great view of the illinois river. but on a bad day, it's in the river, so this is a very bad day for brad rohman. can you tell how deep that is? >> well, it's got to be eight or ten feet deep right there. r: reporter: we floated down lake street past his restaurant. taur is the number-one restaurant in town? >> it's the only restaurant in town. ant in's actually the last business left in this town. >> reporter: it's a total loss and 15 employees are out of work. you had to break the news to them? >> yeah. >> reporter: was that tough? >> it's real hard. >> reporter: parts of illinois had ten inches of rain in ten days. this school bus virtually surfed its route near chicago. and the water came up fast, rising 13 feet in five d spring bay where joe greer eatched from his deck. >> we didn't find out it was going to crest this high or suspected the crest this high ntil thursday at 5:00. 00.reporter: floodwater tore thees from the moorings at marseilles, illinois, this dorning and bunched them like twigs against a damn. to

play by illinois rules? that's what this bill says. that's not coercion. nike can decide they don't want to sell in illinois because they don't want to collect the sales tax in illinois, that's their business decision. let it be. but if they want to come and use the commerce in -- customers in illinois to make a profit, all they have to do is collect the sales tax. why? because their competitors in illinois, the families that have opened the shops and the stores, they're collecting sales tax every day from their customers and finding people showrooming, walking into the running shoe store, trying on all the shoes and saying, just great, let me write something down, see you later. going to the internet and buying those shoes over the internet without paying sales tax. what happens to the store that they just used to try on the shoes? eventually they lose business, sometimes they go out of business. we're trying to level the playing field. no coercion. oregon, make up your own laws for your own citizens and pe

today we're in arthur, illinois, talking to the old amish, trying to understand their lifestyle. now in class, the most important subject that we've been dealing with lately has been doctrine- the power of doctrine, the function of doctrine. why would anyone want to drive a horse and buggy when they can drive this shiny new american car? well, certainly, the horse and buggy gets better gas mileage- i understand it runs on one bale of unleaded hay. but there's a much more important reason why this is. that has to do with the fact that doctrines mean such a great importance to the amish. of the many contributions that come from the protestant reformation, a unique one that comes from the family that the old amish belong to is the vital need to separate from secular society. on one hand, you have the power, the temptation of technology here in arthur, illinois- the amish say, "no way. we're holding back. we're staying with the old style, the lifestyle of previous time." for them, that is the most authentic doctrine that they can come up with- a doctrine that represents the apostolic

starting this hour the eye in the sky is not welcome in illinois illinois is saying not so fast when it comes to drones flying over their state state legislators are putting on the table legislation that aims at limiting drones surveilling their citizens as a new as new light is shot on the privacy that's compromise with drone activity as it turns out they're not the only state considering curtailing the use of drones over their skies illinois is among thirty other states saying no thank you to drone flyovers montana california oregon are among the other some who submitted legislation designed to set up guidelines for drone use earlier i was joined by matthew feeney assistant editor reason twenty four seven who filled us in on illinois new legislation. so i think some of the illinois state legislatures rightly want to make sure that when drones are used by law enforcement that you know that privacy is secure certainly so do you think that this expectation of privacy that people have made in fact be a thing of the past here i certainly hope not i think you know american citizens reall

and governors have declared disaster areas in iowa and illinois. 40 counties in illinois. cnn's jim spellman is live in spring bay, illinois, where the illinois river has been flooding the streets since sunday. jim, how are the people there holding up? >> it's definitely stressful. this is a trailer park community just south of where we are right now, about 40 homes there under water. the good news is we haven't heard widespread reports of this kind of damage. but for these sort of small, riverside communities, it's just devastating when this floodwater comes in. take a look. last minute preps in spring bay, illinois, as floodwaters inundate this river side community. where is your home? >> my home is that gray and white mobile home with the black shutters on it. >> you can't get to your home by foot now? >> no. >> have you ever seen this much water come up here? >> no. >> scary? >> yep. >> the home, along with about 40 others in this trailer community, began to flood sunday and the water has continued to rise. >> yesterday i cried all day. >> reporter: and today? >> today

