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News Wrap: Midwest fears additional flooding from snowmelt

Clip: 3/19/2019 | 4m 58sVideo has Closed Captions

News Wrap: Midwest fears additional flooding from snowmelt

In our news wrap Tuesday, flooding in the Midwest has claimed three lives and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Scores of cities and counties have declared emergencies as the Missouri and Platte Rivers flow beyond their banks. Also, a new Associated Press analysis finds that far more records have been broken for heat in the U.S. over the last 20 years than for cold temperatures.

03/19/2019

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