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Misery in the Midwest; R. Kelly Found Not Guilty
Aired June 13, 2008 - 15:00 ET
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I couldn't believe the water came up this far. I have never seen it or heard from my relatives of it coming up this far in their lifetime.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Rising floods, thousands of people evacuated.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My husband's feet hit the floor. And he said, what happened? He goes, there's -- there's water.
LEMON: A race against the river.
ROCHELLE CHARNOWSKI, RESIDENT OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA: I got off of work at about 12:00, and this has come up probably four feet in the last, what, hour-and-a-half.
LEMON: Cities covered in water. And it's not over yet.
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LEMON: We are following misery in the Midwest today.
Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.
LEMON: Right off the top, we will standard with Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
You want to see downtown today? Well, you better get a boat. It is knee deep. It is neck deep. And the last time it was this deep? well, never. That's the answer to that. People who lived through the great flood of 1993, if you're watching us from the Midwest, you remember.
And many are saying there is no comparison. This water will recede and summer in Cedar Rapids will be long and it will be dirty.
Parts of Kansas are flooded, too, but look at these aerial shots of Chapman, Kansas, what's left of it, if you want to look at it, a line of tornadoes that slashed right through the state, killed at least two people and tore up this small town, destroying or damage nearly every single structure there. People who live there, well, they're still trying to salvage what they can from their homes.
And I want you to take a look at this. Take a look at what they're still dealing with in Indiana. This is not supposed to -- this water is not supposed to be here. It's high water. It's busted levees along the White River.
Now, lot of roads are closed. A weakened dam prompted some home evacuations there today. And the last thing they need there, the R- word is in the forecast for the weekend. Of course, we know that R- word, the dreaded rain.
It's the flood of the century. It's even the flood of the last century, nothing but water in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, today. And nearly the entire state, all of it, as the governor calls it, is declared a disaster zone today.
Right in the middle of it all, live in Cedar Rapids today, is CNN's Brianna Keilar.
She joins us now with the latest.
And you're hip deep now in water, Brianna. Take it away.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: I am, Don.
And I actually -- it's kind of strange that these guys just came along here, because I prepared this segment to talk to you about the safety of the water, how it's very dirty, how it's not very safe. And I ran into an Army Reservist who would say, what are you guys doing? Are these snow shovels?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. They're snow shovels, and we're using them as paddles.
KEILAR: And how far away is the house?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, just right over there on K.
KEILAR: Yes. Why did you guys to back?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To get stuff. Grab the pets and clothes and stuff out of there real quick to get everything.
KEILAR: Any near misses here? It seems like not the most stable craft.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a little swift down there, had to do some fast paddling. But it's OK up here.
KEILAR: Yes? You guys feel safe?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
KEILAR: Are you going to get out of the water real quick? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, here in a little bit.
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KEILAR: All right. Good luck with that.
But this water, Don, it is swift. I will tell you that, but it's also kind of taken on today, I noticed a few hours into the morning, kind of a sheen, some gasoline on it, it appears. We understand that here just a few blocks down, there is a gas station.
We ran into an Army Reserve unit from Davenport, Iowa, who they're trying to tell people that this is off limits. Let's listen.
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KEILAR: Tell me what is in the water that's so dangerous.
SGT. BRANDON ADAMS, U.S. ARMY RESERVES: We have got fuel.
KEILAR: From gas stations?
ADAMS: Gas stations, (INAUDIBLE), stuff like that, milk houses, that are blowing up, tanks floating in the water, fuel leaking out of that. We have got biochemical stuff that is going in, bacteria and different types of stuff.
And let's say somebody had infections or something like that go in the water. They come back out. You never know what could happen to them next after that.
KEILAR: So, stay out of the water.
ADAMS: Stay out of the water.
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KEILAR: Yes, stay out of the water.
That Army Reserve unit from Davenport, Iowa, is very serious about that. And I can tell you, standing here, I'm just really having to make sure that I have a very good footing, because there's a pretty swift current in fact that I can feel.
And it's obviously not the most safe area, Don. But we have seen people ride their bikes through this when the water was this high. They have sort of walked through this in some of the lower water.
But I even saw a couple walk through this water in their street clothes, just as I am doing now, all the way down to the street to their house. People are desperate to get some of their belongings. Some of them want to get their medications.
But, again, the Army Reservists, as well as some of the other units that are in here, are telling people, hey, think twice. Talk to us before you do anything like this -- Don. LEMON: Yes. Brianna, I'm glad you said you had a very good footing, because the average person, you're out there working, and you know sort of what to do, should not be in this water, and you never know what's under that water, toxins or what have you.
