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Closed highway 61, the main thorough fair headed north. that is being taken over by water. that shored up the levy systems. they re anticipating levies will stay in place as the crest is expected to hit here on thursday at a record level of 57.5 feet. are they trying to calculate the numbers of these these could still rise? reporter: in the past few days we were in an area surrounded by water. it was a barge office. they were anticipating three and a half to four feet. they ve done what they could to shore up the levies. they ve put in emergency walls around the vicksburg area anticipating they may take on ....
Emergency flood gates in louisiana, intentionally flooding millions of acres of land. this to save baton rouge and new orleans. when the spillways open some time in the next 24 hours, seven parishes aare expected to be nooded with reart levwater leveh as 25 feet in some region. the worst flooding in years has swallowed up parts of some neighborhoods. tom with another good morning to you. just how bad is the flooding in slix burg? and is the worst yet to come? the worst is yet to come. it should be about thursday. it will even out at 57.5 feet. that will break a record selt back in 1927. that was the worst flooding in a generation. back then it was the 56 feet. so we re talking more than a foot and a half of water coming through here, topping the previous record. more than 2,000 homes in mississippi have been evacuated. ....
captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello. you re in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i m fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana s biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that s what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn t been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps of engineers, it s a necessary move to protect major cities. they re going to open it slowly so people and wildlife are not caught by surprise. there s a slow opening for a lot of reasons. one is from an engineering perspective. the water will come out of here pretty quickly. you don t want to scour the back side of this structure. from an environmental perspective, ofb yous think there are ....
actually we do want to get the latest on the flooding down south where the mississippi river is higher than it s ever been and the worst is yet to come. nbc s al roker is live for us this morning in vicksburg, mississippi. al, good morning. what are you seeing there? reporter: well, good morning, savannah and chuck and give you a sense, right here, see where those fence that fence is, just beyond that that s the mississippi river. well, you can t tell where the river ends and the land mass begins and they re saying that by sunday, the river should crest at about 57.5 feet. that would mean those fence posts will be underwater. and we are talking about this flooding going to continue on down the river, natchez is next and about may 23rd when we expect a crest of 19 1/2 to 20 feet in new orleans. now, you think, well, that s nowhere near 56, 57 feet here. but when you consider that new ....
Mississippi. al, flooding in four states. difficult situation there. what s the latest? reporter: the latest i m standing in vicksburg. this is the mississippi river. it should be beyond that building but now overrun its banks obviously. in some places, the mississippi is six times as wide as normally would be. in vicksburg, flood stage at 53.6 feet. the record flood stage will be 56 feet, we expect by sunday. they will be at 57.5 feet. this is pushing south. it had a devastating effect economically and psychically on these folks in these states. for example, a lot of riverside gambling has shut down casinos. 13,000 people are out of work through this weekend, at least, probably beyond. the rivers will take time to recede. slow to rise, slow to recede. ....