the birds are flying high above the treetops. in the forest is a river. we will lift our wrists and lower them to make water waves. very soft. you can hear the water flowing. in this river are fish. we will take the right hand over our left and use our thumbs like fish fins and let your fish swim through the water it takes a big dive. >> and growing next to the river are a bed of flowers. opening one hand onfinger at a time watching the flower petal blossoms. we will take our other hand and turn it into a butterifiy much the butter fly will fly, fly, fly the and land on the flour and watch it fly away. drinking can a deer. take your thumb and the outside a n antlers. the deer hears a noise and in the distance is a hunter with a low and arrow. he sees that deer and aims for it. see your target and takes a shot and he misses and the deer escapes. the hunter's frustrated. i can't believe i missed that. he decides that hunting deer is not a night idea next time he will aim for an apple. thank you participating, you can sit down. give yourself a clap. those ar

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. >> this flying exterminator flies above the treetops of west texas, on the hunt for ferrel hogs.thing short of a four-legged menace. texas wildlife officials say that the lone star state is home to 3 million of them. >> right now, the helicopter is the best way to kill them. >> how effective? >> i kill 8 of an hour. >> the whole state has a problem. >> you can see how rough it is. >> hogs have torn up so much of jerry stone's east texas ranch, he can barely drive on it. >> the whole area is chewed up like this. >> they cause an estimated $400 million in damage in the state every year. they have invaded the pricey suburbs around dallas. he only flies with a trained shooter. he says texas allows just any hunter into just any helicopter, people will die. >> if you go out there and they reach out to shoot, if he shoot out there, it would hit the rotor blade. this is not a game. >> but he's in a battle, one that the flowing exterminator is taking off for again, and this time he worries who else might be about to join the flight. >> well, tonight, coming up, cashing in, from coffee cup

their website to say that it was 13 miles, and they are basing that on aerial surveillance photos of treetop ground. it's pretty close. >> very close indeed. casey, thanks so much. and, of course, if you want to help people recovering from the recent tornado outbreaks just go to cnn.com/impact to see the organizations that will accept your donations and help. >>> this weekend we honor a war widow. when taran davis couldn't find the support she needed after her husband's death, she founded a group now helping hundreds of families. >> my husband, michael davis was killed in iraq. even four years later, people still didn't really know how to react when you say hi, i am a widow. after the funeral, i felt ostraciz ostracized. everybody liked to write off my grief due to my young age. they would say oh, you are young. you will get remarried. i just want to talk about him. they aren't going to judge people. they aren't going to tell them grieving mom. i just wanted to create what i was searching for and just hope there were others out there that could come and help me too. i'm kartaran davis. i fou

but above the treetops and that is at the opposite end of this floodway so that some of the water can be trained. this is all farmland which will not be any good for this year at least and not the farmers are upset in a class action lawsuit is happening. the state of missouri is not at all happy about this pollution. one former a retired farmer who was here during the 1930's flood and here's what he had to say . >> the farmers in many these acres they've been very lucky they've gone for so many years without any floods. this is supposed happen once in a great while. you just have to take on them up lots of towns are back to it and lots of homes are completely flooded out. when out with the wildlife service going around to the areas that are hit hardest and love these folks will not see the waters receive for several days. now they're releasing more water upstream that has been held all this rain fall. in multi week event affecting millions of people all the way down to louisiana. them up in noblewoman had to be at rescued when she got caught up in the flooding missouri. joe's the miss

because they're still dealing with debris on some of the treetops around here.ealing with nails and debris on the ground. hear from one neighbor who is describing what he saw. >> i looked out the front window and i couldn't believe it. the house was gone. everything was in flames. i'm -- i'm still just kind of in shock about this. i really don't understand what happened. >> reporter: now, we're told the couple who lived in that house just moved in a few days ago, literally a few days ago. so of course now that we're getting some daylight they can start moving into the next phase of this investigation. tracee wilkins live on the scene. back to you all in the studio. >> tracee, thank you. >>> we have brand-new information about osama bin laden's death. his daughter now says her father was captured alive and then killed by u.s. forces. that's according to pakistani officials. who confirmed that with nbc news. the white house has said that bin laden was shot twice after resisting arrest. the white house is also still trying to decide whether or not to release photos

if you look in the tree way back there, you can see pieces of the house up in the treetops. the fire investigators now say that a gas line that was leaking for hours caused the explosion. >> it was gone in an instant. >> reporter: the loud boom shook houses like an earthquake. neighbors ran outside. the house that once stood there was now burning rubble. >> you can hear the hissing of the propane and the fire burning. >> few people knew a couple moved in days ago. >> i was like there's people in there. and then i heard ned saying we found them, you know, they're alive. >> reporter: next door, ned's house also on fire, ran to search for his missing neighbors. the man was wandering the backyard calling for his wife and then he saw her next to the azalea bushes on the ground. blown some 20 feet from the house. >> she was just asking for help, you know, and i was with 911 on the phone and she was saying help me, help me. i can't breathe. >> reporter: fire investigators blame a faulty do-it-yourself job. the man was converting from a gas to electric drier but he did not have all

