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Joining us now slidell, louisiana mayor greg comber. good to have you on. i understand your emergency crews, they've been doing some rescues. tell us what they've seen? >> good morning, jim. we have -- it was a long night last night and i finally got off the streets about 12:30. everything looked fairly decent. some trees and some power lines down. and i went to sleep, i guess on the the couch about 2:00 and 4:00 my police chief came in and turned the light on and said you need to get up. we have water in every neighborhood in town. in about a three hour period, we had probably five to six foo...

Within three to four hours the water was starting to recede and we had to pull the boats out because we would have been stranded and now we're in with high water vehicles an taking people out of the neighborhood on the lower side of town. >> the images of people rescued from rooftops makes you think of katrina and that is how a lot of lives were lost in that storm. and now the water in your area seem to be receding? >> in the bayou area, yes, sir. but we don't think that is the height of it yet. we were talking to the mayor -- president la pine a minute ago. he's on the the west end of lake po...