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CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 30, 2021 14:02:00

inches of rain. the biggest hazard is flash flooding and rising waters and extreme danger due to storm surge and high winds and tornados. governor john bel edwards urging residents to stay where they are. let the rescuers come to you. let's begin with kirk le marine, the president of plaquemine's parish, reporting a levee failure and told anyone to evacuate. it is good to have you on. >> thank you. >> first, could you tell us what happened with this this levee broke and how many people that put in danger? >> it was a levee that we tried to connect from the levee to our back levee. it is a makeshift levee. we built i small bridge over the road for access for people. it breached last night. and around 11:00, midnight, so we had to round up some of our

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