terminal. the mississippi river has come out of its banks here. to give you a little context, right now the river is at 35 feet. they believe that's how high it's going to get. it will crest later today. flood stage is 30 feet. normal is 15 feet. last year during the drought, it was as low as 3 feet. what an incredible shift, a change from last year to now during this flooding. we believe that things are going to start getting slowly better down here in the st. louis area. up in fargo, north dakota, they're just getting ready. this spring's storms, spring rain is accelerating the melt of