BOSSIER CITY, La. — Record-setting flooding in northern Louisiana prompted numerous high-water rescues of stranded families and animals and officials said some levees could overflow today.

Davyon Hill, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s office in Shreveport, said skies cleared Thursday in the region but the area was not yet out of the woods.

“It’s not over with,” he said. “There’s still part of a low pressure system that’s in central Texas that is moving this way, and overnight it will likely bring another bout of rain to the region.”

If weather permits today, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards planned to tour Shreveport and Bossier City and Monroe, the governor’s spokesman Shauna Sanford said.

Edwards late Thursday issued a statewide declaration of emergency in light of the severe weather that’s already hit those areas and predictions of more rain.

Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Davis said two more subdivisions in south Bossier City and the area immediately around and next to Louisiana Downs racetrack were now under a mandatory evacuation.