WMAR ABC2 News Good Morning Maryland 6am May 16, 2011
threatening lives and small -- in small towns especially along the spillway which was opened. linda so is live this morning with the very latest on the story. linda. >> reporter: those floodgates have not been opened in four decades. it was a tough decision to make because you're basically opening the floodgates and sacrificing house of homes and businesses to spare bigger cities down the river. the water rolled across the cajun river basin swallow farms and mandatory evacuations have been issued in some parts of louisiana. officials are warning people who refuse to leave that they w...