the illinois, the tributary of the mississippi historic crest monday night into tuesday and the illinois river peoria is the biggest concern, the mississippi river between the quad cities and st. louis the biggest thread, maybe the third worst flooding we've seen and how ironic is it mississippi last spring we had such drought conditions and now we have such flooding and the problem, john and kristine, we have more rain coming this way on tuesday so that's where the biggest problems will be right around that same area. >>

and in researching the history of my own hometown, discovered that -- >> in illinois. >> in illinois, right. that decisions were made 100 years ago, 80 years ago, before i was even born, that were careless, that allowed chemicals to -- like a falling curtain --to seep into the drinking water aquifers there. i drank that. other people drank it. and it raised risks to our health. i'm -- having had bladder cancer at age 20, i'm now 53, i've lived for 33 years as a cancer patient. of all human cancers, bladder cancer is the one most likely to recur. so i'm forever in and out of the hospital. and so i'm always aware, as somebody who lives a highly medicalized life, first of all, that there is high economic cost to creating medical problems, chronic medical problems in people. so we can talk about the economic benefits of fracking, but if we're making people sick and we're giving people cancer, if we're giving people asthma, if we're contributing to preterm birth and so forth, then are we not creating medical costs in addition? >> what response have you had from state officials? because you

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. >> -- to the affluent suburbs of chamburg, illinois -- >> let's go. >> -- the underground sex trade is booming in the midwest. >> gang members are no longer selling sex any longer. they're selling children. >> all the young girls were branded. >> they are literally slaves. >> you know what's going to happen then, right? >> but what are the real human costs for the women that service this billion-dollar industry? >> you won't have to worry about this [ bleep ] no [ bleep ] more. period. >> it has a psychological effect, a mental effect, and the girls are being hardened by it more and more. >> [ bleep ]. >> police, come on out. >> tonight msnbc travels with the cooke county human trafficking task force. >> how much dope do you do a day? >> quite a bit. >> and meet the women and girls who pay the harsh price for what some call a victimless crime. >>> on a warm chicago afternoon the streets are crowded with tourists, browsing the merchandise along the magnificent mile. but just a few blocks away this motel plays host to a different kind of commodity. sex for sale. >> what do you want? >

nbc's john yang with us from peoria, illinois. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the wait has begun tonight. the wait for the illinois river to start dropping from record levels, the highest in 70 years. this wall of 30,000 sandbags kept the water from encroaching any farther on downtown including the corporate headquarters of caterpillar just up the block here. roads have become rivers, levees overtopped, houses swamped and farmland is under water. now the illinois river here flows very slowly. so it's going to take some time for all this floodwater to clear out of here. one place it will go once it clears is the mississippi river where the illinois river joins north of st. louis. that's going to add to the flooding concerns along that waterway. brian? >> very tough time in peoria and elsewhere. john yang reporting for us tonight. john, thanks. >>> there is an awful story developing overseas tonight. a building collapse in bangladesh that killed at least 87 people, injured more than a thousand. the search for

companies are coming to illinois for its highly skilled workforce. cupcake fans are experiencing a sugar crash. the dessert is losing luster after years of popularity. case in point: crumbs bake shop. the cupcake chain, which trades on the nyse, is now warning of slower sales. its stock fell 34% last friday. no word yet on what dessert will next capture the attention of america's sweet tooth. still to come, it's a movies and money thursday. find out if tom cruise still has what it takes to come in number one at the box office this weekend. but first, networks and cable channels beware: big changes are coming from small upstarts. that's next with bill moller. you hear that? there's a shake- up going on in the television industry. a brash little upstart called aereo has the networks & cable operators running scared right now. brian tallerico is the tv critic for hollywoodchicago.com. why is this david causing so much angst and chaos among all the goliaths? - the goliath's already being attacked by other davids in the form of hulu and netflix, and now t

