personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. it is half past the hour, and here are some of to stories that you may have missed. the mississippi river nears a record crest in greenville, mississippi. and in louisiana, lowlands are being intentionally flooded to spare new orleans and baton rouge. residents are scrambling to save belongings in the atchafalaya basin. and the bloated river continues to make the relentless approach
hopefully it will be a safe one. in the meantime, an extreme weather alert. record crest expected in greenville, mississippi as it continues to flood the south. jonathan sierry is live for us at a levee that s holding back the water at least for now. at least for now. the river is expected to crest a foot below the record set in 1927, to give you an idea of this levee system, take a look at the old levee. this road that they paved leading up to the casino over here, where it goes up to the top of the hill will show you the height of this levee back in 19 little problem with our audio with jonathan serre live from mississippi. try to get that back shortly. breaking news, a huge story while you were sleeping. shocking confession from former
an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. it s a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. it s made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has an 11 by 13 cell himself, but he is separated from other prisoners, phones, tvs and the internet also. cnn s deborah feyerick has done some digging on the forensics. what did you find? reporter: that s right. everybody is waiting for the result of the forensic to see, in fact, what was found at this hotel, whether, in fact, there is a direct connection to mr. strauss-kahn and the young lady who made these allegations against
there. back in 73 the water went up two sandbags in height. the owner told me the water didn t even get in the building and that was the worst. this time around the forecast about the ten miles away is for it to crest on the 25th in nine days at 11 feet. that would beat the record crest back in 73 by half a foot. we re talking about a record crest, but in the meantime everybody here is pretty much staying put. what you see here is what you re seeing up and down this entire neighborhood. lots of sandbags. even around the local school they ve blown up this inflatable giant looks like a giant black hose kind of like a pontoon around the whole school and they re also building levees on highway 70 which comes out of morgan city to try to keep that road open. they re doing all they can to defeat this water which will start arriving here later tonight and tomorrow. and we ll just have to wait and sigh how high it gets. meanwhile, the river has crested in new orleans at the flood stage at 17
looking to return to work. floods along the mississippi. the slow-moving surge of floodwaters will make its way down the river over the next two weeks. parts of memphis, emergency officials have warned residents they may need to evacuate as water levels are expected to approach a record crest of 48 feet. other stories making headlines on a friday. as americans along the mississippi cope with too much water, residents in texas are in dire need of it. the latest drought monitors there show more than a quarter of the lone star state, almost 68,000 square miles, suffering from a, quote, exceptional drought. authorities in london have completed their inquest into the july 7th subway bombings. a judge has ruled none of the 52 victims would have been saved by a faster emergency response. carl lewis is back on a new jersey ballot for now. the track and field legend had been ruled ineligible to run for state office due to residency restrictions, but a court of