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>> shall we pray? [fish jumping] [ laughter ] >> thank the lord. [ laughter ]

[fish jumping] [ laughter ] >> thank the lord. [ laughter ] years of nothing nothing like this. we prayed. >> yes, but i'm a simple man. a sinner. never, never expecting this.

biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. there's no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway appears to be having the desired effect. the biggest test is still days away, the highest water, hundr...

Vehiclesburg is by boat. these houses have all been evacuated, more than 2000 houses in mississippi, close to the river, have all been evacuated. we've seen sheriffs going door to door to make sure those are evacuated, and even though there are no people, it is very quiet, there is a lot of life. you can actually see fish jumping in what was once the mississippi river coming into this neighborhood. we've seen pythons, there have even been reports of alligators but we haven't seen those for ourselves, the water level, 8-10 feet but you further back you go you see houses completely submerged. i ...

Urged people to evacuate and get people out of the way. so now they're continuing to do that as this water makes its way toward morgan city and communities along this floodway. so they've urged people to evacuate. they've done that and continue to do that and will continue to make sure people are not in harm's way here, don. so very dangerous situation, they will continue to open more of these floodgates in the coming days, but they wanted to do this in a slow process. if you look back out over here, since they opened these gates, we've seen fish jumping, we've seen rabbits trying to get out o...