Evacuations North Dakota

The Red River's brackish reign over this defeated city was nearly complete Monday as doctors airlifted out the only patients remaining in Grand Forks' shuttered hospital and exhausted crews worked to save the last dry tract of homes from advancing flood waters. Public officials in North Dakota and Minnesota pleaded for more government relief funds to help 45,000 residents left homeless by the flood.

A small town in North Dakota was being partially evacuated Monday evening after a train carrying crude oil collided with another train, setting off a large fire and explosions, according to the local sheriff's department. No injuries have been reported,  Sgt. Tara Morris of the Cass County Sheriff's Office told the Los Angeles Times. Officials received a report at 2:12 p.m. of a train derailing about a mile west of Casselton, a city of 2,432 people about 20 miles west of Fargo, Morris said.

A small town in North Dakota was being partially evacuated Monday evening after a train carrying crude oil collided with another train, setting off a large fire and explosions, according to the local sheriff's department. No injuries have been reported,  Sgt. Tara Morris of the Cass County Sheriff's Office told the Los Angeles Times. Officials received a report at 2:12 p.m. of a train derailing about a mile west of Casselton, a city of 2,432 people about 20 miles west of Fargo, Morris said.

The Red River's brackish reign over this defeated city was nearly complete Monday as doctors airlifted out the only patients remaining in Grand Forks' shuttered hospital and exhausted crews worked to save the last dry tract of homes from advancing flood waters. Public officials in North Dakota and Minnesota pleaded for more government relief funds to help 45,000 residents left homeless by the flood.