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Effort? those conditions you were describing not only sound uninhabitable now, but they seem uninhabitable for many days, potentially weeks or months ahead. if there are people in those communities who are piecing it together in these first couple of days, will there be an effort to clear them out? >> so to be totally honest with you, we have -- we are beginning to think post-katrina now where it doesn't look like we're going to get a quick recovery in terms of infrastructure, in terms of water drainage. sewage is a big problem for us because without power, you can't keep your sewage lines cle...

Specifically, st. john parish, st. james parish. we're sending our members out there. and we want to be help ful to or neighbors, who really received horrific devastation as a result of this storm. we are assessing our damages this morning. we will have a unified command meeting to discuss it, but we really want to assist, because we were spared. we are extremely grateful. >> of course, you and everyone was conscious about the importance of this anniversary, this happening 16 years after. the devastation in the wake of katrina. some good news, and we were discussing this a few minutes ago, is ...

Hour over a large area for a long period of time, three, four, five hours. my producers rooms were shaking. we are in a heavily reinforced concrete building that was built post-katrina. it was about 13 years old. that is post-katrina. it can different hurricane specifications it was built to withstand and it was still shaking. at the moment we are hearing the hum of generators. we don't have electricity. helicopters are flying around the area. the only cars we have seen are emergency vehicles, and that has been very few. the emergency operations center completely down in st. charles failure. i...

And the national weather service verifies that. they've issued what is called an extreme wind warning. our phones have been lighting up, left, right, and center with the alerts. and it's reserved for only the most dangerous of situations. sustained 115-mile-per-hour winds. there goes the camera lens from our particular camera equipment. you'll have to bear with us. we're in the middle of a hurricane. clearly. and conditions change very rapidly. i want our viewers at home to understand we have the ability to duck into cover. i'm in as safe of a position as i can potentially be in with a buildin...

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