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1.4 million gallons per minute from this spillway of lake water going into pontchartrain. to give you an idea of how much water, how much fresh water is pouring into lake pontchartrain, it is almost two-thirds of the gulf oil spill goes into lake pontchartrain every minute. that's why there's a big mud hole as the muddy water from the mississippi has made its way there. john? >> when we arrived in louisiana this morning, the mayor was in the middle o what i'll call an animated telephone conversation with the government. he was calming down a bit. the coast guard agreed to a 24-hour freeze on b...

show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. that's the edge of the river. it's rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississippi crests near here next tuesday many of the homes could be underwater. dwayne moved here four mont...