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Science? great. im like, what, all of you, science? anybody want to learn about the president, the election? why science? they hadnt had science ever. why? its not on tests. even beforehand, its not on the test. there was such a fixation about the test. this is stem education. meryl johnson in cleveland told me in cleveland, she actually just retired. great english teacher, cleveland, a place where were trying to work together. the levy just passed. the austerity in cleveland, she has 55 kids. i...

Waterways water will over top the levees and fill into a community that is surrounded by levees. the water sits there. what a controlled release is when they go in with heavy equipment and shovels at times and they put intentional holds or do what they call cutting the levy. what that does is allows the flood waters to drain out of the community much faster than if the pumps were working by themselves. they have pumps there pumping the water out as well. when they cut the levy the flood waters r...

Is going to be down here in the slidell, louisiana area which is 30 miles north of where im standing, one of the areas hardest hit and it is on the north side of lake ponchartrain. i got to say new orleans itself, the cityity self fared isaac pretty well. most of the flooding and evacuations and high water rescues happened in and around the big easy. look at this video out of louisiana which is in plaquemines parish. if you have been following the isaac coverage this week, it was one of the hard...

And first lets go to our new york newsroom with the other headlines. mary ann? >> isaac down graded to a tropical depression but flood waters continue to be a problem in several gulf states, one levy in southeastern louisiana was breeched understood to loosen pressure. 500 people forced from homes and two deaths its gn a grim reminder of hurricane katrina which devastated the area in 2005. >> and you can see these people did so much to rebuild their lives. just seven years aggie and you know, so...

A great president. not only was he well prepared for the job, but when the unexpected took place, he handled it with vision, a clear strategy and calm nerves. >> the former presidents both said they have no doubt mitt romney will make a great president. isnted that sweet. as a child you want to please your parents i am sure thats the ultimate pleasure for both of them. >> the time is 19 after the hour. hurricane isaac packing a big punch. so much rain, water coming over the top of that levy near...

President there, the water went over the levy but didnt break and there has been no damage. all levies are holding. local representatives are saying they believe all of the levies will hold and theyre ready for whatever the storm brings. that said theyre expecting wide spread power outages. 100,000 homes and businesses were without power and there are many more hours to go, 36 hours of solid rain is projected so there is all night tonight and next night and into the next day its going to be a lo...

That is just the city. all other areas are going to be there as well. >> is this going faster or slower than katrina? stronger or weaker than katrina? we assume levies are built up but only fwoilt a cot gorey three if it sits on the city its going to feel like a category five. >> its a far weaker storm than katrina was. this is a category one. katrina had been a category five. so this -- katrina was moving much faster, this is a slower moving storm and going see 10 dash 15 inches of rain and tha...

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Have the extreme weather we are experiencing. you can literally now see the rain pouring t. wasnt just 30 seconds ago when we started talking to you. but you talk about things being a little bit dederted. if you -- deserted. normally, at this hour, new orleans, a lot of people out and about, not so much. a lot of places are boarded up. a lot of people heeding the warnings, although there were no mandatory evacuations in the crescent city. it was more of a voluntaria basis. a lot of people said t...

Standing by, willing and able to help us get through this claka lammity. >> when hurricane katrina, category 3, new orleans was under, in some spots, 20 feet of water. i remember being there, six months and even a year later, when many of the parishes looked exactly the same as they did after the storm. do we have it better this time? will the federal government and any. ageno a better job? >> well, i would hope so. i would think that after that type of calamity, we have assessed t. i know that ...