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casinos and a number of them that line the river where they do the actual gaming is on the river but where people stay and the resort areas that's off the river on land and those are the areas struggling with the floods and we spoke with the harrah's representative yesterday to break down some of the numbers. >> if you look at the market all nine casinos we generate about $85 million a month in revenue or would have in the month of may. figure about 12% tax rate on that, 10 to $12 million tax impact and about a $90 billion top line revenue impact. >> reporter: big numbers spreads across the entire local economy so they're going to take a blow for sure. that's harrah's, mgm down here as well. they own this property, the gold strike casino. they're using inflatable levees, guys, not inflatable, fill the levees up with water as opposed to sandbags and they've got about a half a mile of linear feet that wrap around this property and we'll get a closer
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