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Windy also. i want to try to show you the different levels of destruction here you can see the pier behind me is gone. some roads we have 4 feet or 5 feet of water that's made it very difficult for rescuers. at least 30 rescues today carried out by boat. shepard, back to you. >> shepard: steve, word that a gas station owner faces charges of price gouging. more interesting to me at the moment is this water is still rising. this has been going on for 20 hours. it has. it's been steady for 24 hours. this is the first time this really felt like a hurricane here in mississippi. we have got large pi...

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This was not that there is clear evidence that their efforts have paid off. we saw homes collapsed in the wind and the rain but the pumps that are protecting this city are humming as fox reports tonight. the levees that protect the city are holding new orleans has a flood protection system that includes 133 miles of levees and flood walls. it also has the largest pumping station on the planet. one that can suck up 150,000 gallons of flood water per second. enough to fill one olympic size pool every four seconds. the long and short of it all here is. the barriers and sensors and pumps and gates...

>> got to find somewhere to get some food. >> you can't swim so this is especially scary for you, right? >> if it hadn't been for her pushing the car to the edge and then my sister had to pull me out. i wouldn't have even made it. >> shepard: while the reporter was talking to the family, they spotted another car headed right toward that water. they raced to warn the driver, here look at this. >> here is another car coming -- oh, oh, god. >> well, they got that other driver to stop in time. she says she was so grateful for the heads up that she gave the family a ride home and to safety. east of...

>> shepard: casey only a few thousand residents in plaquemines parish. significant damage according to the governor to 800 homes yeah, the majority of them are over across the river on the eastern side of the mississippi. you see that tower back there? that's the community of braids weight. that's where some very dramatic rescues have been happening. a lot of boats called in there really the only way to reach it now by boat at this point. the water rose so quickly when the levee breached over there on the eastern side that people couldn't really grab their belongings. one man says that he had ...