don t know. reporter: the utility companies are already out moving their equipment higher up the poles to keep it all dry. it s going to be high. it s going to be high. we can t predict how high but just in case we want to make sure that we provide service. hopefully when the water recedes. and the customers come back in. reporter: at police academy the home of search-and-rescue team they had to move by boat. tommy told us, it s all too depressing. so it breaks your heart? well there s better days coming. reporter: steve osunsami, abc news, memphis. flood waters are now surrounding the louisiana state penitentiary. in angola. and the warden is putting those inmates to work. making them fill 60,000 sandbags to protect that prison. they re also building a tent city. need it if the levee fails and
been obliterated, clearly it s a desperate situation. you have any idea where this death toll is going to end up? is it still impossible to put any real gauge on it? reporter: it s really impossible. we spoke to a number of search and rescue people and they tell us, until the water recedes, they re really not going to know. we heard anderson talking about how search and rescue crews are using sticks. that s what they re all using. their putting sticks into debris and dry land. they re waiting untding in the it is extremely difficult. in some cases the water does remain up to chest high. so what they re telling us is until the water recedes out of that area, they can t do an accurate death toll. they can tell us how many people are missing, they think. but they re still not even shore of an exact toll of the missing. communications remain extraordinarily difficult. and the evacuation centers near
any real gauge on it? reporter: it s really impossible. we ve spoken to a number of search and rescue people, and the military as well, and what they tell us is, until the water recedes, they re really not going to know. we heard anderson talking about how search and rescue crews are using sticks. that s what they re all using. their putting sticks into debris and dry land. they re wading in the water but it is extraordinarily difficult for them. in some cases the water does remain up to chest high. so what they re telling us is until the water recedes out of that area, they can t do an accurate death toll. they can tell us how many people are missing, they think. but they re still not even sure of an exact toll of the missing. communications remain extraordinarily difficult. and the evacuation centers near the tsunami zone here in sendai, the way people are getting messages to each other, is by going from evacuation center to evacuation center, and leaving
what they re now waiting for is when the water recedes, they can get a better assessment of how many people are in the rubble. so many people you talk to say, my wife is missing or my son is missing, pie grandmother is missing. and they re all saying, and you hear it again and again first of all, they have a very shocked look on their face. they re still shell-shocked. they say, we haven t heard from them. they re where out there. you can see that hope just starting to fade every hour that pass passes. kyung, thank you very much. it sounds extraordinarily bad in that town. this is a story that we ll likely hear repeated many, many times over the next few days. you can find out how you can make a difference in japan. all you have to do is go to our website impact your world page.
upstate new york and throughout the tri-state area and it s not over yet. the river is expected to crest in about three hours, we re expecting six to eight inches before the water recedes. gregg: what a scene. live in new jersey, julie, thanks. people in new jersey not the only ones dealing with serious flooding. in ohio, floods turned deadly. swollen rivers being blamed for the death of a river that crashed into a ditch. more rain may be on the way. maria molina is live in the fox extreme weather center. out in new jersey and all that rain for the past two days, extreme to say the least. we feel so sorry for all those folks. there may be more on the way? i hate to say it we are watching another storm system as we head into next week that will organize itself, first across the southeast and move into the northeast. first we want to pointed out we mentioned the northeast not the