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people sleep, where the hotels are, they can be on dry land. at this point, they re inundated and surrounded by water. there s about nine of them that line this stretch. i m in front of the gold strike casino. they re doing an unusual thing in order to keep the water out of the lobby here. these blue bags are basically big bladders and they re filled with mississippi river water and they re acting as sand bags and they re keeping a watertight seal to this river. so far, so good as long as the river doesn t crest three or four feet about what we expect, they re going to be fine. when the water recedes, you just empty those out and wheel they are on their way. but the folks who live in the tunica cutoff, that s where 200 homes have been inundated with flood waters. the people in this community are struggling not only with where they live, but financially with the bread and butter of their community being shut down right now. and according to the mayor of

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