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Way? >> what we've been really focusing on is that elevation. its height. we are looking at what's going to happen if the river gets the 19 feet. fortunately, in our modeling, we are not showing overtopping. our system, again, it's 20 to 2. we are not seeing the water go over. unfortunately we do know that forecasts can change and that can change as well. >> harris: what has changed since we saw new orleans cross hairs years ago with the hurricane that came in slow and wasn't much bigger than the storm when it finally did all the damage it did? >> sure. for the river, we've been able to manage...

Frequently. it angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city that's failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there's a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more often than not, beautiful people. where's that sandwich? >> andy: i've been thinking about this a lo...

It angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city that's failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there's a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more often than not, beautiful people. where's that sandwich? >> andy: i've been thinking about this a lot recently. ...

It angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city that's failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there's a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more often than not, beautiful people. where's that sandwich? >> andy: i've been thinking about this a lot recently. ...

An advantage incumbents have, a geographic advantage, there's the gerrymandering issues, seven points for democrats, that's probably right around what they need to win the house. that night get it there for them, it might not. how about this, though, how does that compare? being ahead by seven points to the democrats right now to the last time we had wave elections. 2006, remember democrats, they won back the house from republicans in '06. george w. bush, post-katrina. iraq was spinning out of control. at this point in '06, these are four polls around this point in the summer, democrats were u...