1. Flood-weary residents in Missouri, Arkansas and Ohio are fighting to save their homes following this week’s heavy rains. Some 70 Missouri counties have reported flooding this week. At least 200 homes have been evacuated in the southern part of the state as water poured through bridges and levees.

2. Meanwhile snow continues to blanket parts of the upper Midwest. Up to a foot fell on Wisconsin and Minnesota. Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport reopened this morning after closing overnight because of the snow.

3. The FDA is telling people to throw out any cantaloupes from a Honduran company thought to be linked to a salmonella outbreak. More than 50 people across US and Canada got sick after eating the melons. There have not been any deaths. But the FDA says 14 people have been hospitalized.

4. And it may seem daffy, but this Pied Piper Duck Parade was by far the most popular event at the annual Royal Easter Show in Sydney. Crowds packed into this fashion show tend to watch models of their feathered and beaked kind waddle their way down the catwalk.