Three deaths have been blamed so far on flooding along the Missouri River and its tributaries. Two men remain missing in Nebraska.
Yesterday authorities found the bodies of two men whose garbage truck was found in a flooded South Dakota river.
The men were last seen Thursday driving away from a landfill in Mitchell. Crews spotted a damaged guardrail Saturday on a highway along the James River and later found the truck.
The patrol says equipment failure likely caused the crash, but that the investigation is ongoing.
Officials in Dakota County say recent flooding did at least a million dollars worth of damage to roads and bridges.
The Sioux City Journal reports roads crews have yet to finish repairing damage done by flooding last summer. A dozen roads and three bridges are still closed.
Officials say the swollen Missouri River's water level has dropped far enough that a Nebraska nuclear power plant no longer is reporting a low-level flood situation.
The Nebraska Public Power District declared a "notification of unusual event” March 15th at its Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, about 59 miles south of Omaha.
President Donald Trump is meeting with GOP lawmakers today to try to kick-start the process for rounding up votes on Capitol Hill for the US-Mexico-Canada trade accord.
Some Republican lawmakers also have concerns. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, maintains that the president should lift steel and aluminum tariffs on products brought in from Canada and Mexico as a first step to getting the trade agreement through Congress.
And, the South Dakota State University women’s basketball team made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. The Jackrabbits beat 12-th ranked Syracuse last night 75 to 64.