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Working the way it was intended to work. in 1927 we displaced more than 600,000 people, and this is a whole system, not just morganza or bonnie carey, it's the entire levee system with its control structures that have been put in place. there are some hard choices that have been made in the process and not everybody bears the same burden. right now it's working the way it was designed to work which after katrina it's nice to see a levee system do that. >> well said. general honore, the morganza can handle up to 36,000 cubic feet of water per second and the bonnie kar i can handle up to 250,000...

To work. in 1927 we displaced more than 600,000 people, and this is a whole system, not just morganza or bonnie carey, it's the entire levee system with its control structures that have been put in place. there are some hard choices that have been made in the process and not everybody bears the same burden. right now it's working the way it was designed to work which after katrina it's nice to see a levee system do that. >> well said. general ho nompb re the morganza with handle up to 36,000 cubic feast water per second and the bonnie carey can handle up to 250,000 cubic feet of water per seco...

Seen since the early 1970s. army corps of engineers says more gates will be opened and will probably stay open for weeks. it is a desperate action to reduce the river level now threatening the cities of baton rouge and new orleans. i want to bring in retired general russel honore and torp marc davis, director of the tulane institute of water record law and policy. thanks to both of you for joining us. mark, a lot of people are upset about the flooding of the at chafalaya but what choice did the corps have? >> they didn't have a choice. the choice was made shortly after the 1927 flood. in many ...

photos michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone. i'm don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight. for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillways a opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. it's a pressure valve to relieve the threat of flooding in beige and new orleans, but it means tiny communities could be under many feet of water and force thousands of people from their homes. this is what it looked like back in 1973. the one and only time this spillway had to b...

before all that plastic surgery. we'll show you the photos that michael jackson wanted to have destroyed. good evening everyone i'm don lemon. the news starts right now. the legendary mississippi river is rewriting history tonight for the first time in nearly 40 years the morganza spillway was opened today to divert the swollen river into the atchafalaya basin. in they communities in the basin could be under many feet of water and force many people from their homes. this is what it looked like back in 1973. the one and only time this spillway had to be opened. this underscores how ...