Hail to the sandbaggers!

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Fargo, North Dakota is being protected from rising floodwaters by an energetic band of volunteers who are filling and stacking sandbags to construct temporary dikes. Among those volunteers is Sarah Mayo, a junior at North Dakota State University, who joins John to tell us how things are looking in her hometown.

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