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Rivers close in

Tuesday 27 July 1993 23:02 BST
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Thousands of businesses and residents piled sandbags at their doors, boarded up their windows and cleared out as the Missouri and Kansas rivers closed in, AP reports from Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas and Missouri rivers were both expected to crest just below their flood walls.

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