"Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area."

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Source : "Flood Conditions To Worsen In Missouri". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

Jay Nixon

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