a state department diplomat from illinois is among those killed. the health secretary carried two weeks ago during a visit to kabul serving as a personal guide. >> i remember her vivacious, smart, capable. chosen often byam ambassador being the lead person because of her capacity. >> secretary keri delivering the sad news to the young women's family. >> he personally informed us of ann's death through the suicide attack and the con stloirp in. >> in the home town american flags pay tribute. >> no man is an island. she was important to everybody who lives here and she will be missed to lose somebody. touches everybody. >> the attack killed three u.s. service members a civilian who worked for the department and an afghan doctor giving help to those at a nearby school. the state department work was always a great adventure. >> the key thing is she was doing what she loved and doing something which really made a difference and a really positive difference. >> the time now 47 after the hour. still ahead why those energy drinks you might use to stay awak

but then when president obama got elected to the united states senate from illinois, he and i became friends and i'm probably proudly closest now to president obama. >> for any senate to work with the president, what are the rules of the road that any chief executive needs to know when they come to this town? >> mutual respect, respecting the congress, respecting that these 535 were each individually elected by thousands of people in their districts or in their states. and that means something. an election means something. and so that mute twal respect that members of congress were elected by the people. and even though you're president and you were elected by the all the people there has to be that mutual respect, a mutual understanding that in order to really get the people's business accomplished, we have to talk to one another and work with one another and compromise with one another. and i think that's really happening since president obama was re-elected. >> you decided in 2008 to retire from the house. why? >> well, for my first 12 years i was the majority party, and it's a lo

the illinois river crested at a new level. record 29.3 feet. floodwaters pouring into businesses in peoria. as abc's wendy gillette reports, the flood threat covers a wide area. [ sirens blaring ] >> reporter: sandbags to the rescue in fargo, north dakota. and the tiny community of dutchtown, missouri, population 94. all to save homes and businesses from ravaging floodwaters. flowing across parts of the midwest. you couldn't ask for a more appropriate name than grand rapids, michigan, these past few days. >> never seen anything like this before in my life. and just was intrigued at how high the water was. and just how bad everything got flooded. >> reporter: a familiar refrain across the region. >> we lived here 50 years. we come downtown to walk a lot -- at least a couple times every week. and never have seen anything like this. >> reporter: the flooding is the worst in recorded history in some areas. >> came in like a water fall. >> reporter: that was before more rain came pouring down tuesday in desplains, illinois. >> we were bailing it and

always in small towns. >> in the state of illinois. >> in the state of illinois, yes. and some towns they lived in twice. so they moved 11 times, but the number of towns was not quite that great. but then when he took them to hollywood, jack reagan lived kind of a better life there and enjoyed those years, did die. but in the meanwhile, he'd gotten to know people like pat o'brien in the movies, and that was exciting. so ronald reagan gave him a happy time as well as his mother. >> dorothy bush and her father. >> yes, what a dynasty they're building. dorothy bush was the daughter of a wealthy st. louis mercantile family. she had a golden life. no rain fell on dorothy bush. a wonderful parents, wonderful husband, wonderful children. but she could have sat back and just been a debutante or a bridge prayer. not at all. she was a competitive sports woman, a real athlete. she played tennis with such vengeance. she was the national girls junior champion and was serious about it. she was competitive. if it was tittley winks, swimming. they tell a story within the family that a

>> illinois is facing them now. so in illinois you have the state funds which are 39% funded, even assuming that every dollar that goes into the funds is going to earn 7 3/4. so that's really a very, very stark contrast. if you look in europe, where they do these funds, they're measuring them at much more conservative rates. and they're 95% funded. this is a really serious situation. and within illinois you have the city of chicago which has been undercontributing to pensions and underfunding the pensions. basically chicago and illinois have been sort of writing their own rules about pension funding in order not to have to run balanced budgets, in order to spend money now that they don't really have. >> i'm afraid we have to leave there it. >> they're not going to be able to do that much long. >> thank you very much. i'm sorry to interrupt you. we have a time pinch here. we'll have you back again with us soon. thank you very much. >>> thousands of visa applications for skilled foreign workers expected to be snapped

