DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: There's a big headache in downtown Cleveland, this morning: Businesses with some big problems, and schools are closed, and residents are being told to boil their drinking water. The reason: a huge water main break that spilled 25 million gallons onto downtown streets. Some roads may be closed until next Tuesday while repairs are being made. We get more on the water woes from reporter Bill Safos (ph) of CNN affiliate WOIO.</s>BILL SAFOS, WOIO REPORTER (voice-over): It's a sound you're used to hearing at Niagara Falls, not in the middle of downtown Cleveland. It's a major break, one of the biggest in the city. The break cuts off water downtown and causes a back follow that drained to the west side of water.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you need?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A boat. I've been down here years, and I've never seen this.</s>SAFOS: It's something a lot of people have never seen, including Mayor White, who preferred to hop through the water to a store-front meeting with his utilities bosses.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know I'm going to get out of here. Hopefully they'll bring a car around and I'll jump on in there, but I don't have no idea how to get out of here.</s>SAFOS: A lot of people had no idea how they were going to make their way out of this. Some needed a helping hand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.</s>MAYOR MICHAEL WHITE, CLEVELAND, OHIO: This area, in all probability, is going to collapse.</s>SAFOS: But so far hasn't collapsed, but that's not to say there are no problems. There's a huge wall of mud right in the middle of the street.</s>KAGAN: That soggy, ickey mess, that report coming to us from Bill Safos of our affiliate WOIO.
Major Water Main Break Floods, Cripples Downtown Cleveland