. >> the first order of business after daylight was to move debris from out of the treetops near the home so that investigators could work without the threat of large chunks of roof falling from overhead. out in investigation is under way. >> at 2:55, boom, just a huge boom. >> the neighbor says that when she and her husband heard the crash overnight they thought that maybe it was a thunderstorm. they got out to check. >> my husband came running out and the house across the street's on fire, and i came out and i said the house across the street is gone. >> hundred of personnel and utility workers scrambled to the 11200 block of ashley drive just after 3:00 a.m. >> we received several 911 calls for either a fire or explosion in the house. >> everything was in flames. i -- i'm still just kind of in shock. >> there was debris in the trees and the neighbor across the street, was there roof in their yard. there was roof on the roof. there's insulation all of the way down to this intersection right here. >> the wife was found behind on the other side of the fence behind the neighbor's hous

. >> reporter: in flying exterminator buzzes just boost treetops of west texas on the hunt of forerrell hogs. the pigs he's trying to kill are nothing short of a four-legged menace. estimate the lone star state is home to 3 million of them. >> right now the helicopter's the most effective way to kill the hogs. >> reporter: just how effective? >> i killed 86 in an hour on one landowner. >> wow. >> reporter: the whole state has a problem. >> you can see how rough it is. >> reporter: hogs have torn up so much of jerry stone's east texas ranch, he can barely drive on it. >> this whole area's just chewed up like this. >> reporter: they cause an estimated $400 million in damage in this state every year. the animals have even invaded the pricey suburbs around dallas. look at what they did this to this yard. he is licensed by the state and only flies with a trained shooter. he says if texas allows any hunter into just any helicopter, people will die. >> if you bank it like this and the shooter reached out there to shoot the rotar blades are actually that way and if he shot out that way they wil

i don't know if you can see this, the treetop, that's -- i don't know if you can see it, but that areaight there, that was a fence there, a three and a half, 4-foot wide fence. as i said, it's not gonna crest until thursday. so there's maybe quite a bit more amount of water here. 1,000 homes have been evacuated in the state of mississippi and they are saying thousands of more people might be displaced as well. we're hearing, too, highway 61 may be closed in and out of vicksburg over the weekend. they are gonna make that call as they watch the waters rise. >> where are they pumping the water too -- watter to, holly? >> reporter: right back into the mississippi river which technically shouldn't be. soap the water coming in, is going right back out. it's kind of like a cat-and- mouse game but it's the best they can do. >> okay. holly firfer. back to dave and tori. >>> we're keeping a close eye on the stock market. why a stillly con valley company is among one of the stocks to watch today. >>> and we'll have a live report on the men who brutally beat bryan stow. bree: sis, help me create m

soil and earth being blown above the treetops. that is at the opposite end of this floodway.is water can begin to drain. this is farmland. this is now not so good farmland. at least for this year. that has a lot of farmers upset. class-action lawsuits happening. the state of missouri not happy at all about this solution that they've had. we tracked down a retired farmer, who was here during the 1930s flood, and here's what he had to to say about the situation. >> they've just been lucky that the few years they haven't had a flood. this is one of the things that happens once in a great while. you just have to take it on the chin. >> reporter: needless to say, it's not just farmers who are affected. there are hundreds, if not thousands of homes that will bed flooded in this situation. there are several towns that are completely evacuated. we went out yesterday with the u.s. wildlife service and we toured a couple of spots. in olive branch, the roadway flooding over it. the water's going to remain steady here. even though they've released some of the pressure, now they're releas

treetops peek out where banks once stood. a shipyard is sunk under water.eople's homes sacrificinged to the tide. the bargesmen say they no longer recognize the river they have been on for years. these barges haul petroleum for gas stations. but the current is pushing this barge so quickly down stream, it can only carry half a load, and a ripple effect that will be felt far beyond the shores. and this deckhand has seen the effects of the flooding at his home in missouri. >> my house sits up three concrete blocks high off of the foundation, and it is flooding. and when it is windy, it white capped just like a lake. >> reporter: never underestimate the power of the mighty mississippi, says the captain. >> if you don't respect it, it is not forgiving, and you to be aware that it does change as night and daily, and hourly, and every minute of the day. it is always changing. >> reporter: as day fades, the tow boat slows and night on the flooded river is now too dangerous to travel further. the "merrick jones" will have to wait until dawn to reach baton rouge, bu