Thousands of people have been asked to evacuate their homes in the US Midwest, as the swollen Red River reaches its highest levels for 112 years.Rising waters have breached a dyke in Fargo, North Dakota, where about 400 people have already left their homes.
And officials in neighbouring Moorhead want 2,660 homes there to be evacuated.
Nancy Ward, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been dispatched to Fargo. The river is due to reach its highest level later.
On Friday the river swelled to previously unseen heights - surpassing the record of 40.1ft (12.2m) set in 1897 in Fargo. - BBC
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