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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110501:23:37:00

their primary message was to reassure survivors they won t be forgotten and the federal government will provide the needed assistance. flooding is a problem in other places. the tiny illinois town of cairo is facing pressure from rising water on both the ohio and mississippi rivers. the army corps of engineers is considering blowing up the levee in missouri to ease the pressure. that could save the town but it would send floodwaters pouring across thousands of acres of missouri farmland. missouri has already lost one court case to stop the demolition. it is now asking the u.s. supreme court to step in now. monday s launch of the space shuttle endeavour has been delayed a week. nasa says it will now be next sunday at the earliest. the delay was prompted by concerns over the shuttle s heating system. arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords was in florida but returned to houston today where she s been in rehab after being shot by a would-be assassin. she plans to return to florida

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110509:05:48:15

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110509:05:03:00

more at stake. 80 miles of shoreline along western kentucky on the ohio river. 120 miles from commerce, missouri down the mississippi to helena, arkansas. these are all areas with levees that could have been overtopped by the rising river, walsh says, if he hadn t acted. and when the time came, after consulting with scores of engineers and experts, it was his decision to make and make alone. so you re it. you re the top of the chain of command. you didn t have to kick this up to the white house or anybody like that to say hey, we re going to flood a significant portion of missouri? certainly we keep the vertical chain in alignment and informed on what decisions i make. but the decision in accordance with the program is for the president of the mississippi river commission. and that s you? and that s me. and there wasn t much time. just eight days from an alarming weather forecast to walsh s worst fears coming true. how did this affect you

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110504:10:14:00

14 minutes past the hour. we ve been following the devastating flooding that s been taking place in our country s midsection and now they re resorting to extreme measures to try to stop it. the army corps of engineers blasting out some 11,000 feet of levee along the mississippi river. they re trying to ease those floodwaters, threatening many towns in illinois and others upstream. the explosions shook the ground for miles, witnesses report. it also sent water pouring on to thousands of acres of missouri farmland, an area that missouri governor jay nixon described as the most productive part of our co continent. check out this in popular bluff, missouri, where levees began to crumble last week, the national guard rescued a 93-year-old woman from a car submerged in muddy raging floodwaters. and i want to show you these two images from nasa. look at the left. this is the area around cairo,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110502:02:01:00

live statement. other breaking news tonight as well, this time it s out of missouri. an appeal to the u.s. supreme court has failed to stop a proposal to blow up a major levee. that might save the town of cairo, illinois, but it would flood thousands of acres of missouri farmland. the decision to blast a two-mile hole in the levee now rests with the army corps of engineers. and our susan candiotti joins us now. susan, what does this mean? reporter: well, it means that if, in fact, they move forward with the plan to blow up this levee, then there s going to be a lot of land flooded, as was expected, in an area of missouri here. it s an area where the ohio and the mississippi river comes to a confluence. so at this hour tonight, i can tell you that the governor of missouri was not expecting that the supreme court would give him a favorable decision to hold off on plans to move forward blowing this levee up. because he says at this point we

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