Improvement across the southeast of england after friday s wash outs. plenty of sunshine and fair weather cloud across much of the country but not sunny everywhere. through the day, certainly later on, cloudy skies with a weather front putting into western scotland, northern ireland and the far south west, courtesy of this new front arriving in gradually as the day wore on. this is going to bring out of patchy rain as we move this evening and overnight into western areas initially and then spreading eastwards into central, northern, southern england and wales. meanwhile, it will start to dry a little bit with skies in northern ireland and scotland by the end and the fire southeast will see clear skies and temperatures quite mild. this ridge of high pressure betting across western areas, this front straddling the country, is a reversal of fortunes, seeing sunnier skies on sunday across scotland and
Stranded by the floods. and also, trains. high water and track wash-outs in high what, nebraska, missouri, union pacific says crews are working around the clock to clear and repair flooded trail lines. amtrak has suspended services because the freights needed to use their lines. the army corps of engineer is reporting in the missouri basin alone, 28 levees have been overtopped or breached. mike tobin, thank you. dana: a maryland mom of five with a lot to celebrate. [screaming]. dana: lakeisha ball battled breast cancer for two years and went to remission twice and relapsed twice. this year, she s cancer free and now she plans to become an advocate to help other women. she got to ring the bell.
Any sense of where the brunt of it is being felt if your state? we believe and we don t know until the sun comes up. our coastline escaped the brunt of this. the worst of it is going to be those debris clearance on rural roads and probable road wash-outs we ve heard reports of bridges that were potentially damaged. we are a big state with a lot of roads. we are bracing for bad news. martha: a lot of lakes and water in the state of maine. any flooding issues? we have lots of flash and local flooding. we don t know how our big rivers are going to react. we go a lot of rain much more than we needed. it takes our rivers a couple of days to react. that s part two. martha: low-lying roads with beautiful waterways. thank you so much. we wish you all the best in the great state of maine.
For more evacuations along the mississippi delta where the rain-swollen big muddy is rising to frightening levels. officials expect to relocate 2 to 5,000 people in the next coming days. now, the water line hit 58 feet earlier this week and is expected to rise to 64 feet on may the 21st. and the ongoing river line wash outs ranked among the worst that had been seen in recent history. within hours of moammar gadhafi s first public appearance in 11 days, his forces suffered heavy set backs and the nation s capital was bombed. yesterday state tv captured him meeting with leaders, the first video of him since the air strikes two weeks ago which claimed the life of his son. in tripoli explosions rocked the neighborhood where his compound is located. a defense secretary roberts
North and south met on the korean peninsula s heavily fortified border for the first time in four months. the talks come amid pressure from both washington and beijing on both countries to take a more proactive stance in easing the tensions between them. the question of independence got a resounding yes from voters in southern sudan. final talleys from last month s referendum show a total of 99% of voters want the region to secede from the north. the vote is being touted as a high point of the region s 2005 peace accord. deadly flooding continues in southeast acia rising waters in sri lanka alone forced tens of thousands of families to evacuate. the wash-outs have killed eight people so far. the good news here is that officials say the water receding, that people may be able to return home within the week. president obama s top campaign advisers are already revving up their record-breaking money machine for the 2012 election. now, last time around they raked in $745 million.