over $2 billion in illinois. upwards around $2 billion in the northeast quarter to fix up amtrak to fix up the tracks. we've made the investments. there are companies in america from overseas looking at making investments in california, in illinois, along the northeast corridor. the people are so far ahead of the politicians on this and the president has a vision for passenger rail in america which is what the american people want. they want to get out of their cars. they want good transportation. they want alternatives and passenger rail is certainly a part of that. and in california, they will have a train in 10 years that connects san francisco all the way to san diego north, south, 200 miles an hour all new infrastructure. >> let me ask you about the cost. and the politics in all of this. as you know, the looming issue in this country now and in the next decade is a growing debt and deficit, $16.5 trillion. why is it so hard for democrats and republicans to sit down and forge a compromise? >> well, i think be

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right now, actually, the with us now, dan, you're from illinois and you're a critic of illinois's government. illinois is almost insolvent, if i could put it like that. i would imagine that the people in illinois want this internet sales tax because they are so, so desperate for money. am i right? >> well, you know, i've dealt with the illinois state treasure and one of the few republicans in this state and yes, i'm critical of the way that things are going forward here, but you know, to answer your question, because they're desperate for the money, i don't think that that's the reason. i think there are a number of people that support this because it really is a sense of fairness for our bricks and mortar stores that are there established in our community, that are paying property taxes and paying the sales tax, so i think what's really looking at this is more of a fairness approach as opposed to looking at it for revenue. but it's going to make more internet sellers, tax collectors for the entire country. that's a huge bureaucratic burden to place on internet sellers, isn't it? >> well, i

my district in illinois, the 10th district of illinois is home to many people who have family in israel who travel to israel, our connection to israel is not strictly political. it is personal. and the relationship we have and will continue to have is a special bond that i'm pleased and honored to be able to represent, with you being a member of the mideast north african committee, being a lifelong advocate for israel, it is a great honor for me to stand here and celebrate the 5th anniversary of israel, i'm honored to be going to israel again in two weeks with members of the chicago community and we'll be looking, we'll be going throughout the country and have a chance to visit iron dome and other places where israel is at the frontlines of a bat that will is ours together. i'm proud and honored to represent yale here in the house of -- the house of representatives, knowing that the bond, the connection, between israel and the united states is found secure. thank you very much. ms. frankel: tonight we've had a very good, i think, discussion here because in israel, as we speak, israelis

. >> called the illinois street bridge. it's a port project. >> port project, okay. >> it's actually for freight rail as well as vehicle. >> okay, freight rail. okay. and here, these are cranes for unloading containers from vessels. and, you know, we don't see many vessels there unloading. >> not container vessels. >> and the short reason that we don't see container vessels is? >> oakland has the gig. >> why doesn't san francisco do container? and here is what i think and you can tell me if i'm right or wrong. most containers are double stacked on railway cars and we have a tunnel that limits the height of trains coming into san francisco and therefore they cannot double stack the containers, and therefore it's not profitable or reasonable to ship containers in and out of san francisco. is that -- >> actually -- i mean, that's partly true, but the bigger issue is geography. and san francisco being at the end of the peninsula, if you go -- if you're a container ship, you can go to oakland and get it on a rail that immediatel

did people move from illinois and indiana? from indiana and illinois? what happens? so with that we take a questionnaire to. additional fonts. we have had great presentations from our congress type people. yes. >> cpi was the big issue. the chairman. how you support the idea. >> a very good question. cpi is the idea have two changes. one is, it reduces the benefits that people would have when they retire. social security. reduce the benefits so that they would not grow as rapidly because they are indexed to inflation using an inflation rate, cost-of-living rate that is lower. it reduces spending. about $100 billion over a decade. the other half of it, which is why you get different people objecting to changed cpi for different reasons, the other part of change cpi is it brings back what we thought we had gotten rid of under reagan which was jimmy carter's record. back in the 70's when the government inflated the currency and everybody was getting higher wages because you were getting paid more dollars that were worth less. you're not getting any better off, but you'r

