crest ever recorded. it will not surpass those of 1993, but we are going to be seeing on the merrimack river record crests in the area such as union, and pacific, and we will break it down for you along the merrimack. and the merrimack records are going back to 1982. let me break it down for you and to clarify in a few regions what we are seeing here. take this, if we can, pull full, and give everybody a good idea here. downtown st. louis here. flooding along the cobblestones and the landing and the city parks get flooded. the record in st. louis from 193 was 49.6 feet. they are expecting by thursday morning 44.8. so it is far from the record, but it is the second highest level. north of the city, right in between the missouri and the mississippi, it is west alton. that is where we are also seeing the records. now, in alton, it is 33 feet, and expected to get to 38, and the second highest level, but then you have st. charles where we have areas along the
government worked to push tenman square out of people s minds? good morning, it s wednesday, june 6 pt at this hour, chris mcdaniel has 49.6% of the vote. cochran shows with 48.9%. a third candidate, thomas carey, has less than 2%. that means no within has the majority of the vote needed to avoid that runoff in three weeks. campaign officials said it might take until thursday given absentee and contested ballots. but last night mcdaniel was
years, 49.6% were white, 50.4% were not. steve centanni is on that, national comes respondent. what accounts for the growing number of minorities. an aging population of white baby boomers and rising number of newer immigrants and minorities. it s important to note this tipping point would be reached, but nobody knew when it would happen. a lot is driven by the hispanic immigration and birth rates. hispanics are the largest group, 52 million in 2011, they re growing at about 3.1% since 2010 and they now account for 16.7% of the population, or at least they did in 2011. that is up from 16.3% in 2010. african-americans were the second largest minority group at nearly 44 million. overall, whites are still a majority in this country but in some states that s no longer true. according to the census bureau, minorities are the majority, in hawaii, with
without calling the former democratic presidential candidate, his ex-mistress, or even edwards daughter to testify about alleged campaign finance violations. closing arguments are now scheduled for today. mary richardson kennedy, the estranged wife of robert kennedy jr., was found dead in her new york home. a source familiar with the investigation told nbc news her death appears to be a suicide. the census bureau has made it official. for the first time, caucasian births are no longer a majority in the united states. whites accounted for 49.6% of all births, while minorities, including hispanics, blacks and asians, reached 50.4%. hey, here s some good news for all of us. a new study finds that men who drank at least six cups of coffee a day had a 10% lower chance of death, and for women, the risk of dying was 15% lower. see? it s not so rough getting up this early. and for the first time in 18
we always thought they were now there s proof positive which means the gun used in one shooting was the same gun used in the second shooting. that is key for the investigation. the other thing now, we understand mississippi authorities are reaching out to both the fbi and atf asking to use profilers. that would mean they don t have a lot but looking into the mind-set of the person carrying this out. remember, the theory is, and it s only a theory at this point, it s someone acting as a police officer pulling these people over in the middle of the night. tell me about the search for this guy, everyone involved at this point. do we know how far that search has been spread out? well, the search is going on, especially in that area of northern mississippi. they have beefed up patrols, not only in that county but all the counties in the surrounding area. however, here is the thing, there are no witnesses to this event of it s not like you have an identification of a suspect. y