Six US states brace for record flooding

Aerial view over the city of Cairo, Illinois, USA as it is surrounded by the flooding Ohio River (bottom) and Mississippi River (top) on 03 May 2011. The US Army Corps of Engineers used explosives to created a breach in the Birds Point levee with on 02 May 2011. Officials hoped breaching the levee would allow water to fill the floodway to relieve pressure and lower the flood levels upstream at Cairo and other communities. EPA/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/DAVID CARSON