morga morganza, louisiana. as ed said, likely, others will be open as well. more water will be released from the mississippi river. the downside to that is a number of homes and farmland will be sacrificed as this also helps protentially save new orleans and baton rouge. we're talking about watching this right now, but over a span of up to two weeks to see how much damage or how much protection this offers. >> absolute lay. we're going to be dealing with this rising water going downstream, but also want to point out to you, it's going to take a while before we see the rivers falling below major flood stage. we were talking about the morganza flood gate. they opened up part of the gate. is the area in the red, the spillway. this is the mississippi river. when they open up the spillway, we're talking about rushing water coming towards the west.