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Ukraine's Emergency Ministry says storms and floods have killed 13 people, including five children, and at least two more are missing.

Lt. Gov. Patty Judge demanded Saturday that FEMA remove from Iowa all the homes with external water heater compartments, which would mean 223 of the nearly 300 homes in the Cedar Rapids area must be replaced.

In 2008, a "500 year flood" to hit Iowa. The last time Iowa had a "500 year flood" was in...1993? The midwest is called the "Bread Basket of the World". If you enjoy having a reliable food supply, it would be wise to pay attention to our Earth

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Craig Harwood, an engineer at Rockwell-Collins, discusses the massive waters that flowed through downtown Cedar Rapids.  (0:50)

Clean up continues at the Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids plant after the june 11-13 flooding.

Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area the size of Maryland.

Thirteen people on cleanup-duty at a flood-damaged building in Cedar Rapids ended up at the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Two tales emerge in the saga of Iowa's libraries and the floods. In one story, the majority of facilities escape the murky water. The other account details the harrowing losses of a handful of libraries smacked by the surging waters.

The floods engulfed an estimated 2 million or more acres of corn and soybean fields in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and other key growing states, sending world grain prices skyward on fears of a substantially smaller corn crop.

Donate to the victims of the 2008 Iowa Floods. Almost every major city in Iowa, from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids to Waterloo, is affected by the flooding. Some cities, like Palo, Iowa, have been completley destroyed. This flood is not typically covered by

The rising Mississippi River forced the closure of one bridge and partial shutdown of another between Iowa and Illinois as residents of the two states and other parts of the Midwest stacked sandbags to prepare for the possibility of more flooding.