AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED --D THE WATER IS STILL RISING.MELTING SNOW AND ICE JAMSTHREATEN THE REGION AND EXPERTSWARN IN SOME PLACES,THE WORST IS YET TO COME.KAYLEE HARTUNG REPORTS.BRIDGES DESTROYED.HIGHWAYS WASHED OUT.CARS AND CATTLE STRANDED.THIS IS THE AFTERMATH OF A BOMBCYCLONE.THE POWERFUL WEATHER SYSTEMSLAMMED THEMIDWEST WITH HURRICANE-LIKEWINDS AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONSLAST WEEK, LEAVING DROWNINGRAINSAND FLOODING IN ITS WAKE.AND AFTER HEAVY SNOWFALL THISWINTER,NATURAL SNOW MELT IS MAKING BADCONDITIONS WORSE.

IN WISCONSIN,DARLINGTON OFFICIALS SAY THECITYHASN'T SEEN THIS MUCH FLOODINGIN MORE THAN 25 YEARS.FREEMONT, NEBRASKA, HOME TO MORETHAN 26,000PEOPLE, BECAME AN ISLAND WHENROADWAYS IN AND OUT OF TOWNFLOODED FRIDAY.NEBRASKA'S GOVERNOR TOURING THEDAMAGE IN HISSTATE."THIS HAS PROBABLY BEEN THE MOSTSEVERE WIDESPREAD FLOODING - ASFAR AS THE PARTS OF THE STATE'SBEEN IMPACTED - IN THE LAST HALFCENTURY."NEBRASKA RESCUE TEAMS HAVE BEENPULLINGTRAPPED RESIDENTS OUT OF FLOODWATERS SINCE THURSDAY.AT LEAST ONE PERSON HAS BEENCONFIRMED DEADBECAUSE OF THE DANGEROUS WATERS.JAMES WILKE, A NEBRASKA FARMER,GOT A CALL TOASSIST A STRANGER, LEFT HOME ONHIS TRACTOR AND NEVER RETURNED.TWO OTHER MEN ARE MISSING ANDPRESUMEDDEAD.THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEPREDICTS "MUCHCALMER" WEATHER IN MOST AREASTHIS WEEKEND, BUT, FLOODING WILLPERSIST THROUGHOUT THEMISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVERS.AND FORECASTERS CAUTION -- MORESNOW MELT IS ONTHE WAY.SO THE WORST FLOODING MAY BE YETTO COME.OFFICIALS SAY TWO PEOPLE WEREHURT IN A MASSIVE EXPLOSIONCAUSED BY A GAS