the bad: an illinois school bus driver caught on camera speeding through flooded streets. the driver has been suspended. >> the ugly, a driver gets loose at a circus and hides out in the bathroom. imagine the surpris

there's illinois again. crests will occur early on tuesday in portions of the illinois river. mississippi river could be the third worst tlood on record for some locations. and here's more rain. it's cold to boot. minneapolis, 34 degrees right now. chicago as well. here's some snow coming. we're not done with snow yet. we're seeing half an inch of snow in minneapolis and we're going to watch rain come into this area that does not need it again as we head towards tuesday. >> she said snow several times. that's unacceptable. thank you so much. back here to the investigation of what went on in the boston marathon bombings. tamerlan tsarnaev, the subpoesp who was killed. now questions about whether the fbi missed the marks of an alleged killer. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs, cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years, and we're creating tax free zones for business startups. the new new york is working creati

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. >> we have breaking news to bring you, these are live pictures from illinois in northern illinois where a school bus has overturned. if the cameraman will show us the school bus, you can see the scattered belongings are all over the ground there and people who are injured are taken away on the stretcher and the school bus is on its side. there are injuries but we don't have information on whether it is adults or children. that looks to be an adult on the stretcher. a school bus has overturned in illinois this morning. >> that is north of chicago between chicago and the wisconsin border. >> right new we will let you know what is happening weather-wise. there is a ballgame if town. >> we had shower activity orallier error -- shower activity earlier and 880 had wet weather. the you can see the clouds are lifting and our roof camera providing the cloudy spot but upper 50's for san jose and oakland, and 55 in san francisco, and the bay bridge, so if you are not in the fog or the mist or drizzle you are noticing the mild temperatures and mid-50 in napa with a show earlier, so clouds and fog a

they want illinois' minimum wage raised from 8.25 and hour to 15-dollars. "i know overall, my co-workers bring in a thousand dollars an hour in sales and that should not just come to the company." "do you think someone who makes 8.25 an hour, should be expected to live on that? i suspect it's hard in chicago." "i think the minimum wage should be raised but it's going to take a lot of work. (if it was raised, would you as a consumer, be willing to pay more for goods and services? yes, because i think everyone should be able to live and be educated." the protesters crowded the sidewalk but allowed shoppers to filter through. then continued to a nearby mcdonald's. a corporate spokeswoman initially refused to answer questions and hung up on us but emailed this statement, in part saying: "employees are paid competitive wages and have access to a range of benefits to meet their individual needs." but competitive to what--other minimum wage jobs? the economic policy institute, a nonpartisan think-tank found since 1968, the minimum wage seen here on the bottom...ha

this is the illinois river. it goes right through the heart of peoria, illinois. this building, the historic river station trying to keep dry. they're pumping out rooms in there. you can see people here are doing everything they can to try to prepare for another two feet or so of water. here in downtown peoria along the waterfront, they have erected this sort of handmade levy. sand bags over walls. they predict the water is going to get to just about here. if their predictions are right, they're hoping most of the businesses here are going to be okay. if their predictions are off, if any more rain comes or is higher than they predict, it will be trouble for the businesses. we were up in neighboring peoria heights, illinois. several businesses under water there. with 2 more feet to go in that part of illinois, there's going to be a lot more homes lost. they hope to keep the damage, you know, to a minimum with all of the preparations they have gone through here. >> of those homes that have been hit by high water, have there been emergency situations? any rescues? >>

