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>> reporter: you see the parish is 65 miles long from the top of the bottom. and our lowest part which goes out toward the gulf. that's it. that's the end of the road. so we have some geographically challenged areas, as you can see. we're separated by the mississippi river on the east bank and the west bank. and as the meteorologist spoke, he did say we are going to see some overtoppings in the breakaway area. so that area is the east bank of our parish. that has been under mandatory evacuation since friday at 3:00 p.m. we think we got a good bit of our citizens out. we had our sheriffs get th...

Coming into the city. so multi-billion dollar, as you say. $15 billion worth of work. but it was built at a category 3 level. there are still parts of that system that could get some over the top but we're a lot more resilient city now than with katrina, with better command and control. people get more information. they get more accurate information. the challenge now will be to get the power grid up and to find out who needs help in the search and rescue phase. the city seems to be holding up well. the pumps can keep up with pumping the water out of city, then the wind problems, and wind dama...

The higher ground area. we could probably reach them if the water has not gone there. it will be challenges in this weather. >> so there are rescues taking place right now? >> no, no calls have come into our set-up. so no. we're not sending anybody out if we can't have to. those people on the east bank are trammed on that side of the river. so those guys will try to make every attempt if something comes up. >> we'll let you get back to work. the president of plaques min parish. min parish over the years, mercedes-benz has patented thousands of safety innovations. crash-tested so many cars we'v...

Bank. but the rotation will push it to the west bank. it will be a tough few days. even though storm will movie, there will still be some challenges. >> i do want to ski, parts of the parish under a manner to evacuation. do you have a sense of how many people chose to stay? >> well, on friday at a certain point, we increased that more northerly on saturday morning and that was the mandatory evacuation. we saw a steady stream of residents getting out, moving to irwho ground. we felt pretty confident but covid has made more challenges. some people don't want to leave, some can't afford it. sf so...