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That, but this is going to be so much worse than that and that's the big concern. they opened up the flood gate and one gate at first, they want to allow the wild life a chance to get out ahead of it. there's a louisiana black bear here, a lot of wild hogs and they have a chance it get out as well as the deer and such and concerns about the turtles, slow moving, won't get out of the way and there are about 25,000 people who live in this area and about 11,000 structures that are going to have some sort of flooding and a lot of those will have complete inundation and put this into perspective, g...

i get carlos santana, morgan freeman, ernie banks in the same room and try to get them to stop selling themselves short. documenting a terrorist takedown. those s.e.a.l.s who went in after osama bin laden had high-tech cameras. we have new details for you. welcome to this "cnn sunday morning." i'm t.j. holmes. as always a special good morning to our military men and women watching us on the armed forces network. thank you for being here and thank you for what you do. we need to start with what's happening in louisiana, an intentional flooding that's taking place. look at this here,...

Morga morganza, louisiana. as ed said, likely, others will be open as well. more water will be released from the mississippi river. the downside to that is a number of homes and farmland will be sacrificed as this also helps protentially save new orleans and baton rouge. we're talking about watching this right now, but over a span of up to two weeks to see how much damage or how much protection this offers. >> absolute lay. we're going to be dealing with this rising water going downstream, but also want to point out to you, it's going to take a while before we see the rivers falling below majo...

More. when you open up the flood gate, we'll see more of the water flooding the area you're seeing just to this region to the west. that is going to flood roughly about 34,000 square kilometers. this area for butte he rose, that doesn't have a levee system. as i take you over towards the east, talking about morgan city. you can see populated area. they do have a levee system. everything plays out, it looks like hopefully morgan city will be doing pretty good. keep in mind. pay attention, a little more about morgan city. as i show you a little more about levees. just imagine if there is a levee...

Tell us about how much of an area is being impacted here. >> we're talking about, to give you an idea, about half the size of the state of connect connects. we're talking 3400 square miles. here is the area we're talking a. here is the morganza flood gates. they started to open that. this is necessary to alleviate some of the stress on the mississippi river. here is the mississippi river. the water is going to be pushed this way, to the west. it's also going to be bringing some of the heavier water into the atchafalaya river. as we go down more, this is interstate 10. it's a very heavily trave...