it s vicksburg, mississippi. that s where dan springer joins us live now. has it gotten better today? reporter: no, it s not gotten better but we are still waiting for the crest which is expected next thursday. we are at 56.2 feet, just above the all-time record set back in 1927. but for the most part, unless the levees fail in this region, the damage that has been done is all the damage we re going to see. but as any natural disaster, luck plays a part of it and a few feet to make a big difference. let me show you what i m talking about here. on this side of the railroad tracks, we have homes that are a little bit above the ground and they are still fine. completely dry. now as we pan the camera back over, we will show you on the opposite side of the railroad tracks, just 100 yards away or so from the homes we showed you that are dry. under water. homes after home after home, also some cars we see. and, you know, not only are we seeing homes that are under water here but this is goi
give you an idea of the amount of flow that s coming down this river. we crested or we hit almost 48 feet last night. not quite the record set back in 1937. and the river has kind of bit of an ebb and flow, hasn t fall than much. we don t expect it to fall rapidly throughout the day today. it will take several days before we get this thing below major flood stage. it will take several more days before we get it below flood stage. so we re talking about issues here that go well beyond is it cresting, are those homes going to get back into dry land. about a thousand homes have been affected by these floods. a number of businesses and apartment complexes as well. schools also affected by this. not just, you know, will the levees hold because they have held, but the problem is, with that kind of pressure for that long, you know, these levees really aren t designed for that. the mississippi governor spoke to that yesterday as well. we re going to have levels of the mississippi river hig
that they last saw in 1927. and new orleans, bad flooding history there. but when the river crests later this month, it will be close to a record set back in 1922. back to memphis where they ve already put half a million sandbags in place. reporter: t.j. as the flood makes its slow rise into memphis, people here are in a nervous guessing game. should i stay or should i go? four days from its projected peak and the mighty mississippi is not done with memphis by a long shot. a few houses already in the water. the owners apparently heeding evacuation warnings. neighbors on a little higher ground, still not so sure. it s 45 now, it s supposed to come to 48. if it goes over 48 we ll probably have to move. how much faith do you have in those predictions? goodness, i don t know. reporter: all along the
15 counties there. we have elizabeth live in memphis. that water level could break the previous record set back in 1927? it absolutely could, harris. i am in the middle of beal street. it would normally be filled with brake lights . this water is continuing to fill up the streets. we know that 300 homes have been inundated in the area of memphis. a mobile home park was wiped out and we spoke with representatives of the army corp of engineers. they are working 12 shifts back to back to keep an eye on the levees and the lower levels are filling up now. they are going door to door to evacuate families and get them to shelters. they want to do it before
chicago. we re pushing somewhere 19, 20 inches of snow at this time and, of course, everyone is looking at the record set back in 1967 which was 23 inches. they are talking about two feet of snow. who knows. we may get it yet because it s still coming down. also conedison in illinois says about 60,000 people don t have any electricity. kevin, thanks a lot for that. i wanted to mention a couple of things here. tulsa, oklahoma got 14 inches of snen a record for that city. the tulsa world said it would not be able to print the newspaper for the first time in its 6-year history. it was all electronic. the headline was snowed in. we are getting an update from the red cross saying they have opened 73 shelters in nine states for people to go to who either don t have power or have been stranded in some other way. let s go to suburban, philadelphia. the weather channel scott williams is in king of preshia,