whitlock stays put while continuing to roll.it's safe to get out. >> emergency workers stationed at the end of the race course are on the scene within seconds. >> is someone in there? >> amazingly they were all fine without a scratch. >> not a scratch on us. >> whitlock brushes himself off and starts shooting again. >> i wanted to shoot the helicopter i just came down to maybe give myself a bit of a buffer. >> the fire department quickly secures the scene and the leaking fuel is controlled. whitlock is grateful to the pilot whose quick thinking, he says, averted a more serious situation. >> we were coming down right on top of the road where there was a lot of spectators on the road. he put it down on the hill where he did. if he hadn't of done that, there would have been a lot of people hurt. >> certainly a memorable trip. despite the close call, he says, he'd fly again. >> i have my one get out of jail free card. i think statistically i should be good. >>> a giant inflatable slide goes airborne at a children's soccer tournament

. >> greg whitlock, reporter for the "washington post," greg, thank you. >>> some people cross the upper mid west are bracing for more flooding rivers, overflowing banks. the previous record set in 1959. we go to where floods left two hospitals teetering over the edge of the mississippi river. rebecca? >> tony, we've got records from rainfall that have been broken from 100 years. we're talking about so much rainfall in a significant period of time that they have not seen this much rainfall in a very, very long time. we're looking at the storm system right now. we're monitoring the pressure over canada spinning more rain in areas that don't need it any more because the soil is saturated. the rain forecast is going to be moving into an area of concern that focuses over parts of south dakota, iowa and minnesota. now we see the rainfall totals. we've got four gauges currently at major flood stage, and the little sioux river, which tied its record of flood stage set some time ago. we have five gauges that are currently at moderate flood stage. you can see all the flash flood warnings from the

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host: your colleague craig whitlock has a piece on " possible airstrikes fraught with competitions." guest: it is extremely complicated. competencee kinds of -- combatants the united states has been facing the last few years. guerillany largely organization is extreme the difficult. many of these fighters are dressed in black, but they're not marauding across the desert in tanks. they dig into cities, urban areas, they are difficult to identify. what you want to be hitting and ensuring you are not killing civilians at the same time is extreme the difficult. take mosul, iraq's second-largest city, which fell last week to sunni insurgents. a very close quarters. the city itself is mixed in some ways, shiite and sunni, although largely segregated in recent years. it is different enclaves and neighborhoods. but it is tough to know what targets to hit. it is not fighting a government. it is not fighting a military threat it is fighting an answer -- it is not fighting a military. it is fighting an insurgency and military weapons have fallen into their hands upon the iraqi militaries abando