But you don't know what's there. It could be landscaping or what have you that you could fall over.
Our Brianna Keilar joining us now from Iowa, we appreciate your reporting, Brianna. Thank you very much for that.
As Dave Hennen and the rest of the CNN weather team, our Chad Myers as well, check on the situation that is happening all across the Midwest, we want to get you now to some breaking news coming out of Washington.
We're hearing that the National Guard is headed to Iowa.
Barbara Starr breaking this story for us -- Barbara.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, let me bring everybody up to date.
As my colleague Brianna Keilar just showed us on our air, we are seeing a number of National Guard and Reserve troops already on the scene. But CNN has learned now that a military warning order has been issued in fact to the active duty force, and we could start seeing some active duty military involvement in this situation as soon as this weekend.
A spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, which actually, to explain to everyone, is the part of the military that handles disaster relief, has issued a warning order telling two key components to get ready.
A command post that is currently down in Texas may start moving in over the weekend, and also, essentially, an air component down at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. What will they bring to the scene if ordered in? There will be about a dozen active duty helicopters, communications, command and control. It may well be what we have seen so many times in disaster relief situations.
Once it begins to cross state lines, the states are quite able with their National Guard and Reserve forces to work their local situations. But this is now spreading across several states, and there is a growing feeling that it is going to take some broader military involvement, command and control, some helicopters to do search-and-rescue over a much wider area.
What a U.S. military spokesman at Northern Command told us just a little while ago, they are keeping their eye on a couple of critical factors over the weekend, obviously, the weather, also the ability of the state National Guard to really continue to muster the forces to deal with this.
But there is one thing they are watching very carefully, and it's the pictures that you're seeing on the air. It is the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They tell us all the projections, as we have been saying, are that the river is going to continue to rise above this massive flood stage, that it's already at over the weekend.
So, wrapping that all up, active duty military now getting ready to go in, lend a hand. The warning order has been issued. They will work this through the weekend, we're told, take a reading of it all weekend long. But the expectation at this point, unless things remarkably get better, which is not expected, is that there will be active duty military involvement possibly as soon as Sunday or early next week, unless things get substantially better -- Don.
LEMON: All right, CNN's Barbara Starr breaking that news.
And, Barbara, we know when the military starts to go in, it's getting very serious. We know it's serious there. But when the military starts to go in, we know that it's possibly going to get worse.
Our Dave Hennen is working on it.
Dave, what are you working on for Chad over here as I walk over to talk to him?
DAVE HENNEN, CNN METEOROLOGIST: We're checking out Des Moines, and the fact that the levees this evening will be pretty close to at the top of the levees later on this evening.
LEMON: All right, Chad.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, and that's the issue.
You go on to www.crh.noaa.gov, Don.
LEMON: OK.
MYERS: And you can click on rivers and lakes. And then you can get the levels of the river and the levels of the lakes all across the country.
LEMON: OK.
MYERS: And you will see which ones are out of their banks, because they will be in purple.
LEMON: All right.
MYERS: And if they're in record flood stage, they will be purple as well.
This is downtown Des Moines.
LEMON: I'm going to step out of the way and let you do your thing. Go ahead.
MYERS: And the rivers, all of these bridges across Des Moines now are closed.
Also, down a little bit farther to the south, where the Iowa Cubs play, this here, this is completely surrounded with water now. And the game for tonight with the Nashville Sound has actually been canceled. Obviously, you can't even get to that. That's the least of people's thoughts right now is going to a baseball game when you have water now very close to the levee top.
And what happens with a levee top, when a levee top breaks, you're going to -- water is going to go over the top of the levee. And at some point in time, there's going to be a weak spot in that top.
And as it goes over the top, if it does, you're going to start to wash away a valley, a lot like what we had where Lake Delton went away because a little trickle of water started eroding, eroding, eroding, eroding.
And then, if you get enough erosion out of those levees -- and all a levee is, it's a canal basically that the river is supposed to go in. And it's higher than where the river really would be. And if it goes over the top and back down the other side, then you wash some of that dirt away.
Look at this -- 35 feet, that is over record flood stage, over the record. Again, you know, water levels, we have never seen before, and we have no idea what's going to happen, because we have never seen them before.
LEMON: Really amazing stuff. And you heard from Barbara Starr. When you see the National Guard going in, you can't say that, you know what, the situation is dire.
It's overwhelming. There are so many places, right, not just one.
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LEMON: All right.
Chad Myers, thank you very much.
MYERS: OK.
LEMON: Dave Hennen, as well, thank you very much.
We're working it from the Severe Weather Center today. CNN is your weather headquarters. We're on top of it.
