thank you for being with us that is imminent. can i get one thought before we talk about the situation incident, about the british government announcement tonight. they have taken out 1500 people and say the number of people trying to get out has slowed or is slowing. do you think they have gotten everybody out that they need to get out? it’s out that they need to get out? it s a lunch out that they need to get out? ut s a lunch extremely unlikely that they would ve gotten out everybody who needs to get out. obviously the dependence and so on couldn t be taken out and people who were working in the uk but not uk passport holders were not allowed to board the aircraft was at the same time, of course, these plates have to come to an end at some time because a situation on the ground is risky. i i hope a route with open up incident and it would be safe enough for people to go there if they need to leave. we for people to go there if they need to leave. ~ , ., ., to leave. we ust heard
joining us is sergeant keith hefner from popular bluffs police department. thank you for joining me. thank you. what is the latest on the situation there? well, tamron, at this point obviously this has been a severe situation incident for us in general since late friday night early saturday morning. we ve experienced approximately 15 inches of rain over the last four days, some of that coming 5 and 6 inches at a time. not only are we dealing with the flooding from the black river, which is above 16 foot flood stage but also from the flash flooding due to the extent of the heavy downpours. we have had some severe weather. we ve been rather fortunate as far as tornadoes, we ve been under a few warnings. we do not have any reportable damage in the immediate poplar bluff area from that. most of ours is water related. we received over roughly 3,100 phone calls since 10:00 p.m. on saturday night. several of those being 911 calls. we re now well above 70 water