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Tell us about how much of an area is being impacted here. >> were talking about, to give you an idea, about half the size of the state of connect connects. were talking 3400 square miles. here is the area were talking a. here is the morganza flood gates. they started to open that. this is necessary to alleviate some of the stress on the mississippi river. here is the mississippi river. the water is going to be pushed this way, to the west. its also going to be bringing some of the heavier water ...

Jackson square, right. it points right across there? andreas is my executive producer. hes from new orleans. im from baton rouge. you take the ferry over or the bridge. theres two sets of levees, an old levee and a new levee. its topped the old levee and it looked like its going to top the new levee. this is about 90 miles downriver from the morganza swillway. algiers point. thats what everyone knows. since were talking about that now, lets bring in general russel honore. if the water is already...

Thats what theyre doing right now. theyre lowering the chance of a catastrophic failure. >> general russel honore. you heard chad myers mention katrina. when you mention water or flooding, spaengz after katrina, people in louisiana get jumpy. their nerves are on edge. >> yes, sir, and all the right reasons. they should be dealing with an abundance of caution. anyone south of morganza including bartton rouge, new orleans, and the surrounding counties that theyre in a flood zone and they should be...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre 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 cant 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...

This system of hef vlevees we h. were talking about 3,700 miles overall. where the river has crested here in the boot heel of missouri. were going to zoom in. we already heard about the first levee explosion that took place at birds point. that was up in missouri. these arent levees that were going to explode. these are going to be, like, gateway systems and spillway systems theyre going to open up to move that water. the first one, this has already been approved. the bonnet carre spillway. tomo...

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Area basically between the atchafalaya river. if the hlevee is opened seven parishes could be covered. st. francisville, louisiana. five feet of water could move into parts of houma and morgan city. this one will certainly be detrimental. thats that catch- .22. do you harm fewer people or more people? the corps has asked for them to open the morganza one. it hasnt been approved yet. that could happen in the upcoming week. >> similar dilemma played out upstream. this is complicated in so many dif...

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Way downstream, even into new orleans. so the waters are starting to rise downstream and theyre just going to get higher in the upcoming days. what are they going to do about this threat of the rising waters in some of these major metropolitan areas that are right along the mississippi river? one city of concern is new orleans. and right now the river is expected to crest just below about a half a foot below the levee. so if it stays that way, its good. that takes into account that theyre going ...

Right now nerves are on edge. >> its just bad. like i say, its an act of god. what can you do with an act of god? >> just use the common sense test. look out the back door. if the waters there today and it wasnt there yesterday, you need to be concerned. >> downstream from memphis, the flooded river wont make it to the gulf of mexico for a couple of weeks now. but no one is waiting around. right now they are shoring up the levees around new orleans. tomorrow the u.s. army corps of engineers plan...