it down as well. we have over 443 river flood warnings right now with the stages up and down from texas the to areas of northern florida all of the i way toof the way o florida, and the areas of the great lakes, and the stationary front has been the main culprit for this, and most of it moving o out, and several days for the rain, randi, to make it from the small streams and lakes into the tributaries, and so we will see these crests going higher, and we le see more warnings as the merrimack, and the mississippi and the missouri will crest and make its way down stream. it is a terrible situation. it is. and thank you, tom, to be with us and you know that area so well. stick with us, because i want to bring on the phone, collene who is with the missouri fema
and mississippi as well possibly. but that is just the mississippi river. but there are so many who live in the larger rivers of essential areas where there is a lot of farmland. and what is this going to be doing to the farmland there? you are the expert, but how deep is some of the wear the? well, i drove through it two days ago, and in fact, all of the rivers and the the streams were quite wide, and crossing over the bridges, the water was rising burk it lo rising, but it did look like the farmland that was inundated. but again, it is int wither, and the farmers know more than i would with the winter wheat and things of that nature, but right now, it is watching the populated areas a along the mississippi and the other rivers as mention ed. again, the evacuation are west alton the right now, and the consolidated north county levee, and that is a concern we will be watching for several days. and tell me what kind of warning, collene, from the st.
confidential and matthew wald and collene a pilot, she is with us as well, and also joining us by phone, and also i want to tauklk about the pilots, and the precautions. should two people be in the cockpit at all times, and does it surprise you that there was possibly only one person in the cockpit? well, don i don t want to spoil the party here, but there is certain security protocols that i am not comfortable to talk about on camera. matt made some good point, and richard did as well. with but the most important of which were that there is so much of this that we don t know yet, and we are dealing with the leaks, and secondhand reports and pure speculation, and i m
this is the third bid and in 1988 he ran as a libertarian and ran four years ago and check this out, randi, most recent poll hypothetical between ron paul and barack obama, of course, the democratic nominee, and only seven points separate the two, and in our poll, ron paul does better in a hypothetical head-to-head against the president than any other republicans. stay tuned for that one, randi. getting interesting. thank you, paul. your next political update from the best political team on television is an hour away. so if you see a policeman or someone making a routine traffic stop and you whip out the video camera and start taping, in one woman s case that got her in trouble. collene was in new jersey when she saw police officers confront a man who appeared to be drunbling and she took out the camera and started to taping, and the officers pulled her off of the bus and erased the video on the phone and kept her
mississippi river. our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the water s got to go somewhere, and that somewhere is farmland and swamps. bayous and hamlets to the west and south. talking thousands of homes, maybe 25,000 people at the mercy of a no-win situation. river is still rising everywhere you see an the crest is really taking its time, still almost a week away from vicksburg. it is supposed to crest may 19th. also we have new orleans here. that s about ten days away. may 23rd it is supposed to crest. and here is the morganza spillway. all right? right there. here s tha