Flooded Mississippi takes aim at delta

Thursday, May 12, 2011

RENA LARA, Miss. -- Crews worked to shore up levees along the swelling Mississippi River on Wednesday as floodwaters threatened to swamp even more of the fertile Mississippi Delta.

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