and flood waters are now receding in parts of illinois, but what a mess it's been there. entire subdivisions with still under water. des plaines river, when it runs over, it is a mess. many people were trapped in their homes and had to be rescued friday. some residents say they have never seen anything like it. let's check in with meteorologist alex and ra steele. >> good morning to you guys. what we're going to see is a cresting and cascading of the crests of the water. we saw crests through illinois and indiana and we're going to watch those crests go from north to south as the water runs downstream. anywhere in green we're seeing flooding right now or it is imminent. so we are expecting that. unfortunately we have more rain and even snow on the way. minneapolis could pick up half an inch of snow today. and as we move this radar forward, unfortunately more rain coming for tuesday. so here's tonight. watch the snow from billings down through the central rockies. and then as we head toward monday, there's snow, denver, colorado, another two to four inches of snow coming y

illinois, you would have to play by illinois law, illinois rules. you would have to pay your property tax, collect the sales tax. it's accepted. you want to do business in our state, any other state, those are the rules. we think the same thing should apply when it comes to internet sales. if a montana internet retailer in a state with no sales tax, montana with no sales tax, wants to sell in illinois, we are saying they need to collect money from the illinois purchaser, not the montana purchaser. from the illinois purchaser for the sales tax and remit it back to the state of illinois. if they don't want to do that, if they don't want to sell in illinois or any state with a sales tax, that's their right. but if they do, for the privilege of selling in our ate, w areayin sthey will pay this sales tax. t, iould like to ask consent to enter into the record a column from last week, april 21 from the "wall street journal" entitled the internet sales tax rush. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i would like to have that entered. there a

schneider of illinois. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 164, the gentleman from illinois mr. schneider, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. schneider: thank you, madam chairman. every tai, u.s. websites, databases are threatened by foreign gupes trying to hack into our networks and wreak havoc. daily we read about banks and other companies with sensitive information at risk. billions of collars a year in stolen intellectual property and the ability to shut down our power system. this gives the private sector the necessary tools to protect itself and its customers against these cyberattacks. currently the cyber-- the intelligence community has the ability to detect cyberthreats but federal law prohibits the sharing of this information with the very companies whose firewalls are under attack. by sharing this information, private companies can actually prevent these attacks. the amendment i am offering makes a small clarifying change to the underlying bill, simply allowing independent contractors to be eligi

parts of western illinois seeing water slowly recede after the illinois river had crested nearly 30 feet this week. a number which is random and means absolutely nothing. anyway it snapped a seven year record. flood warnings are still in effect across the mississippi valley. while the rain has drenched some farms in places like iowa, things are much drier west of the mississippi. several states in the corn belt there are facing severe drought conditions. our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is working the extreme weather center. rick? >> kind of the haves and have notes as far as that prescription goes across the midwest and the plains. the mississippi river watershed is the largest one we have in the country. eastern side of this where we are seeing flooding. green areas the illinois river and wabash eventually in towards the illinois and parts of the mississippi river begins rivered illinois and wabash, that's where we saw some of the record breaking flooding. as it goes downstream the river will be able to absorb it and we won't be seeing record breaking flooding like we saw two yea

illinois is hardly the only state helping vets not just fill but also create jobs. in fact, it's part of a trend. "nationally, there's a trend to help vets create their own business." and though sequestration has cut a number of contracts, veteran-owned businesses are in a special category: set-asides - work set-aside for veteran owned businesses specifically. "it would squeeze them if there weren't a lot of 'set-asides,' but there are more opportunities than there are vet-owned companies. so it's good for them, more than anyone else working with the government, right now. " there's one more reason for programs helping vets start their own businesses: vets hire other vets, which helps cut unemployment. "not only does it create business for the state, but it redues unemployment." this is not to say veterans have escaped sequestration cuts - far from it. the labor department's vets job-training program is affecting tens of thousands of veterans alone. and there have been more cuts to federal housing programs to help homeless veterans and tuition assistance programs. s

