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Flooding Impacts Eastern Nebraska

(Omaha, NE)  --  Flooding is impacting eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.  Deputies encouraged residents in southwestern Sarpy County to evacuate after water overtopped a levee near Capehart Road yesterday.  All 26-hundred residents of Missouri Valley, Iowa were ordered to evacuate yesterday after multiple levee breaks were reported.  The state patrol says two people were rescued from a vehicle that got caught in floodwaters near Pierce yesterday, and residents along the Platte River between Ashland and Gretna were asked to evacuate last night.