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visit exelonpatchoffer.com. live from america s news head quarters. a dangerous situation in missouri where floodwater from the mississippi river has breached a levee north of st. louis. authorities are urging some residents to leave their homes. crews are plug ago sand boil on the levee to help contain it and one top county official believes the worst of the flooding has passed. the latest on the hunt for answers into the boston marathon terror attacks. f.b.i. poring over evidence near a landfill near massachusetts dartmouth. where 19-year-old suspect dzhokar tsarnaev went to school and was allegedly spotted in his dorm room just days after the april 15th bombings. investigators are looking at the suspect s mother and whether she
expected to stay had high for days. life up and down the mississippi river has become one of survival and a torturous waiting game. nine states are affected. millions of acres flooded. tens of thousands of people have lost their homes an thousands more are about to. david mattingly joins us downstream in nach chtchez, mississippi where the flood is expected to crest on saturday. the army corp of engineers is keeping a watchful eye on that yazoo levee but the backwaters are already claiming property. what s the situation where are you? reporter: the situation is the same thing we ve seen all up and down the mississippi. right now we are waiting for the crest here just as we ve seen a little further north, just as we saw last week in memphis. the water creeping up to that crest, that historic level. right now all eyes are a little further north of here on the mainline levee along the mississippi here in the state of mississippi. the army corp of engineers addressing what they re call
educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america s interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don t like, the regimes we don t like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn t talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is saudi arabia. but he also then went on to talk about ways to consolidate these revolutions, talking about the arab-israeli peace process. he s tougher on syria than he has been. he was more explicit in his support for two states, israel and palestine on 1967 borders, plus mutually agreeable land swaps. so very comprehensive. i have a feeling though that while it will be well received in the regio
neighborhoods, as far as can you see. and in tucked away places, all across the bayou, there is some very important spots to watch. this is one of them. this is a sand boil. sand boil? where the mississippi river is running underneath through the dirt and ground and then bubbling up on the outside. shepard: this is a mile from the river. these boils are everywhere. being watched by volunteers. if they start spewing, especially with sand, the levee is buckling. it could undermine the levee. the levees sink and then you have overtopping of the levee. that could be a disaster. it could be a catastrophe. so far catastrophe has been averted. it s taken weeks of work. and who is the sheriff giving credit? the unsung heros and the true heros, if there are any in this event, will be the inmates up and down this river who have worked tirelessly and sandbagging and all types of operations to protect the people and property. they have saved this