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This is still an active rescue scene. if you any loved ones involved, the number of people on the ground they are in this rescue operation is unbelievable. pictures coming and have been unbelievable. amtrak 501, still waiting to hear what the number of casualties may be, fatalities may be. we do know -- >> kennedy: we dont want to speculate at this point but you know for certain that the amount of coordination required as john hiatt was telling us to stabilize those trains and how difficult that...

I think what we need to do, carol, we need to separate the above-surface search with the plethora of maritime assets used over the past days from the subsurface because theyre very different. the airborne search has been operating at tempos and search tempos that are unsustainable. and theyre unsustainable from an air group perspective in terms of the fatigue and the human factor side. and theyre unsustainable from the engineering perspective. so the physicality, of having to service all of the ...

Seeing. again, well give the river what it needs. well continue to take as much off the top that we can afford to do. >> heather: amazing pictures as weve seen this unfold. was there any alternative? i read if you had not done this, this disaster would have been worst than katrina in terms of affecting new orleans? >> we have lots of scenarios that we run for planning. my staff briefed me on different options. theres no doubt this was the best course of action this is consistent with our manuals...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. youre in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, im fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisianas biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. thats what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 1...

>> theres a slow opening for a lot of reasons. one is from an engineering perspective. the water will come out of here pretty quickly. you dont want to scour the back side of this structure. from an environmental perspective, ofb yous think there are lots of bear and other wildlife. we want to make sure they have the opportunity to get to higher ground. last but most importantly, from a human perspective, we want to make sure folks have the understanding that water is coming their way and they n...