HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) – Officials say a leak in a levee protecting the town of Hamburg from the flooding Missouri River has been fixed. The seepage began yesterday evening in an area around a farm drainage pipe.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district construction chief Robert Michaels says the leak has been fixed and crews were reinforcing the sandy ground on the levee’s northern edge. Michaels says the corps will build a 50-foot long berm along the levees edge to reinforce it against any water pushing under the levee.

Corps spokeswoman Sarah Gross says work on the levee was substantially done by this (Friday) morning. Michaels says the corps will continue to monitor and strengthen the levee until the water recedes.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The filmmaker behind a new documentary on Republican Sarah Palin says his team is scouting Iowa farms, town squares and other casual settings for the upcoming premiere of “The Undefeated.” Stephen Bannon says he wants to debut the film somewhere that captures the “Iowa-ness of it all” and connects it to the message of populist “grit and tenacity” he’s delivering about Palin. It traces Palin’s life from before she became Alaska governor past her GOP campaign for the vice presidency.

Bannon insisted Friday that Palin had no editorial role in making the film. He says plans for debuting it in coming weeks in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – all presidential nominating contest battlegrounds – is about building movie buzz and not coordinated with any possible Palin 2012 bid.

The Page & Fremont County Sheriffs are reminding the residents of their counties to use extra caution when travelling, entering, or exiting on Highways 2, 71, and 59 in those Counties due to the extra traffic on the roadways associated with the Interstate 29 detour.  The official detour, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation, does not include Highway 59, but there has been a substantial traffic increase on all of the mentioned highways.  

If you generally walk, jog, or bicycle ride on those roads,  authorities are advising that other, less travelled roads, be utilized during the detour period.  It is unknown how long this detour will be, as it could change with entrance / exit points of I-29 from the flooding.

PERU, Neb. (AP) – Another American Red Cross shelter has been set up for Nebraska and Iowa victims of Missouri River flooding. The Red Cross says the new one is in southeast Nebraska, at Peru State College in Peru, NE.

Another 24-hour Nebraska shelter is at Fort Calhoun High School at Fort Calhoun, north of Omaha. Two 24-hour shelters have been set up in Iowa: at Missouri Valley High School in Missouri Valley and at Sidney High School in Sidney.

Other shelters are on standby in Cass, Cedar, Dixon, Douglas, Sarpy and Thurston counties in Nebraska, Pottawattamie County in Iowa.

Two people were shot early this (Friday) morning in Pottawattamie County. Sheriff Jeff Danker says the incident happened in a residence located about 8-miles west of Oakland. The sheriff says the suspect, 50-year old Craig Finney, entered the home of Patricia Harker at around 2:20-a.m. The two apparently had some type of previous relationship.

Danker says Harker, and another individual, a male, were in the home at the time. Finney allegedly shot Harker, and fired at the other man, who was in the bathroom. The bullet went through the bathroom door, but the unidentified male was not injured. Finney then turned the gun on himself and fired.

He suffered what Danker believes was a non-life threatening injury. Harker however, was critically injured and taken to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs.

Danker says Finney left the scene in either a silver 2005 Mercury Mountaineer, license plate 784-CJL, or a beige 1996 Ford F150 pickup truck, license plate 937-YJB. Danker said Finney is described as being a 5-foot 9-inch tall, 250-pound white male. He may be traveling with his 25-year old son Cody.

Iowa court records indicate that a restraining order had been issued in July 2004 against Finney at the request of Patricia L. Harker, who owns the home where the shooting occurred. The order was rescinded four months later, and Finney received a deferred judgment on domestic abuse-aggravated assault charges in December 2004.

Finney may be armed. His whereabouts are currently unknown. If you see him, call 9-1-1 and do not attempt to approach the man.