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As high as people's chests, in some cases. to any victims potentially listening to this, if they can, given the power situation. what advice can you offer to help them through now? >> caller: as hard as it is, just try to remain calm. if you can get on top of something, stay out of the water. do that. we'll come. help is on its way as soon as daylight comes. we'll be there as soon as possible along with all the law enforcement. >> yeah. this is a dangerous storm. you've got flying debris. you can't have people out there in boats trying to get to attics and people's homes just quite yet. and th...

How do they compare on the ground what you're seeing? >> without getting to seeing exactly what has been impacted and how much yet, i don't think area wise it's quite as much flood damage as katrina was. there's several impacts in areas but not as much of a coverage area being flooded like katrina. but the storm seems to have a ton of wind damage along with it for a bigger area. they all vary a little bit. and somewhat lived up to be as bad as of a storm they said it was going to be. you know, record winds and gusts and storm surge possibilities. it's definitely wasn't a good one. >> yeah. eac...

Down. one of these levies has failed. when you put a tremendous amount of water in the region, the wind speeds, at one point, making landfall at 150 miles per hour, it's among the strongest storms we've ever seen make landfall across the u.s. in grand isle, the wind measuring device had 148 miles per hour wind gusts and it's indicative of it breaking down because of the intensity of the storm system. we lost communication with it. winds could have gone higher than that. it speaks to how intense of a storm we're tracking here. here it goes. very organized. we think it'll finally begin breaking ...

Building like we have. we have to think and pray for the people here this morning. >> yeah. we are listening to the wind. feeling it on the ground, i know, is different. thank you for being there for us. stay safe. we'll come back to you in a little bit. >> a beast of a storm here. some residents told to evacuate immediately because of a levy failure and high tide in grand isle, louisiana about 30 minutes away from now. the flood threat is active. our meteorologist is tracking this monster storm live with us. cnn weather center. it's good to remind people that, you know, new orleans and some o...

The only emergency vehicles we see on the roads are the blue lights flashing occasionally. i think they're making sure trying to scope out the situation, of course, we'll get a better idea of the devastation once we get first light here in the next couple of hours. it was a scary moment for our crew yesterday as the worst of the storm came in and that was about 5:00 p.m. evening time. it was still daylight but then once it worked its way into my time, it was a disaster. there was natural gas leaks in the area. there were trees that fell on cars behind us. you can see over my right shoulder her...