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Viewers here that this isn't an exact science. there are about 2,500 people in direct path of the spillway and about 2,000200 others who are threatened by the swollen backwaters. the governor has urged people remaining in these areas to begin evacuating. you don't know how many people this is going to affect, do you? >> we have a sense of how many people will be impacted, but there are some of those folks you mentioned that live behind the levee. and there are communities that have ring lechbes around them, so they should be okay. we're also undertaken a flood fight with the city of morgan cit...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don't know if it's going to hold even with this. they're being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you can't take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he'll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this...