[Heidi Collins, Cnn Anchor:] Very quickly, off the top here, we want to get you back to the situation in California that we are following. Getting some live pictures in of a manhunt going on for this man right here, 35-year-old Marco Topete. He is a suspect in the killing of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy was shot on Sunday and apparently died overnight. It all happened when the officers were responding to a call about an abandoned baby that was found in a car. That baby, we're told, is reported safe. But unfortunately, the officer, as I said, was gunned down and killed. Now there is a there are reports that the officers are going house to house, and they are trying to locate this 35-year-old, Marco Topete. Once again, the search has closed down part of I-5, obviously a huge interstate there. And we're trying to look at some of these pictures now to see if we can get a better idea of how fast or urgently people seem to be moving around in this area. Once again, pictures coming in from our affiliate KCRA in Yolo County. This is Woodland, California. So we will watch this story for you and let you know how it develops.
[Tony Harris, Cnn Anchor:] Heartbreak in the heartland. In northern Iowa, floodwaters crest, the Iowa River hits a record high, but falls short of the worst fears. That is small comfort at the University of Iowa, where water has swallowed about a dozen buildings. In Cedar Rapids, floodwaters pulled back, and worried homeowners wait to rush in. Today, unsafe conditions are keeping thousands from their flood-ravished homes. Some homeowners have returned only to have their hopes crushed. Their homes and their belongings awash in mud. Now let's go to the University of Iowa, where officials will assess their losses today. CNN's Sean Callebs is on the Iowa City campus. Sean, good morning.
[Sean Callebs, Cnn Correspondent:] Good morning to you, Tony. Iowa City, a city of about 60,000, like so many around Iowa right now, under water. A lot of homes have been flooded. Hundreds of people have been moved out. But Iowa City brings something new to the equation. This building here on campus behind me, the Museum of Art, stores hundreds of millions of dollars worth of priceless art, and they were able to get all of that out of the building before the floodwaters came up. And boy, what an amazing, scary few days it has been here on the campus.
[Callebs:] It's been a weeklong battle on the campus of the University of Iowa. Sandbags and prayers trying to hold back the surging Iowa River, which is now at a historic high. Allyson Schultz graduated last month and never thought she'd witness this.
[Allyson Schultz, University Of Iowa Graduate:] It's just crazy that it actually, like, got over the sandbags, and I just can't believe it right now.
[Callebs:] About a tenth of the buildings on the sprawling 1,999- acre campus flooded.
[Schultz:] It's really upsetting to see al the buildings and everything under water, especially some of the newly-renovated buildings.
[Callebs:] If there is a silver lining, the university had time to remove its heralded collection of priceless art treasurers before the Museum of Art took on water.
[Unidentified Female:] They are safe in Chicago. They got moved in semi trucks. We did it very quietly, because, of course, we had to do it quickly. And they had to be crated up properly, and they had to taken out of here in semi trucks.
[Callebs:] The art is being stored in Chicago. It took a long time for the Iowa River to crest. And it will take perhaps a week for it to recede. And leave it to the academics to act philosophical about the flood of '08.
[Prof. Gordon Mannenga, University Of Iowa:] We offended some of the river gods someplace along the line. I don't know where it was, but this is payback, I guess, for something.
[Callebs:] Well, the price could have been significantly high here. The school of music down there had about two dozen grand pianos. They were able to move all of those out in basically a heartbeat's notice as well. And that was all done safely. And real quickly, Tony, I want to show you some of the works of art here by some of the world's most renowned artists: Picasso, Jackson Pollock, also Miro. So those are just a handful of the artists here. And some more bad news, too. I talked to Sally Mason, the president of the university, and she says she believes the museum is so badly damaged, it will probably have to be replaced.
[Harris:] Boy. OK. Sean Callebs for us this morning. Sean, appreciate it. Thank you. Save that art.
[Collins:] Neither the mystery nor the floodwaters are contained by Iowa's state boundaries. Our next stop: Grafton, Illinois. One man there says he's going to wait it out as the water rises. The details now from reporter Erica Byfield. She's with CNN affiliate KMOV.
