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>> >> shepard: ed, when time are you expecting the first landfall and then about how many hours later before the brunt of it, i guess, is closest to center we will get to the city proper? >> landfall can actually be in the next hours. but it's a very large center and little difficult to see exactly where the center is at this time. it's going to be very close to where this little white ball is, the southeastern tip of louisiana. and then the center will be moving slowly to the northwest, passing just to the west of new orleans, and near baton rouge about 24 hours. so it's going to take a whole...

To the north and so we're looking at potential for 7 to 14 inches of rain. locally 20 inches of rain. obviously areas where there is rain and storm surge, the combined effects will be even worse. >> shepard: i wonder about upriver, ed, before we go, vicksburg, jackson, mississippi, memphis and st. louis, there is a lot of rain in store for all those inland cities, isn't there? >> yes, there is now, we do expect that the forward speed will increase a bit. after a day or two. but, yes, we're expecting considerable flooding. not only up the coast, mainly from storm surge but well inland because o...

You. is that because more water is being flushed into the waterway behind you? >> reporter: we think the biggest problem, alex, is really the wind, which is what has picked up and has created a lot of wave action on this side of the spillway. this is where the water from the mississippi river comes, and then on the other side it goes out, and that's the water that is going into a rural area of louisiana that could affect 25,000 louisianans. a dramatic torrent of white water signaled the opening of the morganza spillway. the mississippi river roared through just one gate in what the army corps ...

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>> with all of the soul fearing retrospectives on tv tonight and previous days we want to concentrate on what has been going right down and around the big easy and nothing exemplifies the positive than the gigantic even herculean efforts of the army corps of engineers to put a circle of steel and concrete around new orleans that can defy even a 100 year storm. sue oo if there's ever an example of going from tragedy to triumph it would be here the west closure complex it's a giant dam essentially which is going to help protect the new orleans district from flooding. flooding that occurred durin...