city hotel maid. we ll have the latest. kelly: and deadly border clashes in northeast, at least 13 demonstrators tried to cross into israeli-controlled territory, are shot dead, we ll get a live report. heather: fox news alert, mississippi river flooding, pushing deeper and deeper into louisiana. the army corps of engineers has now opened four good to gates at the morganza spill way this, openings are diverting the surging river, reducing the flooding threat to big cities downstream. but, it is also redirecting the flow into other, smaller communities. and, rick leventhal is live in st. francis, louisiana and, rick, sit the scene for us. rick: this is one of the towns that could benefit from the mar morganza spill way
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romer, joins us to discuss the latest developments and his aspirations politically and the warning avenue what he believes is the number one danger for america, government spending. eric: a fox news extreme weather alert. the heart of louisiana s cajun country, today, bracing for a flooding catastrophe. more floodgates are expected to open later today as the mississippi river continues to crest. just yesterday, the army corps of engineers opened the first spill way, in morganza and that last ditch effort to save large cities like new orleans and baton rouge from disastrous flooding and rick reichmuth is live with the latest. it is heart breaking to know people will have their homes flooded in ural areas in order to save the big cities? rick: yes, it is such a tough thing for anybody to make the decision, sacrifice one area to protect another. knowing that you will do a lot of damage for people and that is the decision they had to make,
unusual and dangerous, maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center and, maria, it is man against nature, how long is nature going to keep fighting us? basically we are looking at mainly flooding areas upstream of the morganza spill way, along the western half of mississippi, also, across arkansas, are still dealing with the major flooding and though cities like new orleans, further downstream, are looking at a bit of a relief from the opening, we are still looking at major flooding across those areas and i want to point out the main reason why all of the flooding really started was because of above average precipitation, further upstream, across parts of the midwest and also, across southeast missouri and western parts of the state of tennessee and so, between january and april, we saw above-average snow and also rain, and, near-record rain or record at times, during the month of april, between april 22nd, and may 2nd, some areas picked up to 21 inches of rain,
and they opened one gate on the morganza spill way to relief the overflow. when you live inside of a, you know, a spillway, that s part of it. shelters are set up to handle 4,800evacuees. one of the places still fighting the rising waters is vicksburg, mississippi. it s also one of the areas hit hard by the flooding. with a good sunday to you, tom, let s get a look at how it looks there today. reporter: it has been rising for the past few days here and the river here in vicksburg is expected to reach the highest since 1927. the water has been steadily