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The weekend's storm that spawned the killer tornado in Kansas also deposited a downpour. Now the entire Missouri River system is facing floods. ABC and NBC sent reporters into the zone. NBC's Tom Costello showed the river in St Joseph Mo running "three times faster than normal" at eight feet above flood levels. ABC's Dean Reynolds was in the town of Big Lake Mo, named "because it lies on the shores of a big lake"--except now "it is in the lake." CBS had Nancy Cordes explain the National Weather Service's flood forecasting technology, combining "rainfall data from Doppler radar and satellite, with water levels from river gauges." The system was created after the Mississippi River floods of 1993 killed almost 50 people. This time it successfully warned of flash floods: the Grand River at Sumner Mo, for example, rose 25 feet in two days, as predicted.
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