High court declines to block levee blast near Cairo
The Supreme Court refused to halt the Army Corps of Engineers plan to breach a two mile levee to relieve the Mississippi River flood surge. Cairo Illinois conducts mandatory evacuations as National Guard patrols doors, while officials weigh risks to Missouri farmland and downstream towns.
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