Sensitive Air Force Base Flooded

Some of the Air Force's most expensive and strategically sensitive aircraft have been evacuated from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, after it was flooded by the Missouri River over the weekend. At least nine aircraft were flown to other bases and crews were working around the clock to try to protect facilities that are the heart of NORAD's strategic and intelligence operations. By Sunday, more than a third of the base was underwater and since much of the most sensitive facilities at the base are underground, the threat from the flooding could be catastrophic.

According to thedrive.com, the Air Force just finished moving a command bunker that controls the U.S.'s strategic nuclear forces underground. The new bunker was commissioned in January. It's not clear if it was affected. The base is also home to the so-called doomsday planes, the Boeing 747s that the president uses in times of threat and crisis to act as an airborne military command post.