Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110514:16:03:00
Like this, not here, not in this spot. >> reporter: you're confident about these walls holding up? >> i have to be, yes. have to be. >> reporter: if for whatever reason they fail -- >> total catastrophe. this entire city would flood, without a doubt. >> reporter: are you angry that they're opening up the morganza spillway? >> not really. i think we all lived with the idea that, hey, we know this is the potential, this is what this whole floodway system is for. wouldn't want to live anyplace else. but that's part of what comes with it. but certainly this is a floodway. it is built as a floodway...