Water levels fall after engineers blast holes in Mississippi River levee in Missouri

Levels on the swollen Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois, have fallen more than a foot since the Birds Point levee was breached. The action sacrificed 130,000 acres of farmland and about 100 homes in Missouri to spare Cairo, a town of 3,000.As Latresser King and her family waited to learn when they could return home, engineers blew another breach in a Missouri levee Tuesday in a desperate bid to save her small Illinois town from record flooding.

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