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On the banks of the river in Vicksburg, Miss., 12 people -- including infants and children -- live in one house.

Mississippi still rising in the Delta...U.S. intel still sifting through bin Laden papers...Libyan rebels make advances RENA LARA, Miss.

The declaration makes housing and loan assistance available to residents of some counties affected by flooding.

The flooding along the Mississippi River is expected to damage farms in states from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf of Mexico.

Water from the swollen Mississippi River poured over a century-old levee Thursday, flooding 12,000 acres of corn and soybeans despite farmers' frantic efforts to shore up the structure.