a little time to honor meatloaf who passeded away yesterday. a he g was a really good friend to this show. he s a good friend of the five . he was just a really sweet, authentic, genuine person. he gave me five of his cds and his favorite meatloaf cds sat down and went through each one of them with me e to tell me why he loved these cds. he he was just a great person, great friend. he willso benngr missed. meanwhile, let s go over to our walter kirn update. how you feeling right now, walter? is it is it cresting? you took it about an hour ago in the five milligram oxycodone. yeah, i ve sat on i ve satf on this set many times, but i ve never noticed that the river in that backdrop iser ali> . yes, y it is back . i just saw a giant bass jump. it is. you re right. it is. that is not the drug. that is the actual river i in that scene. yes. well, that ss good. walter, please tell meatloaf we miss him. yeah, yeah. you mean i m going his way? well, i think you re almost
time yesterday, they don t think they have to evacuate it today. there have been some evacuations and power outages. gregg: saw tree limbs floating by you behind you. that is a real problem. what are the locals saying about this thing. reporter: i want to bring in larry keller the mayor of new hope. you were telling me you re basically dancing today because this could have been so much worse. a lot worse. i just received word from our emergency management center they are projecting it cresting at 12 feet 9 inches. reporter: which means what? it means we will have minimal damage in town versus the original prediction of 17 feet 8 inches. we ll be back in action by tomorrow. reporter: main street is closed, businesses shut down, no outside traffic but they are not going to be underwater. they are not going to be underwater. i ll continue the curfew until tomorrow morning at 7:00am, everybody will be cleaning up
officials are focused on this one 26-mile stretch of a dirt road to nowhere. it s actually the levee. see the crew on the left hand side, it s for the yazoo and mississippi river. this levee is holding it back. however, there s one foot between the level of the water and when it goes over the top. the prediction is it s going to go over the top. we were talking with the secretary of state of mississippi, they expect it to happen overnight. water going over the levee is not the end of the world unless it triggers the collapse of the levee. they don t want to guesstimate. i put the question of how bad it would be with peter. here is what he said. if this levee were to fail, what are the consequences and who would be impacted and how far? the town is 30 to 35 miles from here. that town would be under water. numerous towns would be under water. highways under water. thousands of people have to evacuate the area. hundreds of thousands of acres would be under water. we would floo
give you an idea of the amount of flow that s coming down this river. we crested or we hit almost 48 feet last night. not quite the record set back in 1937. and the river has kind of bit of an ebb and flow, hasn t fall than much. we don t expect it to fall rapidly throughout the day today. it will take several days before we get this thing below major flood stage. it will take several more days before we get it below flood stage. so we re talking about issues here that go well beyond is it cresting, are those homes going to get back into dry land. about a thousand homes have been affected by these floods. a number of businesses and apartment complexes as well. schools also affected by this. not just, you know, will the levees hold because they have held, but the problem is, with that kind of pressure for that long, you know, these levees really aren t designed for that. the mississippi governor spoke to that yesterday as well. we re going to have levels of the mississippi river hig
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