major disaster on our hands and to prevent more rising. i want to go to look at the river which is half a mile wide, and now in downtown memphis, it is three miles across. so tell me where you are standing david mattingly, and how deep it is right there. well, brooke, this is an interesting location. this is river front drive, and back behind me is where it intersects beale street, that famous street for entertainment in memphis, and fortunately all of the bars and the clubs are on the hillside, but down here where it meets the river, you can see the water coming in. we are almost to the crest. we are just inches away from this river reaching its highest point here in memphis. it will be short of a record, but this is historic flooding. no one here has seen anything like this in generations. strangely enough, while we see this massive amount of water along the waterfront and along the mississippi, the problems around memphis have been on the tributary, and those are the riv