comfy dent th confident that the cooper station is high enough that it will not be affected? yes, that is true. with the army corps of engineers we are confident that we will make our way through this flood season, i guess you would say, because it is going to be a lengthy period of time along the river. i guess that in both of the plants, thep keeper station, and the fort calhoun from what i am reading issued flooding alerts earlier in the month in preparation for the possible flooding that we are seeing, there and this plant is designed to deal with the floods much higher than what we are seeing. with that said at the fort calhoun facility, we saw the berm holding back the river and it collapsed. yes, and i can t speak about fort calhoun, because we have our own materials up. we have various sandbags and other protective measures in place, and we have put in a hesco barrier system, and the plant is very well protected. we were at the plant yesterday
flood protection that they have now. and they re asking folks to be patient. it s very difficult because you have 4,000 homes that are covered in water, some of them all the way up to the rooftop, and people won t be able to even get near them for at least a couple of weeks. if you take a look in the here, this is what downtown minot looks like. we re at the edge of downtown, and as we walk through it, businesses are closed. there are people out of work right now because of this, people out of their homes as well. we talk today the red cross, jon, and they told us their shelter here, they re expecting to get more and more people as the welcome is no longer there for the people who they re staying with now. jon, back to you. jon: alicia acuna in minot, north dakota. wow. what a mess. jenna: flood water seeping into part of a nuclear power plant near omaha, nebraska, the day after a 2,000-foot berm holding back the missouri river collapsed, and officials say the fort calhoun nuclear stat
very deep. that can have a tremendous effect on the dike system. they have put up a secondary dike because the original levees were overrun by the water quite quickly and secondary system they are counting on. they are donut around the building in hoping they hold. it s very important to control to patrol. north dakota national guard is participating, round the clock participation to make sure the protection system maintains and the water slowly goes down. gregg: incredible pictures. alicia, thanks very much. heather: a berm holding that flood water and nebraska nuclear power plant collapsing. it gave way at the fort calhoun nuclear station early this morning. the nuclear regulatory agency there is no danger the plant has been shut down since april for