Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120815:17:16:00
Because the water flow has slowed down, it's allowed salt water to start creeping up in new orleans, toward new orleans, and they're worried about the drinking water supply in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is going to start work hopefully today on an underwater barrier to stop that salt water but here today, we're seeing another effect of the low water. we're on the army corps of engineers dredge in the mississippi river. this is essentially a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up sediment from the river bed and spewing it out into the center of the river, sort of letting it disperse wit...