We have had some breaking news when it comes to that. We told you the National Guard is coming in, and there is plenty yet to show you from the flooded Midwest, plenty of people to talk to, plenty more CNN coverage of this historic disaster, and just what is going on in that part of the country.
This wicked weather pattern has a name and we will explain it from CNN's Severe Weather Center. That's all this afternoon right here in the CNN NEWSROOM.
WHITFIELD: This just in now.
We understand from the Associated Press the legal case involving Grammy-award-winning singer and performer R. Kelly with the child pornography case in Chicago, well, we understand now, according to the "A.P.," that the jury has acquitted the R&B singer R. Kelly on all 14 counts in this child pornography case, this coming six years after the allegations that he had sex with an underaged girl and that among the evidence was the videotaping of this sex act between R. Kelly and this young person.
These allegations became a legal case six years ago and finally went to trial just a couple of weeks ago. So, now the jury has spoken, the jury deciding that he should be acquitted of all 14 counts of child pornography. Of course, when we get any more information about this case involving Grammy Award-winning singer and performer, composer, all of that, R. Kelly, we will be able to bring that to you.
Meantime, keep your eye on the circle, that one right there. Inside it, you will see what astronauts believe is a piece of their shuttle floating away. What does it mean for tomorrow's scheduled landing?
LEMON: OK.
WHITFIELD: And hold the tomato. America's salmonella outbreak expands. We will have the latest facts and figures.
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WHITFIELD: So shuttle astronauts thought it was a piece of space junk, perhaps. Well, now they think it's a piece from their ship. Will it keep them from landing tomorrow, as scheduled?
Our space expert, Miles O'Brien, is in New York. And he's been talking with NASA. So what should we make of that piece?
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CHIEF TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT: It's not a UFO. We do know that.
WHITFIELD: OK.
O'BRIEN: It has been an identified. An unidentified fastener object is what it turned out to be.
Let me give you the backstory. First of all, I want everybody to know that the orbiter is fine and cleared to come back home and the astronauts are fine. Let me tell just you how this turned into a little bit of concern this morning and how this all transpired.
It happened early this morning about 7:30 Eastern time. Commander Mark Kelly got into the controls there and started moving thins around, just testing the aero surfaces, the elevons, the rudders, just to make sure they all are going to work fine because they're due for landing. First opportunity for landing is 11:15 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow at the Kennedy Space Center, all routine. In the midst of that routine, here's what they saw, this piece of something. What was it? Well, at first, they said maybe a piece of ice.
But it really doesn't look like a piece of ice. It's too perfectly rectangular. And look at the way it glints. It's clearly metallic in some way, shape or form. And they took not only these video pictures, but some still images with telephoto lenses and so forth, higher-resolution stuff.
The imagery -- that crackerjack imagery team in Houston and in Florida figured it out. Now, here's -- it's a fastener that is linked to this part of the shuttle. But you have no idea where that is. So, come back to me for a moment, if you would, Diedre (ph), and let me just show you what you're seeing.
This -- we're looking at a closeup of this area here. And inside these rudders, which, you know -- you know what that does. It keeps the shuttle from going this way. It's called yaw in aviation. There's insulation inside.
The insulation is there, though, not for reentry. The heat of reentry is borne by the belly, where these black tiles are. Here's one of those black tiles. There are 20,000 of those black and white tiles.
In any case, reentry, this -- actually, this part of the shuttle doesn't get that hot. The insulation is there for the launch phase, when there's a lot of heat there because of the plume. The rockets are firing at that time. So, if you lose insulation there and the fastener which connects the insulation, it's not considered a big deal for landing.
So, let's go back to that image now, so you understand where I was talking about. And, if you look, it looks as if there's some of that insulation protruding. Well, as it turns out, the imagery folks have looked at this stuff very carefully, and it's not actually insulation.
It's just kind of -- the sun was playing tricks on them. That's actually the way the shuttle should look, as it turns out. And it's not anything to worry about. Even if it was insulation, NASA tells us it wouldn't be a problem, because you don't need the insulation for reentry. And there you have it in the nutshell a really much ado about nothing, Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: Really?
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WHITFIELD: I'm not an astronaut, but, hey, I'm not very comforted by seeing a piece flying around that is large enough to be metallic.
(CROSSTALK) O'BRIEN: Yes, you would. You would.
WHITFIELD: Yes?
O'BRIEN: But there are pieces and then there are pieces. And this was one that in fact over the course of the shuttle program, many times they have landed and these pieces have been missing.
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WHITFIELD: Yes. OK. But bottom line, scheduled landing will happen tomorrow as scheduled.
