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Declared a disaster area. today shell-shocked residents returned to see what if anything is left standing. the red cross and national guard are there now. officials say utilities could be out for weeks. people in north dakota and fargo, as a matter of fact, are breathing a sigh of relief right now because so far those dikes and sandbags holding back the red river have worked. river crested at nearly 40 feet just under the 44 foot levy. lighter than expected late rains staved off a flooding disaster. 22,000 japanese troops launched an extensive search. nearly 15,000 people are still missing and more than 13,000 others have been confirmed dead. tomorrow marks one month since the disaster struck. community across the country will hold a moment of silence. we wpt to get back to war-torn libya. ....
Dikes already. the ones that are left here yet down the line, they are doing real good. not having much problem. the river appears to be leveling off the in the fargo area. but it may not be over yet in that region or places close by. alex, they were saying it hit 39 feet. that s a huge crest. i was thinking it s like four stories high. will we see more weather to help them avert it in. we are going to see more rain coming into these areas. we may be talking about it cresting a bit, it may be coming down. rivers may come back with more rain coming in. le all thanks to this storm system in the plains and mitd west. it will organize into the afternoon. we ll see more energy coming out of the west and that will kick start more storm this is afternoon. already quite a bit of action through the great lakes this ....
Air tankers have dropped at least 58,000 gallons of retardant on that fire. the prepping is done, now all residents in north dakota and south dakota is wait and watch. for a third year in a row, the red river is expected to crest above flood stage. today crews in fargo piled up sandbags and added to dikes along the river. it s expected to crest sometime tonight or tomorrow. absolutely astonishing. it s nothing i ve seen before. and we re going to be dealing with a lot of the issues for, you know, a long time this year. it s going up an inch a day. at some point, we ve got to reach i mean, how full can this lake get? you know? thousands of residents, thousands of them could be forced from their homes if the sandbags and dikes don t hold. dutch police say they have identified the gunmen in a deadly rampage in the netherlands. seven people were killed and 16 of them wounded when the shooter ....
A slow moving storm system is drenching the midwest and many states are bracing for flooding now. emergency crews in ft. wayne, indiana, were busy constructing five-foot dikes for already swollen rivers. areas could see up to 3 inches of rain. let s go to the weather channel s julie martin live in russ ls point, ohio, on skype and in her car broadcasting to us. good morning. reporter: good morning, alex. some of our gear is a little waterlogged so i am coming to you from inside the vehicle via skype. now this area, keep in mind, is not just today s rain but the rain here very hard. earlier this the week it led to flash flooding in conjunction with lake flooding so a number of swift water rescues in this very neighborhood and now the residents here are having to deal with all of this once again as we have picked up significant rain overnight and we re expecting that trend it to continue throughout the day today here in north central ....
The problem with the deficit is that we need to bring it down over the next ten years to 15 years. what s imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession, and the reason it is still in recession is that we don t have enough spending. as we talked about before, the investors won t spend on investment. they ve already got more capacity than they need. consumers are still worried, they re not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with capacity to spend. and it has so many essential things it should be doing. roads are worn out, bridges collapsing, dikes about to collapse that will in undate cities below them. there are lots of things we should be spending on now. the deficit is a problem for months and years after the economy is back at full unemployment. what about the idea the republicans proposed about $61 billion worth of spending cuts. as you say, the deficit is not a made up problem, it is worth ....