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Indian ocean. retired british officer michael kay is with us. we have richard quest. there were some developments in the news conference from malaysia this morning, but no mention of the pinger sounds detected. i m wrestling with the discovery of the chinese and not shared with the malaysians two hours prior. what am i missing, richard? you are not missing anything. that is exactly the point. obviously everyone hopes and wants to hope this is true. the nature and difficulty of the task which they embarked to find the black box with the pinger at the last moment is so enormous. you have to say there are control structures. you cannot have people going rogue and announcing everything for this very reason, michael. this is why you can t. if it is not true, then the families have had tremendous false hope raised. ....
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 cubic feet of water per second. is it enough? based on current projections. things can change. if we have a failure, if there s something we don t catch, the levee guys are doing a good job recounting those levees. if we have a break, for instance, history has shown we ve had seven or eight breaks between baton rouge and morganza in the last 100 years. ....
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 second. is it enough? based on current projections. things can change. if we have a failure, if there s something we don t catch, the levee guys are doing a good job ....
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 ways people have to understand this system is 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. ....