we go to our meteorologist jaqui jeras. i said imagine if it was happening here obviously this would be the lead story and we d be doing breaking news coverage continuing. this is devastating. it really is. imagine like the mississippi river swollen about 25 times its normal size. that s kind of the equivalent of what s been taking place here in pakistan along the indis river. we have before and after pictures we want to share. this is what it looks like noormly in the before and then the after you will see that it swells. you can see how wide that becomes so it s about ten miles on either side of all of this water. now, some cresting has taken place but down here near sukkur is near the worst and some type of dam there has been blocking it up a little bit so a secondary crest is going to be very possible. this has been weeks and weeks of very heavy rain. we heard the mention of the monsoonal rains and what happens is this time of the year we get those winds coming in more out of the
officials fearing a second wave of death from contaminated water. i ll give awe google map of the indis river. that s, they re concerned about a second crest moving through. and hitting on friday. which is going do prevent people from getting to their homes. cause further stress on structures like dams. you can see that the flooding starts in the north of the country and goes all the way to crashi. you can see it on the bottom left of your screen. karachi is a port city, that s the end of the country. this is massive. we want to show you another map, comparing the mississippi river on the right to the indus river in pakistan on your left. the mississippi is about 300 miles longer than the indus. almost all of the indus is flooding. the mississippi carries a little more water. imagine if it were the entire length of the mississippi. from iowa to the gulf coast. to the mississippi delta and louisiana. and then ten miles wide.