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O'BRIEN: Yes, as scheduled. You know how the weather can be.
WHITFIELD: Right.
O'BRIEN: The weather looks pretty good.
And assuming all goes well and the weather looks good in Florida, we will bring it to you live tomorrow, 11:15 a.m.
WHITFIELD: Yes. OK. We're going to be watching. I will be here.
O'BRIEN: We're going to bring down the shuttle for you.
WHITFIELD: All right, thanks so much, Miles. Appreciate it.
O'BRIEN: You're welcome.
WHITFIELD: Don.
LEMON: Miles and Fred, do you think they're paying for like sodas and stuff on the space shuttle?
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WHITFIELD: No. That would be no. Lucky ducks, because the rest of us will be.
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LEMON: Absolutely. That's the next story. Thanks, Miles and Fred.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: Man, let's take you to all these flooding pictures.
You can practically shoot the rapids in Cedar Rapids. There is no line today between the normally sleepy Cedar River and the city. They are one today. The water has already made history, reaching up to 31 feet.
And except for rescuers and emergency crews, zero people are in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, today. The only thing those who live there and work there can do, well, all they can do is wait, and wait, and wait, until the waters recede.
And across the state of Iowa today, nine rivers are at or over historic flood levels.
We're monitoring all of our affiliates, and we will bring you the very latest, just as soon as we have it for you right here in the CNN NEWSROOM -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: All right.
And, Don, we're getting more information now on the child pornography case involving Grammy Award-winning singer R. Kelly. We are able to confirm now that the nine men and three women on that jury panel have acquitted him of all 14 counts of child pornography -- now, this coming six years after this became a legal case.
The allegations at the time had been that R. Kelly had sex and it was videotaped, sex with a young lady as young as age 13. He was facing up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. But, apparently, the jurors were not convinced by the evidence that was presented by the prosecutors. So, R. Kelly will soon be walking out of jail there a free man, those 14 counts of child pornography being dismissed. More information as we get it.
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WHITFIELD: Well, Dr. Calvin Chinieri (ph) was several years into his medical residency when he had an epiphany: lose weight or end up dying like many of his patients who suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure and strokes.
Well, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his story in today's "Fit Nation."
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Since he was 5 years old, Calvin Chinieri (ph) wanted to be a doctor. But as he worked his way through school, his nutrition took a backseat.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My mom would say I was chubby or husky. She would always say husky.
GUPTA: He tried everything to lose weight, fad diets, medications, group exercise. But a two-month rotation in the stroke care unit changed everything.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were a lot of patients with obesity- related diseases. And they were dying from heart attack, strokes, high blood pressure. And I was like, that's not going to happen to me, you know?
GUPTA: So, he did the thing he does best, study, learning all about the process of losing weight. He switched from fried food to baked food, exercised every day, reduced his stress level, and got as much sleep as possible for a medical resident.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This fundamental lifestyle change helped Cal lose weight and ultimately led to a major career change.
I left residency, decided, OK, this is not for me. I went to business school at Emory, so I could learn how to create a business to help people like myself lose weight.
GUPTA: Four years later, Calvin says he doesn't regret a minute of it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm healthier. I'm happier than ever. I'm with the woman of my dreams. I have created a business that I love, that I'm passionate about. I'm just happy. I think I had a hangnail last week, and that's the only bad thing that's happened to me in a while.
My name is Calvin Chinieri (ph), and I have lost 130 pounds.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
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WHITFIELD: It's almost like being a ventriloquist. You can hear Don Lemon, but you can see me.
Hello, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.
You are in THE NEWSROOM.
It is 30 minutes after the hour here at 3:00 Eastern time. Here are three of the stories we're working on in the CNN NEWSROOM.
Not guilty -- a Chicago jury has just cleared R. Kelly of child pornography charges. The verdict was read just a few minutes ago. The Grammy-winning singer was accused of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl. Again, the jury acquits him. Two people shot and killed near Charlotte, North Carolina during an apparent robbery at a soft drink bottling plant. Police are using helicopters and dogs to search for the killer.
And floods continue to plague Iowa. At least 438 blocks are under water in downtown Cedar Rapids and voluntary evacuations have started in downtown Des Moines. LEMON: Historic high waters -- that's interesting only to historians, at this point. For everyone else across most of Eastern Iowa, it is simply a disaster ruining homes, putting people out of work and one that will cost millions and millions of dollars.
We want to give you the numbers now. In Cedar Rapids, the river usually running through -- well, today runs over. More than 400 square blocks of the city, they are under water there. One hundred thirty miles away -- we're talking about in Des Moines -- a neighborhood of about 200 homes was ordered evacuated. Volunteers and National Guard troops are working nonstop to shore up river levees with sandbags today.
