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Water pass beneath them. theyve experienced those problems before. obviously our pump system can only handle one inch of rain water the first hour and a half inch every hour after that. so i like to say our streets are designed as retention ponds. fortunately in jefferson parish we havent had much structure flooding even with eight inches we received the other day. if we have isolated events of 15 inches of rain or 12 inches of rain, yes, we are going to have structure flooding. theyre telling u...

Earlier this week this fills up like a bowl with all that rain, and then the huge pump system kicks in, pushing that water out to lake pontchartrain over here the concern here is that the river is so high. and were talking about potentially so much rain, maybe more than what youve been talking about. then you dont know how to get the water out. they dont expect this to happen in new orleans, but if theres enough rain. what do you do with all that water even if youre trying to handle it. there ma...

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...

Who was with him on his island, in his manhattan townhouse while some very bad things were going on. >> oh, and wait, alex acosta gets job as labor secretary. interesting. elliot williams, thank you very much. still ahead on "morning joe," nancy pelosi takes on the squad. tensions are flaring between the house speaker and four progressive freshmen democrats despite a new call for unity. plus, new reporting that iranian ships tried to intercept a british tanker in the persian gulf. well talk to...

Because of those rushing waters. others abandoning their cars on flooded streets. trains in arlington, virginia, plowing through a waterfall inside the station there. some flights delayed. amtrak service suspended for hours. and heres abcs stephanie ramos now. >> reporter: a flash flood emergency around the nations capital during the busy monday morning commute. up to half a foot of rain falling in just two hours. forcing dozens of water rescues. drivers scrambling to the top of their cars to sa...

A lot of devices but this is more than one of more than one very different to show you here this one. only two parts this is the. theres of the pump system which is in the straw to him and another system is its a little different here you can see the pump of the scrotum. the car for the reef and two balloons to produce the treasure has a very difficult operation its a special operation of set like this. just below the skin so its not deep operation like gastric operations. but the structures are...

Arms, the international effort of american, british, chinese, australian, military divers joining up with the specialist british cave divers who have been, in some ways, leading this effort to get these boys out. that they even attempted this is extraordinary, and it was a very difficult decision to even pull the trigger on this operation. the last few days you could really sense the authorities struggling with when to start this operation. they had this window with the rain that is actually lig...

In any way. >> along with his unique relationship with the birds, rasha had a unique living situation, as well. he lived on his own, away from the other inmates. >> he had this unique situation. he lived in this little shack on the prison grounds. he didnt have to dwell on the dorms or cells. his whole job was to take care of the pump system at the prison. >> translator: this machine sometimes breaks down in this place. the other one can break down, too, when theres a lot of rain and mud. thats ...

Miami beach. this was quite a trauma, a trauma for the entire state of florida. it leads to a bigger issue of comment these storms that we are seeing, very unusual but now they are becoming the new norm. how you make your city resilient so you can handle these types of events in the future? >> jon: you can get a storm surge that overwatch to the entire barrier island, anything like that? >> we did, we got a storm surge. we were literally 2 feet above what we call can king tide, the highest tide ...

This storm wouldnt really have allowed crews to take it down. if you truly need that much time to dismantle one, and it is a great question to ask of someone. is there a way to partially dismantle it. can you lean it over. look how tall they are. sometimes theyre taller than tops of buildings are. it is very difficult to get those out of the way of a storm like this. >> sam, we are expecting an update to the hurricane top of the hour, sometimes comes early. brian williams will take over in a mom...