RIGHT CORIN THANK YOU. AND TO THE SOUTHWEST CATASTROPHE IN SOUTH DAKOTA, WHERE AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS DIED AND A MAJOR TRAIN BRIDGE BLOWN OUT BY FLOODS IN NORTH SIOUX CITY. THE BIG SIOUX RIVER IN THAT AREA TODAY, REACHING LEVELS SO HIGH IT HAS SMASHED ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS. IT CRESTED AT 45FT TODAY, MORE THAN SEVEN FEET HIGHER THAN THE CLOSEST PREVIOUS RECORD. OUR OLIVIA CALMESE IS THERE LIVE FOR US TONIGHT. AND SO, OLIVIA, TELL US WHAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE TODAY. RANDY. KELSEY. WELL, THIS TRAIN BRIDGE BEHIND ME COLLAPSED, AND THAT HAS BEEN ONE BIG PART OF THE DESTRUCTION THAT THIS WATER HAS CAUSED HERE. BUT OF COURSE, THAT PERSON PASSING AWAY AS OF SUNDAY, WE KNOW THAT ONE PERSON HAS DIED HERE IN SOUTH DAKOTA. THERE'S A LOT OF LOSSES IN THE WHOLE UPPER MIDWEST, THOUGH. HOW'S ARE DESTROYED. AND EVACUATIONS HERE WERE HAPPENING EVEN AS EARLY AS THIS MORNING. AND HERE'S A LOOK AT ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS I CHECKED OUT THIS MORNING. YOU CAN SEE HOUSES JUST DESTROYED BY THAT POWERFUL AMOUNT OF WATER, A FEW CARS STUCK IN THE WATER AS WELL. AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THE ROAD WITH ALL THAT WATER JUST RUSHING THROUGH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. AND ONE NEIGHBOR I SPOKE WITH SAID HER BOYFRIEND'S HOME IS SUBMERGED RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S HARD TO SEE IT UNFOLD IN HER COMMUNITY. CARS JUST GETTING WASHED OUT BY THE FLOW. THE COMPLETELY TAKEN OUT THAT STREET. I MEAN, THAT WAS THAT WAS THE STREET BEFORE. AND IT'S NOT A STREET ANYMORE. SO THE WATER AND THE POWER OF IT AND THE FORCE, YOU KNOW, PROPANE TANKS, BOATS ON THE LAKE, THERE'S A THERE'S BOATS, THERE'S POWER LINES, THERE'S GAS LINES, THERE'S SEWER STUFF. IT'S UNBELIEVABLE. AND HERE'S A CLOSER LOOK AT THAT BRIDGE. GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM SAYING LAST NIGHT WAS A LONG NIGHT BECAUSE THE FLOODING WENT A LOT FASTER THAN THEY EXPECTED. THEY HAD TO SCRAMBLE TO UPGRADE A LEVEE HERE. SOME HOMES, A COMPLETE LOSS, NOEM SAID. BIG SIOUX RIVER CRESTED AT ABOUT 45FT AT AROUND 3 A.M. YOU WERE SAYING THAT THIS WAS SEVEN FEET HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD, AND THIS WATER CAN DO SO MUCH DAMAGE. AND AS WE'RE SEEING MORE RAIN COMING UP IN THE FORECAST, WE'RE EXPECTED TO SEE A FEW OTHER RIVERS CREST, CREST MIDWEEK. SO WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT MORE DAMAGE POTENTIALLY COMING. BUT HERE CREWS ARE WORKING ON CLEARING THAT OUT. SO THE GOVERNOR ASKED PEOPLE TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES AND REALLY STAY AWAY FROM THE ROADS AS MUCH AS THEY CAN. RANDY KELSEY ALL RIGHT. LIVIANA THANK YOU. JUST DEVASTATING. WE'RE SOUTH. IT'S HORRIBLE OUT THERE TOO. AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN TRACK. WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THE SEVERE FLOODING CONDITIONS IN IOWA JUST SOUTH OF THE MINNESOTA BORDER AS WELL. SEVERAL CITIES THERE DEALING WITH TOUCH AND GO ELECTRIC AND WATER SERVICES AS THE FLOODS INUNDATE THERE INFRASTRUCTURE. THE GOVERNOR DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY ACROSS SEVERAL COUNTIES YESTERDAY AND TODAY. FEDERAL EMERGENCY AID IS ON THE GROUND. WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THE CONDITIONS IN IOWA COMING UP AT 530. THERE ARE MANY OTHER PLACES ALSO BATTLING RISING FLOODWATERS RIGHT NOW ALL ACROSS THE REGION. AND THE IMPACT IS VAST. FROM ROAD CLOSURES TO POWER OUTAGES TO STATES OF EMERGENCY. AND YOU CAN FIND THE VERY LATEST ON OUR WEBSITE, FOX 9.COM. YOU CAN ALSO KEEP TRACK OF CONDITIONS IN MORE INCOMING WEATHER. IAN MENTIONED THAT AT THE TOP OF THIS HOUR, THERE IS WEATHER MOVING IN TONIGHT AND HE WILL BE MONITORING THAT AS WELL NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. THE FREE FOX NINE WEATHER APP CAN WATCH THAT FOR YOU. WE WILL ALSO SEND YOU IMPORTANT PUSH ALERTS TO HELP YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES STAY SAFE DURING DANGEROUS
