from ap: The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes. But officials were confident the levees would protect the city's world-famous musical landmarks, including Graceland and Beale Street, and that no new areas would see any serious flooding. As residents in the Home of the Blues waited for the river to crest as early as Monday night at a projected mark just inches short of the record set in 1937, officials downstream in Louisiana began evacuating prisoners from the state's toughest penitentiary and opened floodgates to relieve pressure on levees outside of New Orleans.flood updates: historic mississippi river flood prompts army corps to release louisiana's morganza levee; 3m more acres of land to be inundated with water*
mississippi river floodgate opens, inundating cajun country in louisiana*
video: floodgate opens on swollen mississippi*
obama shifts to speed oil & gas drilling in US*
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83 cases of autism associated with childhood vaccine injury compensated in federal vaccine court*
n. carolina school district to give away ipod, laptop to kids who participate in vaccination contest*
babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb*
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