swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don t know if it s going to hold even with this. they re being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you can t take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he ll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this is what is being flooded. this is all just moments ago. once they started to release the pressure on the morganza spillway and let that water out, look at the levees. water pouring across the levees. that s the mississippi river there. look at that. unbelievable. we re going to follow this breaking news story for you because we don t know what is going to happen here. we don t know how this is go
water begins the long, slow process of making its way toward the gulf of mexico, and with it heartache and pain for many people who live in the community who will be in the direct path of the water. so they ll be watching this close lar. we re about 45 mile s north of interstate 10, and officials say it will take about a full day for a lot of the water to make it to interstate 10. we don t anticipate any closings. it s suspended over the swamps and water there. and then it will take three days get to morgan city. as you mejzed off the top, it s all about the pressure on the levee system along the mississippi river between baton rouge and louisiana. anything over 1.5 million cubic feet per second of water is too much for the levee system to handle. it can cause problems and could be devastating for the levees. they had to relieve the pressure off that. the colonel here who is in