Mississippi Flooding: Worst Is Yet to Come

William Jefferson paddles slowly down his street in a small boat, past his house and around his church, both flooded from the bulging Mississippi River that has rolled into the Delta. "Half my life is still in there," he said, pointing to the small white house swamped by several feet of water. "I hate to see it when I go back in." The river was taking aim at one of the most poverty-stricken parts of the country after cresting Tuesday at Memphis, Tenn., just inches short of the record set in 1937. Some low-lying Memphis neighborhoods were inundated, but the city’s high levees protected much of the rest of Memphis.