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Intended to deplight size the corps' budget. neither demint nor the corps would discuss the proposal oovps. even with pressure from some lawmakers, shrinking budgets and a daunting challenge from mother nature, the corps is preparing for what comes after this year's historic flooding. >> there's going to be an extraordinary concern about the main purpose that the corps of engineers has which is the saving of human life. what we will be looking the do is to understand evermore effectively how the water moves in the main channel, in the mississippi river, how long will it be before people can ge...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. you're in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, i'm fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisiana's biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. that's what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 15 feet. the morganza spillway hasn't been opened in nearly 40 years. but for the u.s. army corps...