well, a century-old family business working overtime to keep the historic floods from causing damage. cnn s david mattingly has this story for us from natchez, mississippi. reporter: fighting the mississippi is a game of vengeance. how far out can you go that is safe? the river doesn t quit. it just caved away right there. there s nothing. used to be dirt all the way out to here. all this is caved away. reporter: howard jones is the fourth of five generations at the jm jones lumber company in natchez, mississippi. but i find him directly in the business of surviving. building up and trying to hold a levee that keeps his family s business from being swept away. are you confident you can hold the river back? absolutely not. no, i m confident that it will not go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i d say it s 50/50.
five generations at the jm jones lumber company, but i find him strictly in the business of surviving. building up and trying to hold together a levee that keeps his family s business from being swept away. are you confident you can hold the river back? absolutely not. no, i mean, i m confident that it s not going to go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i would say it s 50/50. reporter: it s been four weeks since lumber operation ceased and all resources went into building up the company s existing levee. up to eight feet higher in some places. now they re constantly plugging, bag, and patching what the river gouges away. you can tell this is a patch deal here. our primary tarp was ripped. reporter: confounding the problem, river traffic. boats pushing barges upstream
event, and peter handy who is on the trail with mitt romney. shannon, cain may not have the name recognition others have. give us the lowdown on him. some of the things you mentioned, he has solid business experience, a financial background. he was the former ceo of godfather s pizza. he had other experience in other profile executive experience in restaurants. he s going to run on that, don. he s going to run on the fact he has solid business credentials, and he s got immense tea party support. he hopes that will help differentiate him from the more well known names like mitt romney and newt gingrich. part of the announcement was to drum up support, but part was also like a reintroduction. i m herman cain, the business guy, and if you re worried about where the economy is going, i m the one you have to support. this is romney s first trip. tell us what he s doing and why the state is so important. this is the state, mitt romney is the front runner for the republican no
race getting more crowded in exactly an hour. we will tell you who is announcing a bid today. we do have a developing situation in oklahoma city to tell you about. a manhunt under way for two men wanted for shooting an off-duty sheriff deputy as he worked add a security guard at a restaurant. he was shot without warning, but the shooting was caught on videotape, which may help identify at least one of the suspects. major john waldenville is a 25-year veteran is now listed in critical, but stable condition. also on the same day, general david petraeus predicted a summer surge in high profile taliban attacks. a deadly bombing in afghanistan. a suicide bomber attacking a hospital in kabul. the afghan government puts the death toll at 6 with 26 others injured. also, president obama seeking congressional support for the military mission in libya. under the 1973 war powers act, the president has 60 days to get congressional authorization for military action, if not, the missi