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Hour and no matter how old the structure is, we're in the process of setting up our points of distribution to get our residents food and water and ice and tarps so we could begin the process of dry proofing what structures remain. we're in the process of dewatering three separate communities due to over topping of the levee system. the storm surge here was upwards of 14 feet. >> jesus. >> and it did cross some flood walls and things like that. >> 14 feet. i remember people storm surge is vertical. that is 14 feet high. imagine the wall of water. news are communities that are continually batter...

Proactively fortify and expand the levee system. they stabilized barriers, reinforced walls with steel. they overhauled pumping stations to reduce flooding. they built a $1 billion surge wall at a key inflection point that extends more than 2 miles long and more than 26 feet high. to avoid the scenario that unfolded 16 years to the day when storm surges overtook the barrier, and it worked. the system is not perfect. there are many who think the erosion of the swampland is something that has to be demt with as well. civil engineers argue there's more to be done to fortify the city, but we manag...

Looting or vandalism. there is a task force of guardsmen, sheriff's deputies and sheriff's deputies out on the street and they learned from mistakes that led to chaos after hurricane katrina. back to you. >> bret: mike tobin, thanks. getting a new look at the damage left behind from hurricane ida. this look from the sky. senior correspondent casey stegall is in baton rouge tonight. good evening, casey. >> bret, good evening. we spent the better part of the day up in a black hawk helicopter with the u.s. army corps of engineers and the purpose of the mission was really two fold, to give the top...

The energy goes up. after all that happens, then we'll start making all the necessary inquiries into what happened and the who, what, when, where, why and how so we can make sure to avoid this situation in the future and be as resilient as we need to be. >> i get that. by the way, some things did work. preparations in advance, like the levees held. a lot of that was investment post katrina to keep them up and running. i wonder, was there something related to electricity that was not taken care of and how long do you think it is before this is resolved? >> well, jim, i think it's two different ...

Hear about new orleans. stories being written is the levee system worked. in katrina it was ancient and not upgraded in decades. what reports have you gotten from the levee system this time and was it even necessary to help drain lake pontchartrain using the levee system? >> i think draining part of lake pontchartrain was a necessity. with these hurricanes you have no idea what's going to happen. what we were hearing is about the pumps in new orleans and a few of the pumps were not working. if they hadn't done that the levees could have overtopped. some levees overtopped in st. bernard parish....