now coming through. the channel is basically bowing. julie: i see pictures there of the national guard helping out. i have can t imagine the damage that will be left behind once the water recedes. what happens to people who lost their h omes?
make it? i don t know. reporter: emergency crews are doing the same thing for a nearby school, piling on a six-foot dirt barrier. just one more wall in what s turning into a city of mazes divided by freshly built berms and bracing for the worst. what do you do? you do what you can. you go. reporter: and this is just the beginning. the peak for this river isn t supposed to come till sunday. and by then up to 4,000 homes could be under water. neal karlinsky, abc news, minot, north dakota. another rising river, the missouri, is threatening to flood two nuclear plants in nebraska. parts of the ft. calhoun station near omaha are under water. it was shut down in april for refuelling and operators are not planning to restart it until the water recedes. water s within inches of another plant downriver but it s still operating. incredible. what a mess. taking a look at your weather. gusty winds, hail and also some flooding from nashville, lexington and birmingham all the
river, rise to go historic levels. some residents are sticking around to try to protect their property, others are grabbing belongings, and hoping they have homes to return to once the water recedes. we are sandbagging and building up the area, and everyone kind of gave up and we re just moving everyone is moving out now. hopefully we can salvage our house and see what happens from there. jon: similar stories are playing out up and down the missouri river. residents in the town of hamburg, iowa are preparing to leave if a temporary levy there fails to hold. the town s permanent levy collapsed last week. jenna: it s not one thing, it s another. we feel for all of you going through this extreme weather. we ve been telling you a lot about arizona as well. you know, arizona is has attack firefighters across the state to prevent any wildfires from starting. the state is in the middle
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are the consequences and who would be impacted and how far? the town is 30, 35 miles from here. that town would be under water. have you numerous towns under water and all major highways and thousands of homes would be under water and hundreds of thousands of acres would be under water and we d actually flood about 1.2 million achers. officials are hoping and praying the possibility of an all-out levee failure is small, but they can t rule it out. until the water recedes, these will be very nervous days and nights, all along the levee. the projections are that the water will rise exactly a foot and that is how much free space there is right now.