angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. breaking tonight it s one giant hoax. first the mainstream media says the rising crime was a hoax. then the border crisis a hoax. now the epidemic of swatting across the united states is also a figment of the rights imagination. or as the washington post calls it a right-wing fever dream. live in new york city tonight with the fever dream that is impacting thousands. good evening trace. that washington post article claims that according to experts, squatting is extremely rare and it blames the right-wing media for making much ado about nothing, writing that squatting has emerged as a political cultural for the right wing fuelled by a fury of headlines that feed into the larger narrative of crime which is a political issue. while the post says squatting is not a problem, the white house says it s a local problem. watch. in florida there is a new law where victims of squatting can call the cops and have the remote
biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there s no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway appears to be having the desired effect. the biggest test is still days away, the highest water, hundreds of miles up river. this is greenville, mississippi, that you re looking at right now. a live report from there, and it is being inundated, straight ahead on cnn. let s get right to ed lavandera who was there when the morganza spillway was opened just about three hours ago. ed, tell us about it. ed lavandera is joining us on the phone. ed, can you hear us? reporter: just a while ago, this is
floodwaters as they will be flowing there. i m told it will take about a day and a half for the water to reach that area. but everybody has left. they were told a few days ago to expect 15 feet of water in their community. so as we were there a few days ago, don, we saw people literally packing up every last piece of belonging they could get out of their house, even taking air-conditioning units, refrigerators, everything they could pick off the ground, heading for drier ground. ed lavandera, thank you very much, we ll have much more in just a little bit at the half hour here on cnn. we re going to take you inside that town. in the meantime, jennifer delgado has more information from the army corps of engineers about how opening the morganza spillway will affect the atchafalaya basin. we have breaking news, and some good news coming in. because they opened up the morganza spillway, it s already had an effect on the mississippi river at new orleans. i want to point this out to you.