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No one seems to know for sure if that cemetery is in danger because the floodwaters are still days away. can you see it rising very slowly here. officials believe it will reach the flood wall here in amelia by this weekend. could crest by sometime next week, shepard. no one knows exactly how high it will go. >> shepard: that's part of the big struggle here that nobody has ever seen any flooding this bad. never, since we have been recording history in the united states. rick leventhal, amealia, louisiana, tonight. rick, thanks very much. continuing coverage of this coming from down river and up...

Orleans, the city has great pumps that pump that rainwater out, doing so for 100 years. the rain goes into the candles you may remember from katrina, the flood walls along those scandals are faulty. the parts of those flood walls that did not fail during katrina. 95% of those walls were never fixed, if the corps's own pumps, the whistle-blower says cannot work during this kind of event fail to pump the rainwater out of the lake, those flood walls will fail again, the danger this time around. >> even before katrina, you show there were concerns about the integrity of those flood walls. let's wa...

On this for us. >> reporter: this is a small neighborhood outside of morgan city 70 miles south of baton rouge right in the direct path of that diverted floodwater. this is where the louisiana army national guard has set up an active construction site where they are building what is seemingly an endless line of hesco baskets, a flood wall that is to top out about six feet above flood stage. you can see the front load dumb percent and bobcats dumping sands into the hesco baskets that have a heavy duty liner. they hope the barricade will stop the water. they are here 16 to 20 hours a day working...

Flood zone yesterday, and from up above it gives you a great appreciation for the levy system. the traces, the path of the mighty mississippi. it is first and foremost a flood wall. as martin savage tells us tonight, when the roads are underwater it can also double as an access trail to places like eagle creek, mississippi. martin? >> reporter: yeah, we just want to show you one other thing before we get rolling. that's look at the scene behind us. it looks like an idealic canal, perhaps, north of vicksburg. then have the camera pan onto the left, and you realize we're on the street. it's the ...

>> we're in a small community 70 miles south of baton rouge, in the heart of the river basin. in area will see a lot of floodwater. that's why the louisiana army national guard is here with equipment, dumping buckets full of sand into these baskets. they've created a flood wall on top of the levee, the same baskets you see in afghanistan for troops, filled with tons and tons of sand hoping this wall about 6 feet above the flood stage will keep the floodwaters from breaching, coming into the communities around here. shep, they've built it almost 5 miles of these temporary floodwaters, hoping th...