shepard: just incredible. the last thick you want to worry about is money but you have to. what is this going to cost. mayor maddox told me just to clean up the debris is going to cost somewhere between 70 to $100 million just in tuscaloosa. you can imagine that across a 600-mile swath from southern mississippi all the way up into tennessee and parts of virginia. shep, this is going to take billions of dollars to fix. shepard: billions of dollars. john roberts live tonight in tuscaloosa alabama, thank you. the army corps of engineers now intentionally blown a levy in an attempt to save several towns along the mississippi river. looky here. that s what it looked like last night. these are pictures from today, actually. this morning, the water flowed past the leyy on to more than 100,000 acres of farms. they actually blew up the levy
their lives. our senior correspondent john in too fast; this place looks very much like it did the day after the storm. we took a helicopter tour with mayor wall tar maddox of tuscaloosa that s where you get real appreciation how widespread this damage is. all the way to the center of some neighborhoods out to the eastern end of town. the mayor says the progress is going to be measured in terms of inches and going to take a long, long time for than a year for the city to get back so some semblance of normal. as the attention of the nation turns to other news like the osama bin laden capture and killing that what happened here in too tuscaloosa is going to fl off the radar screen. sad. we all took the events that took