Obama to Meet With Flood Victims

CNN reports

President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel to Memphis, Tennessee, Monday to meet with families displaced by the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, as well as state and local officials, emergency responders and volunteers.

The president's planned visit, just 17 days after he toured tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa, Alabama, underscores the severity of the current Mississippi River and Ohio River floods, which have submerged towns and cities in Illinois all the way south to Louisiana.

As many as 22 cities and communities where river levels are monitored by the U.S. government, remain flooded, some of them weeks after both rivers climbed out of their banks.

Six days after the Mississippi River crested in Memphis, the waterway remains 11 feet above flood stage according to the National Weather Service.