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1800 lives with it. the priority for new orleans at this point in time is the pump system. we have been getting about three to four inches of rain a minute. the pump system which was fortified after katrina with the help of the army corps of engineers, $15 billion project, it wasn't just the levees they focused on, they focused on the pump system. the pump system cannot keep up with this amount of rain that isaac is dumping on this city. that is the focus right now. part two of the focus are those people in this region without power. in new orleans alone we're talking about around 480,000 or s...

Welcome back to "news nation." we've got new details in as the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal has just taken a tour with fema chief craig fugate. 5,000 people in shelters right now. hundreds of thousands still without power. they're assessing the decision to make a decision on the levee if to intentionally breach the levee. the army corps of engineers would be involved in this. this levee we are focusing so heavily on where people where maybe as many as 50 to 100 trapped in their homes is not part of the $15 billion project used to fortify the leb vees and improve the pump system to prote...

Would be the best thing to happen to new orleans. that would give them some time to get some of this water out. the pump system can only remove about an inch of water an hour. we're looking at three to four inches an hour. as i said yesterday, i don't have to do the math for you. you know what that means. right now i'm on the famous bourbon street area. french quarter. bourbon street just a short ways away. we were up last night watching this storm. and it literally just laid its hand over this region. and that hand continues to smack down at this hour. you mentioned plaquemines parish. we're ...

Places they thought might be safer, have headed that way. we have a new threat to report. just getting this in. tornado warnings in effect for waveland, louisiana. there are tornado warnings in effect for a great portion of this area, northeastern orleans parish, in southeast louisiana, southeastern louisiana also on the list. southern mississippi, i'm just getting this information in. we are talking about the threat of the high winds, of course, the threat of flooding and now we're talking about tornadoes which are often seen in hurricanes in this kind of tropical weather. right now, andrea, ...

The news nation is following two big stories right now. in less than 24 hours isaac, which was just upgraded to a category 1 hurricane, is expected to slam into the louisiana gulf coast with flooding rains and damaging winds. meantime, the delayed republican national convention is minutes away from starting for the day. it began with the official role call of the states to nominate mitt romney for president. good day to everyone there. i'm tamron hall live in new orleans. right now we are watching another of the outer bands of hurricane isaac rolling in. i just got information from the army co...