about 12 or 13 more feet to make this area look a little more normal. interstate 44 right there, the bridge right over highway 141. interstate 44 is shut down and will be so most likely through tomorrow. highway 141 could possibly be shut down until monday or tuesday. not to mention, bring an narks we ve been talking about the water treatment facility that was flooded. so we have untreated sewage that is flowing into this river. and so as this water goes down, they are going to have a lot of cleanup. there s going to be sewage, we also have seen a lot of trash dumps floating by not to mention roofs, parts of houses floating by. and also just the mud and silt from the river itself is going to be left behind. so neighborhoods are going to have a lot of work ahead of them. and not to mention like we talked about earlier, all the towns and cities that are south of us, memphis will be hard hit, and we re also looking at a lot of towns along the mississippi river where louisiana and mississi
st. louis and affecting millions of people. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is near st. louis. jennifer, give us a sense here, the mississippi river is cresting near where you are, but how much worse could this get? well, the big problem is going to be all the towns downstream along the mississippi river. this water has a long way to go before it reaches the gulf of mexico. imagine the slowest wave you can think of taking several days to rise in each city and taking several days to lower. we re talking several feet above flood stage and major flood stage in a lot of cases. in fact, st. louis like you said is cresting right now, the mississippi river there. it is not going to break a record, but we are seeing it very, very high. in fact, the meramec river where i m standing in front of actually the river is north of us, this is actually highway 141, it is very high. it actually broke a record. it is now falling. it has fallen more than a foot since this morning, which is good. but it
democratic attitude toward gun control. after 2000 when al gore lost, gun control was deemed radio active in a point where they needed a lot of blue collar whites, rural whites, counting on the states like west virginia, tennessee, arkansas, the democratic coalition has evolved. those voters are now republicans ex you can see they are the same voters powering donald trump s rise. instead democrats relying on a different coalition and urbanized coalition, younger minorities, social liberal whites more receptive to gun control. it s the rare issue that activates both bases. hillary clinton embraced it in a way no democratic candidate and barack obama kept his distance because she recognizes within the voters, the democrats need to win it is largely a winning issue. the price is it does energize and antagonize the voters that moved away from them, the same voters powering donald trump s rise. it s new years eve so time to
marquez. times square.w you re there in - some of the 1 million people who are expected to attend and celebrate new year s eve tonight are already there behind you. tell us about the security situation there. is it obviously heightened? reporter: well, look, it is always very big security here. and i do happen to be with several thousand of my very good friends. [ cheers and applause ] happy new year. happy new year! reporter: it hasn t stopped people from coming out here. you can see this is just a few thousands of the probably million they re expecting here tonight all the way up there to the toshiba sign if you can see it is where the ball will actually come down. 6,000 police officers. the overall contingent is about 800 police officers bigger than normal. so not enormously bigger, but there are a few things that they are using to go around that make it different. bomb sniffing doss in big numbers, radiation detectors,
she was favorite to win and she got schlonged. reporter: now trump faces his first real test from voters, the iowa caucuses, just weeks away. february 1st. get out and vote. thank you. reporter: he s made comments that could inspire a double take from iowa s evangelical voters. when i drink my little wine, which is about the only wine i drink, and have my little cracker, i guess that s a form of asking for forgiveness. reporter: and tried turning iowans away from ben carson by mocking his claims of childhood violence. somebody has to the belt going in, it moves this way, it moves that way. he hit the belt buckle. anybody ever imagine want to try it on me? reporter: at one point trump even knocked voters intelligence. how stupid are the people of iowa? how stupid are the people of the