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Need help. but also, trying to contain the damage. you talk about levees over topping and breaching, that happened here in plaqueman's parish in southeastern louisiana. that's why you have the national gou guard moving the sandbags. they hope, if the tide permits, to airlift the huge sandbags over to point celeste and to merrill grove. they're going to forklift these bags out of here. we've seen two helicopters also surveying the area and surveying the damage. precisely because of what you said. because the rain is continuing, they want to contain that situation and to patch up the levees. we ...

Here is a place called point celeste that we heard from the sheriff is also threatened by heavy flooding. so these are the two sort of emergency points right now. the focus in this community, in the words of sheriff when i interviewed her a couple moments ago, he said it's a mess, literally that's what he said. that's what these crews are dealing with right now. richard? >> marry ann atencio. thank you, mariana for giving us the very latest there in louisiana. let's get over to morgan cesky also in louisiana, baton rouge instead. when we were talking a couple hours ago here, morgan, you were...

Parish, that's at an area called point celeste. we understand emergency equipment is being brought in to try to make repairs. that was an area that was already under mandatory evacuation orders because it is so low-lying. that is one thing that is consistent here, eric. people who live here and if you have a house here, it's almost expected that at some point you're going to get flooding, which is why they build the houses up and ironically even though we're here in a spot that is taking on water and roads are closed, a lot of the residents that we've talked to aren't exactly nervous because t...

You have a lot of areas along the northern part of lake pontchartrain. to give you some perspective of how large the lake is itself, let's show you fox news drone video. they put the drone up yesterday when it wasn't too windy and it wasn't raining. this gives you a sense of what we're talking about, this birdss eye view, in terms of how large the lake is, how many communities are around it and how high the water levels are and this is without a significant storm surge and also without all of the extended rainfall that is expected over the next 24, 48 hours. we want to take you to another prob...

And out of this area. and that is what officials feared. i'll ask my cam made man eraman other way because i have the sheriff of the parish joining us. and sheriff, i interviewed you yesterday. the scenario panned out. what are your thoughts? >> obviously we have a mess, right? just yesterday all of that was dry. we didn't have no water, but we were expecting it, right? with this wind, and we really thought that the with independent wou wind would lay down but it hasn't. and unfortunately, it just keeps pushing water, pushing water. and they really don't expect the wind to lay down for another...