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CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 30, 2021 14:03:00

constituents that are in that -- who were left in that area. that is a mandatory evacuation area. so we had to get those people to high ground. we were able to seal it last night. we continue to work on it today. dropping more sandbags. so we are now in the process of putting air boats out and getting the helicopter up to check out the levee and put up drones to assess what is going on. >> it is hard, i know, to assess. and i know you're in that process right now. do you have any estimate, any sense of how many people may still be trapped in the waters in their homes and any sense? >> this area where the water is, is pretty desolate. we're pretty confident there is not a lot of people there. we know that people heeded our warning and got out. so we have not received one 911 distress call yet. so that is a promising -- that

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