And the bill for all this coverage? When is it all over?
Well, when it's all over, I should say, there's going to be painful. Early estimates predict a half billion dollars will be needed to recover from this flood.
Meteorologist Chad Myers is keeping track of what's happening right now.
He joins us now right behind me in the CNN Severe Weather Center -- Chad, tell us what you have now.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And that estimate may not even be close.
LEMON: Oh, wow!
MYERS: Considering how much of Iowa is literally under water -- and not just Iowa -- Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana. The water is going to get into the Mississippi and flood all the way down through, possibly even as far south as New Orleans. We'll have to see how that bubble of water actually works.
But every purple square that you see here, that is a river out of its banks. The red square, a river out of its banks, but not up to record levels or major flood levels yet. But all of this water has to get into the big rivers and head downstream, whether it's the Ohio River or the Mississippi River or even the Missouri out of control in some places here.
Here's the Des Moines River at Des Moines. Here's the old record. This is the record level -- 34 feet. That water is now cresting, which means coming to the very top. There's no more water bubble upstream for you. It will start to come down, but it's a little too late for sure.
There is rain today across Indiana and Illinois. Still very swampy in here. A lot of rivers in Southern Illinois still out of their banks and then rivers all the way down through Kentucky and Tennessee going to see some significant rain.
Here's a zoom in. See those yellow boxes? Those are severe thunderstorm watches. It means there could be hail or wind today, probably not too many tornadoes. Yesterday, we had about 30. The day before we had over 50. Well, today, we're kind of losing the energy for this system. It's kind of running away from itself, cut certainly not ruining or losing the energy to make rainfall. Everywhere that you see yellow, that's two inches of rain or more. There are some red spots in there in Indianapolis and south of there. That's four inches of rain expected in the next two days. And in some spots, more than that -- Don.
LEMON: All right, thank you very much for that, Chad Myers.
We want to send it over now to Josh Levs. He's working on those I-Reports for us.
He joins us now at what we could call our I-Report/flooding desk, as well as tornadoes -- Josh, what do you have for us now?
JOSHUA LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we've got a lot of roles over here today.
Let me tell you a little bit about what's been going on at I- Report today. A very busy day because we're getting so many photos and videos from stricken areas. One thing that really struck me is a series of photos we got from Cedar Rapids taken by Dan Gottschalk, who I believe is joining us right now.
Dan, are you with us?
DAN GOTTSCHALK, I-REPORTER: Yes, I am.
LEVS: OK. Great.
Well, tell me a little bit about these photos. And we're going to take a look through these here as you do. You know, you have this one photo that really strikes me, that shows what I believe is supposed to be a theater, Paramount Theater.
What's happening there?
Where are you and what are we seeing in that picture?
GOTTSCHALK: I would be standing inside a skywalk on Second Street, looking toward -- it would be the south/southeast -- southwest, actually. Excuse me. And it's actually an old-time theater. It was built in 1928. It's on the Register of Historic Places.
LEVS: I mean I'm seeing the very top of it here. That's where you see the announcement. So basically you managed to be somewhere safe while this entire street has feet and feet of water, right?
GOTTSCHALK: That is correct.
LEVS: OK. Let me move through a little bit more, because here's another one over here that really strikes me. It looks like a castle. I guess it's some kind of government building. And that's a bridge along there. And you have tons and tons of water that just washed everything out.
What are we seeing here?
GOTTSCHALK: That's what the...
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GOTTSCHALK: ...the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, home of city hall, as well. And that bridge right there is the Second Avenue Bridge.
LEVS: OK. So that's the bridge right there. And now the water is all the way up to where the bridge usually is. So the bridge itself even is washed out.
GOTTSCHALK: Right.
LEVS: Now, you did not go to any danger in taking these pictures, right?
GOTTSCHALK: No, I did not.
LEVS: OK. And I want to use this moment to emphasize to our audience, we do want anyone going into any danger ever to take any pictures. We do vet these things and make sure that did not happen.
I'll flip through a few more of these before we go.
Listen, Dan, thank you very much for joining us.
OK, we're going to take a quick look here. Our control room has them, as well. These are more of Dan Gottschalk's pictures taken throughout Cedar Rapids today.
You can send us your pictures easily. Just go to CNN.com and click on I-Report. It tells you everything you need to do -- photos, videos, etc.
And, Don, throughout the day we're going to keep bring you some more of these amazing images from this stricken area.
LEMON: All right.
Josh Levs doing a great job over there at our I-Report Desk.
We appreciate it, Josh -- Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: Don, thanks so much.
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