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The water is inching closer and they could be underwater in butte larose. ashley webster is live in baton rouge with more. ashley. >> reporter: hi, they opened the morganza spillway this weekend, nine, ten gates open relieving the pressure downstream. here in roupblg r- baton rouge r steady. not good news for the people who live in that basin, cajun country, many of the small towns and communities are fleeing to higher ground. it is relieving the pressure here in baton rouge and areas to the sou...

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the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor ji...

>> its worse than we thought. its really worse than we thought. we thought maybe we might have water in our yard and this is going to come into our homes. this is going to take everything weve got. >> plus, a global business big wig charged with attempted rape, a posh new york city hotel the location, he was naked forcing himself on a made maid. were live at the courthouse where hes facing a judge right now. plus this. >> and to the people in arizona, in atlanta, georgia and atlanta, y...

Going to take for where the water is going. this is the mississippi river. this is the basin we are talking about. well put this in motion. you can see as the water progresses down. the reason for the evacuations, the reason they are hoping to get them out of st. landrys parish is because its where the deepest water is expected to be. this could be 25 feet of water as it pushes through there. a couple gauges, six feet above flood stage. that happens may 25th. morgan city, may 25th. thats when th...

Theyre trying to divert water away from the mississippi river and move it away from the big citi cities. by opening the spillway it is moving water into the basin. over 25,000 people live into that part of southern louisiana. now as long as that water continues to move south toward the gulf of mexico, it does look like it will have a big impact for parishes on the southern edge of louisiana. it looks like a lot of areas are going to be dealing with flooding anywhere from five, maybe even upwards...

Im going to walk over here and talk to you, don, and were looking at that video of the morganza spillway. you said to me earlier how has that affected new orleans? well, the good news is its actually relieving some of that potential stress. now, we have a little science experiment for you. hopefully you can see this. we have some rice. this actually represents the bonnie carey. we opened that last week. >> the smaller spillway. >> scoop that for me. >> that represents 250,000 cubic feet per seco...

Check on the top stories on cnn. new video just in of the morganza spillway north of baton rouge. today two gates were opened doubling the rate of water pouring in to the basin. it is too late for some residents in saint francisville. even though many homes are on stilts, water was higher than anyone had seen before. a man in charge of hundreds of billions of the worlds money is in a new york city jail cell on attempted rape charges. dominique strauss-kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a m...

This represents the bonnie carey that we opened last week. scoop that up. that represents 250,000 cubic feet per second. this is the morganza. ill make a mess. all over your script. >> the water will spill anyway. >> the red line indicates actually the top of this indicates the top of the levee. by taking this all out you can see the line will fall back down and back below flood stage. >> thats with both of them. >> this has had an immediate effect. unfortunately this will affect to many other p...

photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. im don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. its a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from t...