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The Mississippi River near Vicksburg, looking Northeast at the Interstate 20 bridge, the confluence of the Yazoo River is in the foreground. The photo was taken by a drone flown by Jim Alvis and Mike Manning of the U.S. Geological Survey in the summer of 2016. Image credit: USGS
A team of scientists including a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist is forecasting this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or “dead zone,” an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life, to be approximately 4,880 square miles, a bit smaller than the state of Connecticut.
MORGAN CITY, Miss. (AP) Officials in Mississippi need to install a barrier that would prevent vehicles from going into the Yazoo River near a rural intersection where one road dead-ends into another, a grieving mother says. Mary Saffold Sanders' 37-year-old daughter, Lasheila Williams, and Williams’ 41-year-old boyfriend, Anthony Jones, died this month when they were in a car that ran off a road and plunged into the river near Morgan City..
May 7, 2021 By Frank McCormack
It’s been more than 50 years since the Port of Vicksburg was founded on the Yazoo River Diversion Canal, north of where the Yazoo River meets the Mississippi River in Warren County, Miss.
The venture has proven a significant anchor for the region, with the port and its tenants accounting for a pre-pandemic workforce of more than 4,000 employees across 21 industries. Tenants include Ergon and Ergon Refining, Magnolia Marine, Gavilon, Citco, Falco Chemical, Anderson Tully, DTE Petcoke, Waring Oil, MS Lime Company, Smith Towing Company, Neill Gas and CAM2 International. Besides its tenants, Watco Companies LLC serves as the terminal operator for the public terminal, and both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard also maintain bases of operation within the port’s slackwater harbor.
Thursday Weather Webcast Updated: 7:27 AM CDT Apr 15, 2021 Updated: 7:27 AM CDT Apr 15, 2021
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Show Transcript All right, here s the radar this morning, looking at that rain that s moving out of the south Mississippi and today it will be a little bit of a time to dry. A little bit of a reprieve in between. These rain systems are right now, temperatures in the upper fifties, mid fifties up to the North Greenwood and Greenville. We have the skies that are breaking a little bit, allowing for a little bit of sunshine but the skies are going to cloud back over again tonight and we have more rain in the forecast. Unfortunately for your friday 58 right now, northeast wind it around nine helping to bring some of that drier air into the area. 56 at Carthage 55 Kazi esko 60 for Port Gibson and Fayette 62 degrees down in Macomb. And so we have a cold front which is moving down across the region this morning. We have a stalled front along the gulf coast an