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Summary The Mississippi River threatens to unleash near record flooding all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
The swollen Mississippi River lapped onto city streets and threatened river towns as record amounts of water tested a network of levees and reservoirs built since deadly floods in the last century.Police in Memphis, a city in the US state of Tennessee, distributed evacuation warnings to nearly 3,000 homes, apartment complexes and businesses that could be in the path of the flood waters.Large amounts of rain and melt from the winter snow has caused a chain reaction of flooding from Canada and the Dakotas through Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee.The wall of water advanced into Tunica, Mississippi, where at least a dozen casinos lining the riverbank were flooded and forced to close.US President Barack Obama declared parts of Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee as disaster areas due to flooding.
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