zoraida? there s a little good news, that they re back into their homes and that business is going to hopefully get back to normal soon. thank you, john. we ll check back in with you. 17 minutes past the hour. rain and snow in the forecast means record flooding across the midwest. the grand river is now more than two feet over flood stage. this is grand rapids, michigan. the mississippi river is topping levees in missouri. and governors have declared disaster areas in iowa and illinois. 40 counties in illinois. cnn s jim spellman is live in spring bay, illinois, where the illinois river has been flooding the streets since sunday. jim, how are the people there holding up? it s definitely stressful. this is a trailer park community just south of where we are right now, about 40 homes there under water. the good news is we haven t heard widespread reports of this kind of damage. but for these sort of small, riverside communities, it s just devastating when this floodwater comes in. ta
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barbara starr in washington. thanks so much. there is other news going on, including a developing story we want to tell you about. let s go back to zoraida. thank you, john. it is a developing story this morning. cnn learning just an hour ago about the arrest of two suspected al qaeda terrorists in spain. spanish officials say the men, one algerian, the other moroccan, have a profile very similar to the boston marathon bombing suspects. although they did not say how. it is also unclear if the pair were planning any attacks. their arrest comes just days before the madrid marathon and that event on sunday is expected to draw 26,000 runners. another developing story that we re following for you this morning an alleged plot to attack a passenger train traveling between canada and the united states. canadian police arrested two men who will appear in court later today. police say the planned attack was real, but they said that the public was never in any danger. they also claim the susp
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thing. but i think we should take a deep breath here, the police said that there is no evidence of state involvement. in other words, iran or any other country being involved. it s not clear whether these folks were aspirational in nature. in other words, didn t really know much, didn t have much confidence but sort of followed this along, and the police were keeping an eye on them. or whether they actually knew what they were doing. they said they got, quote, guidance from al qaeda. and that remains to be defined. what does guidance mean? does it mean active direction by phone, e-mail, whatever, or were they reading things again online and sort of following taking guidance in that way. the press conference yesterday, or last night with canadian mounted police was brief and there weren t a lot of details. so if there s one thing we ve learned this week and from previous experiences, we shouldn t rush to judgment when there are so few details. and we do know we have been told in these