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If it comes back. >> morgan city is typically on an island. there's a river that runs down the side of us and drains 30% of this country's water. we have a 17-foot federal flood protection wall with gates, they have 27 gates. we have 23 of those gates closed as we speak. the river was already high before this storm comes in. this storm has raised it an additional 3 feet. so our river right now stands at 10 feet. our wall's at 17 feet. our flood protection for rising waters is in pretty good shape. the problem is, our entire city is under pumps. so if we can't pump it out, it doesn't go he anyw...

Been rehabilitated, billions of dollars spent in new orleans, but in the past flooding, they had the flood of 2016, some have failed. are you more confident now than you have been in the past? >> well, that was the main thing i worked on is making sure that all our pumps in our system is at 100% and we have achieved that about six months ago. luckily, we did. now, as you know, once you run pumps they're slowly one or two go down and the main thing is to get parts quickly to restart them again. it's hard to keep up. we have 89 pump stations and most of them have multiple pumps in them. you have...

Drainage in jefferson parish and brought on three new pump stations to help better drain us. just on wednesday we received almost eight inches of rain, not even connected to this event, and basically with us at full pump capacity and actually at 99.3% capacity, we could fill up the louisiana super dome in 41 minutes from turf to the top of the dome in 41 minutes. charles: so at what point, mike, as enhanced as your systems have become, would you be overwhelmed? is there a certain amount of rain you think you would be overwhelmed? a certain storm is youring-- surge that you would be overwhelmed...

People out, stores open. most store owners say they intend to stay open throughout the storm. back to you. >> charles: thanks. jimmy cantrell from outside of new orleans joins us now. how are you doing? >> doing fine, sir. >> charles: everybody is bracing for this. perhaps the biggest test since katrina what are you telling folks in your parish? >> we're taking every precaution we can. we have 89 pump stations and everyone at 100% right now. we have issued sands bags, taken people out of harm's way. we closed some roads because of high water. all the people are evacuating. we hope we have ever...

Diagnosis. is there a cure? that's for another day. good morning, welcome to "early start," i'm dave briggs. >> and i'm christine romans, tuesday, may 28th5:00 a.m. in the east. tornadoes keep oncoming, 449 reported in the month of may. the latest target, dayton, ohio, two tornadoes touching down monday night. 3 miles and 30 minutes apart. dayton has lost power to water plants and pump stations. officials are now asking citizens to conserve water. 64,000 customers are without electricity. snowplows were brought in to move debris out of the streets. >> i heard the whistles, like a train was com...