Water flowing over a levee near Winthrop is flooding US-59 highway, prompting transportation officials to shut down traffic on the highway, including the Amelia Earhart Bridge into Atchison.

Elaine Justus of the Missouri Department of Transportation says traffic will be allowed to continue north and south along Route 45, but access to the bridge is being shut down until further notice.  No traffic will be allowed to cross the river in either direction.

Currently the only Missouri River crossings available between Kansas City and Iowa are at Leavenworth, Kansas and on US-36 highway in St Joseph.