we talk about what people are doing to protect their homes. this is one of the most amazing pictures that i ve seen. if the mississippi has tried to swallow your home, what do you do? do you leave, build sand bags? no. these folks have built a stadium. they will not have neighbors by the time this is done. if the levees do hold, they ll be the only ones certainly left standing there. an unbelievable feet there, folks are trying to do to protect their property. cresting in vicks burg and we re holding steady. that s the key in new orleans. and the reason we re doing that is because of the morganza spillway that we opened allowing for that volume to go elsewhere and not into new orleans. here s the baton rouge river gauge and we re holding steady. we ll continue to monitor that. that s going to take some time
so there s nothing left to do, but work, watch, and worry. david mattingly, cnn, natchenat mississippi. worry and wait. the waiting game continues. let s go to meteorologist ivan cabrera at the world weather center. ivan. we re cresting in someareas, but it s also it has risen, expanded here in geography. it s just amazing what it s done. i ll share the map with you here, and you can appreciate the distance we re talking about. here is the area that s covering, of course, that s being impacted by this disaster. the mississippi, where is it in this blue here? there it is winding around as where it should be. it is now 40 kilometers wide. it s about 25 miles. incredible stuff, the likes of what we are not going to see for the rest of our generation. it is a 100 to 200-year plight.
is a game for adventurers. and the river doesn t quit. there used to be dirt all the way out to here. all of this is karched away. reporter: howard jones is the fourth of five generations at the j.m. jones lumber company in natchez, mississippi. building up and trying to hold together a levee that keeps his family s business from being swept away. are you confident you can hold the river back? absolutely not, no. i mean i m confident that it s not going to go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i d say it s 50/50. reporter: it s been four weeks since. up to eight feet higher in some places. now they re constantly plugging, bagging and patching what the
film festival is under way but you wouldn t know it to look at the cover of this popular magazine. a picture of anne sinclair, growing sympathy for this woman, growing position and humiliating position she s in after the serious charges leveled against her husband. monita. ivan, thanks so much. you re watching world one live from london. flee the flood or fight it. the family business trying to outmuscle the mississippi. and bombers in pakistan take aim at americans. a deadly attack in peshawar. [ manager ] you know. i ve been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i d like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job.
yeah? you did a really good job, okay? let s go back to drawing. the state of mississippi has reported its first loss of life in the current record floods. a 69-year-old man drowned as high waters swept through the city of vicksburg. the mississippi river there has swollen to four meters above flood stage. businesses in tu knee ka and north of the state are starting to reopen but others remain at the mercy of the water. one of them is a centuries-old business in the historic town of natchez. they ve chosen not to flee, but fight. reporter: fighting at the sea