Mississippi Mayor Urges Residents To ‘Get Out Now’ As State Braces For Flooding



Mississippi’s governor issued a state of emergency to residents as they brace for more flood waters. The Pearl River is expected to crest at 35 and a half feet overnight near downtown Jackson. The flooding is adding to the water still on the ground in Mississippi after days of excessive rainfall. This comes as 10 million Americans across the upper Midwest are at risk for severe weather, and the National Hurricane Center tracks four different storms developing in the Atlantic. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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33 comments

  1. My guess, news is going to over report whenever the Mississippi River floods (like it has for years), because they want to justify diverting water from the midwest to CA. Mark it.

  2. Sell everything and come to Botswana and be saved

  3. Robin Williams covered this with his beach house joke now its just sad when 1/3 of the country is struggling with water

  4. Can the nation not build a pipeline water infrastructure that can transport flood water to drought areas? Seems completely doable and strange this is a problem not yet solved in 2022. Also, create an alternative video ender to promote the network when more somber content is being shown. The chipper tone at the end of a flood video is off.

  5. When will people stop buying homes in flood zones.

  6. Did they show a dead man in the car??

  7. Well, as someone who used to live in Mississippi, a lot of the state is a giant floodplain.

  8. When buying homes asking about historic floods in the area, see how close to a body of water you are.

  9. A couple of bags of sand ain't gona do the trick. That water is coming!

  10. Question nowadays: What States are currently NOT FLOODED!??😳💧💧💧

  11. Lord have mercy! Jesus have mercy! Jesus! Jesus some people have no where to go? Jesus please! Have mercy!

  12. Mother Nature ravages revenge on ignorant Mississippians.

  13. People's been warned to get out but the ones that hangs around are the ones that wants to hang around so they can loot people s*** that did evacuate

  14. Do not leave your pets behind or abandon them.

  15. Perhaps pipes to move water away when flooding to areas where water is needed isn’t as much of a bad idea after all.

  16. At least the neighborhood is cleaner now!

  17. lololololololol all the red states are getting FLOODED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DoNt call Biden for help either, SOCIALISM . . . remember ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Call your governor

  18. Don’t pray God know what is going on!!! Just hope for the best but get ready for the worse because it’s definitely on the way I just still don’t get it why you people don’t understand that what is happening it’s in lifecycle of eternity and it’s not created by human and it’s not stoppable by human… don’t you get it…
    It’s time to use your creative mind that was given by Creator to figure it out how to survive reboot on earth… those religion man made and since all talk about one thing and no one is getting ready…
    Rebuild your house on send by the ocean it’s rebuilt home by river… it’s over the lifecycle it’s getting in direction that you all know but you chose not to get ready so you all pay the price for your choice on individual bases…
    I have warned you guys it’s not like you think it’s how supposed to be… pee against the wind it’s what you doing… sad but if you don’t want to take responsibility for your own life, do you think someone will, well that someone has responsibility for own life. It’s not magic. It’s reality of visible world in lifecycle…stop that stupid delusion if you want to have life… it’s not about death it’s about searching for the death and not be able to find it!!!
    It’s your choice!!!
    God created world and evil and good in that world for human realisation, no magic what side you take the one will take you… despite religious or any groups of man made to feed own ego

  19. Just move north. We have enough racist trash in the south

  20. Is that the mayor of Mississippi or Zimbabwe?

  21. Good coverage. Smart gov. The water from the storm north of them will drain south as always from lakes to rivers. Prayers for all lives, in safety.

  22. This could just be the beginning with those storms forming in the Atlantic.

  23. PRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  24. What storms?
    Only a few tropical waves

  25. How about moving out of Mississippi!!!!

  26. I just checked the NHC website and there are only 3 tropical storms, not four. And only 2 look like they will become hurricanes.

  27. Take your pets with you…poultry and livestock owners should open doors and gates and allow the animals to fend for themselves. Notify animal services if you leave animals behind…

  28. Science-denying American Republicans are so certain they're right and the science world is wrong that they're even fighting to deregulate everything to further accelerate our rate of burning fossil fuels and the pillaging of the planet for their own personal greed (fear).

    They're willing to bet the world and all of its inhabitants on their certainty (limitless greed). #FearAndGreedRule #EmpathyFreeGOP

    Every single American Republican policy puts fear and greed (fear) before people and planet. Fear (and the empathy and critical thought it kills) is what separates the right from the left. The fear at the root of ”Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein

    Liberals hate American Republicans because all of their policies put fear and greed (fear) before people and planet (including equality and empathy).

    American Republicans hate liberals for the exact same reasons, because they’re afraid we’ll get in the way of their fear and greed.

    #SwitchToSolar #SwitchToElectric #EndFossilFuels #OneEarth

    #GreenNewDeal #ScienceDeniers #GOP #GreedOverPeople/Planet #RepublicansAreNazis #BanAllInsurrectionists

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