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Flooding Spreads Along the Mississippi River

HeadlineJun 20, 2008

The extreme weather report was released while the Midwest continues to face widespread flooding. Officials say eighteen more levees on the Mississippi River are at high risk of being overwhelmed this weekend. Thirty-one levees have already been breached or topped. USA Today reports many of these levees were not built to handle a flood of such historic proportions.

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