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one out of 20 people in illinois fill out that line. here we have some 95% of the taxpayers in my state that put zero. you just know that it's more than 5% of the people living in illinois that are purchasing over the internet. so this tax is not paid. so what our bill says is this: we don't create any federal tax -- none at all. we don't create any new state or local tax. none at all. what we do say that states can give the software to these internet retailers to collect the tax when you make the purchase. i recently bought a book on amazon.com. i put in my address, zip code and they calculated instantly how much i owed in sales tax in that purchase. i paid it. the money was remitted to the online department of revenue. they are doing that even though there is no legal obligation for them to do. more companies, land's end, i called them to inquire about my purchases. they said we collect sales tax. more companies do it but this would make it uniform. we wrote this law understanding there are some small internet retailers that sell perh

in illinois alone, 44 counties have been declared disaster areas. at least three deaths are blamed on the floods. >>> in north dakota police escorted trucks hauling thousands of sand bags into flood-prone neighborhoods. there's a flood warning in fargo as melting snow pushes the red river higher. it's expected to begin spilling over its banks thursday morning and continue rising through next week. meteorologist craig setzer from our miami station wfor has the latest on the weather. >>> more rain has fallen through much of the area on tuesday. heavy rain falling on parts of illinois, missouri, indiana, as well as iowa into michigan. all of this activity is going to be slowly to the east. that's the only upside to this, that it's not going to last a whole lot longer. that rain moving out as we go through wednesday. heavy rain, though, possible, even snow in parts of northern michigan. heavy rain down that frontal system that works its way toward the east coast, but through the day today on the east coast, temperatures will be warm, mainly 70s. a break

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the flooding started last week along the mississippi, illinois, and red rivers. as terrell brown reports, it may not be as bad as first feared but no one is breathing easy yet, either. >> reporter: a levee breach in lincoln county, missouri, turn's bob's creek into a raging river. the flooforts have taken aim at the town's 30 homes. >> you don't really know, but you have to be prepared. >> reporter: flooding has hit parts of nine midwest states. the illinois river in mason county reached through front doors and windows. >> you think you're okay because they've told you it's crested and everything and right away, within eight hours, overnight, here it was in my house up a foot deep in the basement. >> reporter: elsewhere, illinois' wabash river is at its highest level since 1943. residents in two communities have been told to get out of its way. >> we are dealing with a lot of rain and these storm systems are tracking over the same areas producing widespread flooding over the midwest. >> reporter: in north dakota, it's not rain but melting snow that's threatening

we are seeing river flooding very widespread in states like indiana and illinois. that's why we have flood warnings. unfortunately today not helping the situation is a brand new storm system rolling through the area producing 1-2 inches of rainfall. that in itself wouldn't cause flooding but because we have a ground saturated we would see more issues. as the water continues to flow downstream we could be seeing issues aphoss states lie re arkansas and even mississippi. temperatures today patti ann and heatherughtery chilly in minneapolis in the 40s. in new york city much warmer today 67 degrees. >> nice. i like that. >> it is time totrentertain thi. beyonce releasing brand new video from her recently lucinchd world tour. >> extravagant costumes and back scenes for her fans. >> a health scare meanwhile for duane the rock johnson. he is recovering from hernia surgery. he tweeted this. called surgery a success. also super man is on the mend along with that picture of him in a super man shirt and a surgery cap. >> he had a movie that just opened up. i dondor know abod.

in illinois, evacuations are under way and water is already 3 feet deep in some areas, ooding isd for three deaths, and more rain is expected >>> in missouri, 11 barges sank in the mississippi river after 114 of them broke free of their moorings saturday night near st. louis. the coast guard closed part of the river while the free-floating barges were recovered. the jefferson barracks bridge was shut down for about six hours after four of the barges hit the bridge. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" budget cuts may mean delays at the airport and gas prices dip. erica ferrari is here with more. good morning, erica. >> good morning, anne-marie. expect delays at the airports now that the budget cuts are air traffic controllers at home. the biggest delays are predicted at l.a.x., o'hare, and laguardia. the faa slashed the budget by more than $600 million. mark rosenker, a former ntsb nannal list and cbs responsibility says the delays could hit for hours. >>> we're going to see delays for the carriers, the passengers, and frankly i believe for the economy. >>> the country's largest pilots union a