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>> take me through the decision process. it can't be an easy thing to decide. are there cold, hold calculations of property and population considered when making a decision like this? >> you bet, randi. the places that are now in louisiana, most of them were unprotected because they were built on the roadside of the levee, meaning they were built into the spillway or on the require side of the levee. many of those are recreational camps but the bigger risk, randi, we've got a nuclear power plant which is right across the river from morganza on the mississippi river. and in baton rouge you've g...

mississippi river. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> that man flilives in morganz louisiana, home of the morganza spillway. it now seems likely that sometime over the weekend the army corp of engineers will open that structure for the first time since 1973 lessening the force and volume of the mighty mississippi, thus lessening the flood risks to the downstream cities of baton rouge and new orleans. but the water's got to go somewhere, and that somewhere is farmland and swamps. bayous and hamlets to the west and south. ...