this all the time. and that s why we are doing everything we can to find it. and if we fail, we ll just say, well, we tried. reporter: so far, a $500,000 of company cash has gone into the levee. if it fails, the jones lumber company will probably not be able to recover. so, there s nothing left to do but work, watch and worry. david mattingly, cnn, natchez, mississippi. well, 41 minutes past the hour. a lot of people talking about doomsday today. the prediction that one california pastor made. why you might not be expecting the rapture the cdc is actually trying to get you ready for zombies. this is not a joke. it s there on their website and the man behind it. you ll meet him after the break. ooo. sounds pricey? nah, with the hotels.com summer sale, you can find awesome deals for places nearby. interesting.
well, a century-old family business working overtime to keep the historic floods from causing damage. cnn s david mattingly has this story for us from natchez, mississippi. reporter: fighting the mississippi is a game of vengeance. how far out can you go that is safe? the river doesn t quit. it just caved away right there. there s nothing. used to be dirt all the way out to here. all this is caved away. reporter: howard jones is the fourth of five generations at the jm jones lumber company in natchez, mississippi. but i find him directly in the business of surviving. building up and trying to hold a levee that keeps his family s business from being swept away. are you confident you can hold the river back? absolutely not. no, i m confident that it will not go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i d say it s 50/50.
race getting more crowded in exactly an hour. we will tell you who is announcing a bid today. we do have a developing situation in oklahoma city to tell you about. a manhunt under way for two men wanted for shooting an off-duty sheriff deputy as he worked add a security guard at a restaurant. he was shot without warning, but the shooting was caught on videotape, which may help identify at least one of the suspects. major john waldenville is a 25-year veteran is now listed in critical, but stable condition. also on the same day, general david petraeus predicted a summer surge in high profile taliban attacks. a deadly bombing in afghanistan. a suicide bomber attacking a hospital in kabul. the afghan government puts the death toll at 6 with 26 others injured. also, president obama seeking congressional support for the military mission in libya. under the 1973 war powers act, the president has 60 days to get congressional authorization for military action, if not, the missi
on the morganza spillway. that s designed to take pressure off the levees, but, of course, the water has to go somewhere and it s going to other communities. what about the levees around natchez, mississippi? jeanne meserve is on the river bank there. one part they re dealing with. it looks nice right there. they re dealing with those flood waters, but now we re talking about rain coming into your area. yeah, nobody is looking forward to that, at all. speaking of the levees. a makeshift one built right behind me by homeowners here, by business owners to try to protect these historic properties. you go around the bend and there is about 11 feet of water covering the road and the casino in that river bank has been shut down for business because of the high waters. the water here now at about 61.8 feet. that s way above previous records here. but this city because so much of it is at a high elevation is largely protected. across the river, is louisiana.