WYATT — A few momentary blasts, flashes of orange light, and the Mississippi River began pouring through a wide hole in a Missouri levee, intentionally blown open by the Army Corps of Engineers in the hope of saving a small Illinois town.
Corps breaks Missouri levee as water rising elsewhere
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | 8:18 a.m. CDT;
updated 5:50 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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