[Erica Byfield, Reporter, Kmov:] Bill Weeds always liked living near the water.
[Unidentified Male:] Out here last night for a while, fishing right here off the patio.
[Byfield:] But lately, the Mississippi River is getting a little too close for comfort.
[Unidentified Male:] Fifteen and a half inches now.
[Byfield:] Right now the water is encroaching on his property from all directions. So much so, we had a hard time figuring out where to park.
[Unidentified Male:] Yes,
[Byfield:] Within the past 24 hours, he and family moved everything in the basement upstairs.
[Unidentified Male:] The bed and dressers and refrigerators.
[Byfield:] In a spare bedroom and living room, you can see the evidence. One dresser stacked on the other. Believe it or not, it's Weeds' plan to hunker down and wait out the rising waters.
[Unidentified Male:] Just hopefully don't get a bunch of rain up north, you know? If I did, we'd have another '93 deal.
[Byfield:] So you look at all of this water and may wonder, how deep is it? So we stuck this pole in. From the looks of it, it seems like this water is probably feet deep, because I'm 5'6" and it's probably up to here.
[Unidentified Male:] I figure tomorrow night it will be on this patio.
[Byfield:] Over the years, Bill Weeds says he's just come to the realization that no matter what you do, Mother Nature is going to win the flood fight. So until the water goes down, he's just going to make himself comfortable on his own little island. In Grafton, Erica Byfield, News 4.
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[Harris:] New developments coming out of Afghanistan today. The country is threatening to send troops into Pakistan in hot pursuit of insurgents. Pakistan issues a warning: don't do it. Rising border tension and reports that the Taliban is moving into some Afghan villages. A lot to cover here. Let's get to CNN's Barbara Starr. She joins us from the Pentagon with the latest. Barbara, good morning.
[Barbara Starr, Cnn Pentagon Correspondent:] Good morning to you, Tony. An awful lot going on. I just got off the phone a few moments ago with a NATO military source in Afghanistan, and he confirms, first of all, on that prison situation in the South, in Kandahar, yes, both U.S. and Canadian forces today, as well as Afghan forces, on the move into the southern region. About 1,000 people escaped fugitives escaped from a prison in Kandahar late last week in this area around Kandahar. The fear is that they are now on the move with these fugitives and moving into Afghan villages, trying to take them over. As many as 400 Taliban militants estimated to be on the loose. So troops are on the move trying to get that situation under control. But as you say, Afghan president Hamid Karzai today saying Afghan forces would cross the border into Pakistan to deal with the rising tensions on the border, to deal with the attacks. Pakistani officials taking that possibility very badly, reacting very sternly to that, warning the Afghans not to cross the border. And even President Bush earlier today in London weighed in on the whole situation.
[George W. Bush, President Of The United States:] We can help. We can help calm the situation down and develop a strategy that will prevent these extremists from you know, from developing safe haven and having freedom of movement.
[Starr:] All of this, Tony, the real bottom line, that safe haven on the Pakistani side of the border, you know, the U.S. gives Pakistan billions a year in aid with the caveat that they will crack down on the militants, but the new government in Pakistan, by all accounts, U.S. officials very much on the record saying they are not stepping up to that, that the new government, instead, has basically been cutting peace deals with the militants. And that is leading to them crossing the border into Afghanistan and causing a lot of these rising attacks and the rising violence. And if you want to just consider how tough the situation is in Afghanistan right now, consider this: last month, more coalition troops lost their lives in Afghanistan than did in Iraq Tony.
[Harris:] You wouldn't think that. You certainly wouldn't think that. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon for us. Barbara, thank you.
[Starr:] Sure.
[Collins:] Cruisers to the curb.
[Unidentified Male:] You can turn on pretty much on a dime. You can cut little corners. You can actually take that inside buildings. You can't compare the costs to fill this up to a cruiser.
[Collins:] High gas prices leave lawmen to look for other ways to get around.