Helicopter saves sandbaggers from Midwest flooding
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080617/capt.5665ca77c7bd4e9a9e1836d99e1b3e94.severe_weather_midwest_flood_iaso116.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=O_2SMJsthkZUyC0F0WgbEw--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Stephen Heckenberg, of Sperry, Iowa, stomps a sandbag into place on a sandbag wall reinforcing a levy holding the Mississippi River from Iowa cornfields near Kingston, Iowa, Monday, June 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding)AP - The rising Mississippi River interrupted travel on two bridges between Iowa and Illinois and forced the helicopter rescue of more than a dozen people sandbagging a levee before it broke near the western Illinois village of Gulfport.</p><br clear="all"/>
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding