Mississippi River is beginning to recede, slowly

Northeast Missouri is finally getting some relief as the floodwaters begin to back off. Dave Busee is the Chief of Engineering and Construction for the Army Corps of Engineers , St. Louis District, and says that many people concentrate on the danger when the river is...

Waiting game playing out in northeast Missouri

A tense waiting game is being played out in northeast Missouri. The Mississippi River, swollen from the heavy rains that saturated Iowa, laps up against temporary sandbag levees as residents desperately attempt to keep it from overflowing communities and farmland...

Northeast Missouri residents battle rising river levels

Northeast Missouri remains a battleground:  residents versus the river. Sandbagging continues all along the Mississippi River, swollen from nearly non-stop rain earlier in Iowa. Residents of Canton, La Grange and Clarksville are erecting temporary sandbag levees...

Clarksville battles to keep floodwaters at bay

Clarksville is battling for its life. The small community located on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Hannibal has built a nine foot tall sandbag wall, attempting to keep floodwaters from inundating the town. National Guardsmen and volunteers hope to add a...