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Berthing bays with lots of bunk beds in them. it could have flooded very, very quickly. >> we heard the heroic efforts made to keep the ship from sinking. how did it not sink? >> the crew, in a word, the crew. i think when all is said and done, and the investigation is over, and all the stories can be told, i think you are going to hear dozens of stories of sailors, individually and as teams, working incredibly bravely and with unbelievable skill to save that ship. damage control, fighting floods at sea is one of the things that every sailor learns from almost the day you join the navy. i cert...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. you're in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i'm fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana's biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that's what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn't been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps...