Yeah. We were scared. Reporter mystery number two, a secret 1600 miles away. There were several Text Messages. Its just slowly snowballing. It was like a punch in the gut reporter and mystery number three . Im mean im gonna hurt you reporter who would they turn out to be . im like, what did this lady do . Reporter faith, temptation. And a twist the size of texas lets be very clear, Justice Needs to be served. I dont think it has been. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Tonight, Andrea Canning with the carrollton plot. Reporter carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. The schools are good. Golf courses dot the landscape. And churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. Theres not a whole lot of Violent Crime in that area. Its a great area to raise kids and a family. Reporter but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. Jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferre
Yeah. We were scared. Reporter mystery number two, a secret 1600 miles away. There were several Text Messages. Its just slowly snowballing. It was like a punch in the gut reporter and mystery number three . Im mean im gonna hurt you reporter who would they turn out to be . im like, what did this lady do . Reporter faith, temptation. And a twist the size of texas lets be very clear, Justice Needs to be served. I dont think it has been. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Tonight, Andrea Canning with the carrollton plot. Reporter carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. The schools are good. Golf courses dot the landscape. And churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. Theres not a whole lot of Violent Crime in that area. Its a great area to raise kids and a family. Reporter but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. Jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferre
this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. mitchell: good evening. for army engineers hoping to keep ahead of the rising mississippi, it is the most drastic step yet. this afternoon they opened the first of the floodgates of the morganza spillway, up stream from baton rouge and new orlea orleans. potentially flooding thousands of square miles of countryside. dean reynolds is in organza with the very latest. reporter: good evening, russ. officials told us this afternoon everyone in the area the water will take 24 hours to reach has already departed and as you can see behind me, with good reason. only one of the 125 gates on this 4,000-foot-long spillway was opened, a cautious first step to give everyone and everything a chance to flee. we ll open one bay today. we ll open one or two tomorrow. and then we ll open gates based upon the river conditions as they exist. reporter: the mississippi is cresting now near helena, arkansas, over 250 miles north of the morga
thanks to remarkable new technology. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. mitchell: good evening. for army engineers hoping to keep ahead of the rising mississippi, it is the most drastic step yet. this afternoon they opened the first of the floodgates of the morganza spillway, up stream from baton rouge and new orlea orleans. potentially flooding thousands of square miles of countryside. dean reynolds is in organza with the very latest. reporter: good evening, russ. officials told us this afternoon everyone in the area the water will take 24 hours to reach has already departed and as you can see behind me, with good reason. only one of the 125 gates on this 4,000-foot-long spillway was opened, a cautious first step to give everyone and everything a chance to flee. we ll open one bay today. we ll open one or two tomorrow. and then we ll open gates based upon the river conditions as they exist. reporter: the mississippi is cres