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It. >> i would build a great wall. and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. and i'll build them very inexpensi inexpensively. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. >> all right, drew griffin joins us now. and drew, you've been looking into these numbers. what are you learning? what goes where? >> well, it's basically a wall in chunks and it's not a lot of wall, as you said, john and poppy. it's just 62 miles. part of it is in san diego, where you have 14 miles of replacement fence and another 14 miles of new...

Sector. that's mostly land that the federal government already loans. but in texas, which you already had up on the screen, they want 28 miles of new levee wall system, so that's a combination of a levee wall and border protection, and also six new miles of more border wall in that texas region. really, this is low-hanging fruit. this is obviously places where customs and border protection says it really needs this kind of wall. but it's pretty darn expensive when we calculate this out. this comes out to roughly $16 million per mile extrapolate that out and you're surpassing all the estimates ...

Too. but this town, if you see this, the army corps of engineers said beaut -- butte larose. and that is protected be alevee wall system, but east of, there amelia is not so protected. this is the back area here, and that town will be certainly probably will called devastated. >> this has not been opened since 1973, right? >> right. it does not open often. over to new orleans with this great map we have, and this is what is going to happen. this is where the water will be. now, what does that mean? put the legend on here, and if you see orange that is 20 feet of water and the yellow is 15 feet...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the water's got to go somewhere, and that somewhere is farmland and swamps. bayous and hamlets to the west and south. ...