this is a nightmare scenario in southern ill, just west of miller city. the mississippi river has now broken through the small levee. according to cnn affiliate kfvs the river is flowing miles into the river and completely surrounding two small towns. here is the illinois governor bruce rayner. the levee breached in five locations and the water is coming over in a pretty high pace. hundreds of farmers have been asked to evacuate. unfortunately the families we have contacted so far say they don t want to evacuate and want to stay with their homes. having a flood when it s cold like this is different than when
to move forward and it was signed by the president yesterday. a nightmare scenario in southern illinois west of miller city as the mississippi river breaks through the small levee. according to cnn affiliate kfvs the water is surrounding two small towns. let s go to allison chinchar who is joining us live. the next couple of days this water will continue to flow into several more states, making this even motive sdedevastating for many people. 15 states with flood watches or warnings of some kind throughout the area. the reason for that is we still have over 250 locations across the midwest and the southeast that are reporting either at or above their flood stage. we have all of the water from that rain the last two weeks, it will ooevent flow from the missouri, river, arkansas, and ohio down into the mississippi
they have just started to vote so no conclusion yet. welcome back to the lead. the national lead now, it is in every sense of the word a massacre. we are just getting new information from police on the gunman who went on a door-to-door shooting spree in a small town in missouri murdering at least seven people before killing himself. we now have his name and we know he was related to at least a few of the victims. joining us now live from tyrone missouri is kathy sweeney. she is from our affiliate kfvs. kathy, thanks for joining us. what do we know about the shooter? who was he? reporter: jake the shooter has been identified as 36-year-old joseph aldridge. he lived a few miles down the road in tyrone. we are actually in houston, missouri at the texas county justice center where the sheriff just had a news conference a short time ago. aldridge lived with his mother 74-year-old alice aldridge the elderly woman authorities say was found dead of natural causes in one of the residences.