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It makes landfall later tonight as a category 1 hurricane in southeast louisiana. tamron? >> reporter: rafael, thank you so very much. isaac will put new orleans new $15 billion levee system to the test for the first time since katrina. one major problem that we are telling you about, the levee is only eight feet well above the six-foot storm surge expected in some areas. ken holder is with the army corps of engineers. ken, i want to bring you in here, it is interesting, what we experienced, we started the show ten minutes ago with a band of rain that came through. and you say that this break ...

Thomas, you see another band. we're feeling the impact of the outer bands of isaac. we have been feeling it for the last few hours. this clear shot you see right now n the next 24 hours, that will not be the case. the few folks i see milling about, trying to see what is happening here in the french quarter. those people will be hunkered down like the rest. it is about the pump system. will this area be not under water, but suffering the impacts. we will have to see what happens there. i have spoken to a lot of people. there is concern that the ground is saturated. they had an immense amount of...