wife on a raft with one bag of possessions in the raft. she just looked really tired and said, we have three or four feet of flooding. we lost it all in katrina. i m getting older and i don t know how much more i can take of this. you feel for her. it s not a scene you often see. a man pulling a woman on a raft. it seems like a picture from a long, long time ago that we re seeing in 2012, in the u.s. shep: it really does. steve harrigan, this time in kiln, mississippi, in the southern part of the state. thanks very much. well, we ll go to la place, louisiana in just a moment. there have been different areas that have had flooding just up to their eyeballs in many case. down in placquemine parish. anna kooiman andmous problems. head east. we ll update you from the republican national convention
from a roof top in the area. also want to mention the emergency operation center in the parish is telling us it s not clear how much flooding and damage has been done on the ground as a result of this levee overtopping. the army corps of engineers telling us that their levees, all theirs r intact and the one that overtoppled was one that did belong to the parish. back to you. steve: anna, thank you very much. gretch, over to you and a special guest. gretchen: it s governor scott walker of wisconsin. last night he received a huge welcome as he took to the rnc stage, reminding delegates how his policies turned the state of wisconsin around and mitt romney can do the same thing. in wisconsin two years ago, too many americans think our country is headed in the wrong direction. mitt romney understands, like i understand, that people, people, not governments, create jobs.
news alert out of louisiana because water has come over the top of a levee near new orleans there. reports of people trapped in their homes. close to 415,000 people now without power in that state alone. we have fox team coverage. phil katy something in theodore, alabama. first, let s go to jonathan serrie live in new orleans. good morning, again. you mentioned the power outages. we still have electricity in this portion of downtown new orleans. most of the city is reportedly without electricity. however, city officials say this is not affecting the drainage system. all of the sewer pumps are working. power outages not affecting them. the levee system protecting new orleans is holing up and forgetting the city. but it s a different story in portions of placquemine parish. there is a levee on the east bay that s been overtop.
after. josiah marcus and. next up on the run down. live from tampa. hurricane isaac battering the gulf coast. and we are going to talk to the parish president where it is happening, coming up. next, with dualing ads out whose medicare message is getting the swing voters. former presidential candidate tim pawlenty reacting to chris christy and his speech last night. g.g.g.
steve: we start this half hour with a fox news alert. now hurricane isaac slamming louisiana at 80 miles per hour. some gusts up to 100. rescue efforts underway for people trapped in placquemine parish. the hurricane causing at least one leveehere to overtop. water going over the top. 400,000 people in the state without juice. we have fox team coverage following the hurricane. maria molina is tracking it. but let s start with elizabeth prann in new orleans. let s start with you where it is windy. yes. we get a moment of reprieve like we re getting now. then we get these gusts of about 61 miles per hour. we re also seeing this rainfall that is just unyielding. it s starting around 8:00 p.m. last night. we expect the conditions to stay