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The waves and help take some more pressure off the wall. it is two miles long. this is just part of 350 miles surrounding new orleans levees. it is not the end-all. this will not secure the city totally. but this will be the first line of defense for a great number of people who live in new orleans and worry about the levees. just having this will strengthen the entire system substantially. >>shepard: looks like an afternoon storm on the way. they started this 15 months ago? >>reporter: yes, planned it for three years and started building it 15 months ago and this is amazing. the engineers cal...

Again you called it the great wall of new orleans, a storm surge barrier 26 feet high. you see the pylons down there, megyn, there are 1200 of those pylons, 60 inches around, they are filled with concrete, they go down a hundred feet beneath the surface. in between those pylons there are brace pylons, 2500 of them. it's 26 feet high. you see the top how it looks like it's a capsule look? the theory behind that is if the storm surge really did come above 26 feet that would kind of break up the waves and take pressure off that wall. we are going to go through and show you the back side of the wa...