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Had some breaking news coming in from the national weather service, new orleans. i'm going to go ahead and read this statement. we do have a flash emergency for lafitte, and jean lafitte. what they are saying right now, we've had a levee breach. local law enforcement re-reports levy following it over 200 people are in danger, currently we are dealing with a breach in the area, because heavy rain is coming, down we have seen about five inches just in the last hour. even though the system is being downgraded to a category one, the rainfall amounts will continue. this is troubling news as water r...

Thursday. currently have 14 million people dealing with flash flood watches, and we expect warnings to go in place throughout the overnight into tomorrow morning. unfortunate news that we do have a levee breach, and it's all due to the rain that's continuing to stack up across southeast louisiana. chris. >> janessa we will continue to check with you throughout the evening. we should say that not so long ago, the police cheese in jovita, or the breach happened said there's about 400 people who did not evacuate, so obviously they have a very serious situation in lafitte parish. meantime in new o...