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2000- 2012 where we had of course a nine to 12-foot storm surge. the three to five foot storm surge will be fuch to impedethe flow of the mississippi thats expected to hit 19 feet. yesterday the height of the river in of course new orleans was 16. almost at 17 now. so a closer inspection of the graph tells us here this little peak this is the surge, anderson that southeast wind, backs that river up, going to 19 feet. that expect aches that was yesterday at 20 down to 19 is significant. because t...

Side was the split off the levy to the east and left that what left the neighborhoods full the wear. the failure of other levies led to the devastation. hundreds of people dying in new orleans. up to 1,800 total from hurricane katerina. right across from this canal is a water pumping station. as we speak we hear it. there are people inside. the purpose is it to pump the water into the lake pont train behind the building. officials in new orleans feel that that pumping station, the new levy syste...

Out now with the pump system but additional rain and flooding is expected in this city. lets get to the storm. its still a disturbance, it is not yet a depression, that should happen later today. the hurricane center thinks it should become a tropical storm in about 28 hours and 48 hours from now become a hurricane just south of southern louisiana. weve taken houston out of this, its mostly a louisiana problem and rainfall problem in areas of mississippi. heres my greatest concern. heres the sto...

Bone dry one minute and then torrential rainfall the next. there is now a mix of voluntary and mandatory evacuation orders now across the region. >> i dont think my life or my childrens life are worth it. that money will come back. >> where are you gonna go? >> go up 55 and where we stop, we stop. >> reporter: that man we talked to is taking his four kids and going north. folks are at various sandbagging stations that have been set up. theyre getting their boats out of the water, depleting shelv...

Preparing and addressing the concerns that we had, trying to reinforce and mitigate any kind of concerns we had along our levy system, we did not have rain. we did have two days of rain and now were back, were having a couple days of sunshine and as i just saw your weather forecaster, weve got rain l coming. weve had a team today at our emergency management director, brad thomas, the crawford county sheriff, ron brown, and his -- a couple of his deputies and four members of the arkansas national...

And this team went into that area and covered it with plastic in anticipation of the flooding that over the next few -- not flooding, but the rainfall over the next few days. eric: are there any people in danger at the moment or is it pretty well under control, even though were seeing live pictures from conway of how massive and strong this flooding is. >> we have 22 miles of levy system in crawford county that protects severa square miles, im talking probably 5,000, 6,000 square miles of land a...

Necessary. joining us is now one of those people is jim darling of mcallen, texas. of the border that your city shares with mexico, what percentage, if any, do you have any sort of barrier, fence or wall on it currently? >> well, were not right on the border. were a couple miles away from the border but our southern portion of the city has some wall on it. its on the levies. we have a levy system that controls the river flow from flooding and several years ago they built some walls on the levy a...

Something we entertain a lot of folks from up north, they call affectionally snow birds down there. when it is cold up north, they come down south. theyre great. its great for them. its great for the economy. it is great for jobs. so that would be one example of a way to work collaboratively with the state and local officials, to come up with the right solution. i remember a few years back in hi hildalgo county, texas, using the steakeholder approach, we came up with a win-win propositi proposit...

For more blooding. emergency management director for alexander, illinois. mike turner. mike, we know one levy has already over topped. are you monitoring a second potential breach? >> well, yeah right now, it is actually the same levy. what started overtopping yesterday, there were five breaches in it that occurred last night. but it is the same levy system that other levies appear to be right now holding pretty good. its the small levy that were concerned with that weve had the problems with so...

Behind you. >> reporter: thats exactly right, tamron, were here in laplace and president obama is scheduled to travel here in just a few hours, a trip the white house says was scheduled before mitt romneys trip to louisiana last friday. and behind me is what the president will see, peoples lives in their front yards. residents here are still cleaning up the damage days after hurricane isaac blew through here, and this neighborhood in particular took about four feet of water in the streets, sever...