counterclockwise motion pushed all of the water across lake pontchartrain and back towards new orleans. and the levees were not sure that and that levee failure is what then allowed all the water in lake punch a train to drain because the levees have failed you cannot get the water out of their. >> detrimental. things for being with us this morning we appreciate it. now we go to make tobin who has been on the ground all night. the rain is all but gone after he watched hours and hours and sheets of rain coming through new orleans. we are getting the first reports of damage done .