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>> it kind of, like, slowed down just a little, and then all of a sudden it got worse and worse. >> reporter: which the quake hit, he was in a turbine building attached to the fukushima daiichi nuclear reactor number one. the shaking was so violent, american contractor danny eudy says he didn't need a translator to know what the japanese workers were shouting. >> you know run is run. >> reporter: did you think you were going to make it out of that building? >> i wasn't sure. >> reporter: once outside, eudy says he saw cracks in the ground around the plant. a hillside had shifted onto the road....

>> it kind of slowed down just a little. then all the sudden it got worse and worse. >> he was in a turbine building attached to daiichi reactor number one. the shaking was so violent he didn't need a translator to know what the japanese workers were shouting. you know run is run. >> did you think you were going to make it out of the building? >> i wasn't sure. >> once outside, he saw cracks in the ground around a plant. and one office building collapsed. he was confident that the reactors were fine. >> to the best of my knowledge, everything shut down when it was supposed to. i was not worrie...

Looks like it did five years ago. >> they lost hospitals and university buildings. i know will people there have a lot of courage. many of them stayed. >> let me depive you the good news and bad news. bad news is in the ninth ward. we were down there in hurricane katrina when the levees broke all homes were flooded with 3-19 feet. today there is not enough money or volunteer organizations to get those places built. that is the bad story . the good news is flood system is way improved. they have a new flood wall that will be the 50 line of difference if there is a hurricane with that type of st...

Lower ninth is frozen in time. abandoned homes. many still displaying the spray painted markings left by search teams. about 15,000 people lived here before katrina. today, fewer than 3,500 have returned. still, there are glimmers of hope. the flood wall has been rebuilt higher and stronger and some new homes now pepper the landscape. about 50 of them constructed with money from actor brad pitt's foundation. and watching a young girl race for the school bus, it's hard not to smile. knight built a new home right next door to the old one. and he's replaced all his chickens that he lost in the st...

Done the river and the river is moving quickly, and it is creeping up on ten feet and it doesn't sound like a lot and the flood stage is 14 and they are expected to reach it on the mississippi by monday, which is really early and by tuesday, that is supposed to rise to 17 feet, and 17.5 feet, will get it up this high on the island and would impact the downtown airport, and more of a commuter airport, and national guard units out there as well, have a secondary flood wall they put up when the water rises, and, looking the at 17 feet there, possibly 17.5 feet will put the island partially under ...