the big question will be whether the floods plane map put together by the government says, you have to have flood insurance. well, the mortgage company will go, will require you to have a flood elevation certificate, to show what elevation and flood zone you re in, based on. you have to produce a policy showing you have flood coverage. there are a lot of people that are going to find out the horror of all of this, they can then turn to the government and get a small business administration loan. but the reality is, you wind up with two mortgages. right, that s what happened here in, 98 we had a really bad flood. this year we re looking right at 45 feet, back then we had 50 feet. we had 300 homes that were flooded.
because the natural habitat is now underwater. as we were leaving the natchez coast guard the fire department said they spotted another alligator in the water. one of the many challenges in all these communities. the crest in expected on saturday. hoar it s predicted to be next tuesday. some of these homes could be gone by then. but the homeowners here still can t believe that. it s been high here before, but never have i had water in my yard. never. i m one of the highest pieces of property in butte larose. we re praying it doesn t come up four or five feet. then everything i did in here would be just devastated. i don t know if i would ever want to come back. we ll continue our flood coverage here. also ahead, new details of the sex scandal that has one of france s most prominent political figures in a new york
show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. that s the edge of the river. it s rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississippi crests near here next tuesday many of the homes could be underwater. dwayne moved here four months ago for the peace and quiet. he likes the birds and the schools. a lot of broken hearts right now. a lot of broken hearts. but in the back of our mind we all knew that it would happen. we just didn t know when. so we just, like i said, we just deal with it. that s all we can do. tonight there s a bit of a mixed message from political leaders. on one hand they re pleased with flood control a
and in the moment for her. pia carusone, thank you for your time today. thank you so much, john. more of our flood coverage when we return. also tonight a major sex scandal unfolding in the united states is shaking up the world of international finance and french presidential politics. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we re covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible.
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 jindal here explaining the tough decision to open the spillway he says will protect larger communities without a doubt but for the families right in the devastated zone, listen to how many homes could be, could be just buried. look, worst case scenario and i don t think the numbers will be this bad. they said 3 million acres under water. 20 to 30,000 people will be flooded. approximately between 11 or 15,000 homes. since then the estimate has been revised. they didn t have to open as much of the