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Quite serious. plaquemines parish we have information one of the levee walls or a floodgate i should say run alongside the mississippi river has failed resulting in flash flooding causing emergency evacuation despite the conditions despite telling people to get out of that area. that is outside of the levee system of new orleans. so the floodgate was very serious water is rushing up highway 23 are also earlier in the evening we had some information that water had overtopped the levee. so there's trouble in documents period. also in the earlier in the evening a number of barges got loose the re...

And an adult male was trapped inside the house. twenty-two barges got loose they are blown around the river. we know in one town one bridge they are or at least a barge hit a bridge and officials are warning people to stay away from the bridge because there is no way for them to check the structural integrity while the storm is so here. in terms of the storm itself , we certainly have seen a lot of wind damage but it is about due east of new orleans according to radar so that's why we have so much intensity of the storm upwards of 80 miles an hour in terms of what we have experience but the ke...

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Waistband so the officers say they had no choice but to fire. the man died at the hospital from his injuries. a heart-felt tribute to two hungarian stuntds who died when a barge hit the boat. crews recovered their bodies on friday. everyone involved says it's tough to cope. >> i'm taking it pretty rough, i think. >> it's a horrible thing. >> when it's a young person and two young people in this case, it's almost unbearable. it's almost impossible to comprehend. >> that was the hungarian ambassador to the united states who says the youth program will continue although the tragedy will be very...