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Ride of my life. i was a young law clerk on the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit rngand she was coming down from an exercise class. >> was she in her jazzercise outfit? >> i have to say she actually was. she was in her jazzercise outfit with leggings and a kind of hat. >> lycra. >> no lycra, this is 1992. >> got it. >> but she's a very formidable person as you know, and she's completely silent, and i just had to break the ice. i couldn't think of anything else to say, i said what operas have you seen recently? i didn't even know she was an opera fan. and of course she...

>> yeah, and it's exactly a product of this. i mean, here's the question that the press likes to ask a lot. should donald trump be impeached. okay, well, that's a political question, but when you ask the question, has donald trump committed impeachable crimes. the answer is yes. yes, maybe times 20, and a lot of these marginal districts, i think katie porter is a great example of this in california, how do you look your constituents in the face and say we're going to allow the commander in chief, the president to sit there day in and day out, run rough shot over the constitution and not hold h...

There? >> how is it going, guys? i'm sitting here on the levee and the flood gates in morgan city, they're shut there and doing their job. that water is up against the flood gate and i found a flood gate that's open and normally people pick up a ferry here and the water is creeping its way up to the wall here, not quite up to the flood gate itself, but we're definitely getting hurricane force gusts here and the wind is getting stronger with the gusts through the morning. charles: your sense from your knowledge of how these things evolve, where this might go, what we might be looking at over th...

Morgan city. >> jerry tuchman is in the french quarter in new orleans, inside the protective flood walls. describe conditions there, gary. >> reporter: well, the utter quiet in the perpetual party in the frercnch quarter is very disconcerting, until you think about this, people who have suffered so much from tropical storms are not complacent, and they are sheltering in place. this is the wall protecting the city. the metropolitan area of 1.3 million people. the brown steel structure there, that is a flood gate that has been shut. one of more than 200 gates that have been shut in the new orlea...

Combination here. this year we've seen record high flooding causing the river to rise and so then add on top of that a tropical storm, that's what officials are really monitoring right now. the good news is that it's not expected to come over the levee here. over there we see a flood gate that was just closed in the last few minutes. we saw a crew from the flood protection authority. that's what's been happening all along the river. they are closing dozens of those flood gates in preparation. the mayor of new orleans says that the pumps in the city are all working optimally, but the city can't...