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Case, one thing to tell from the live shot is, just sheets and sheets of water, and we have been watching this come down for hours, the new orleans is a bowl. as they developed there they drained a lot of wetlands they settled, the earth settled there, if you will, bringing city below sea level, and the levee system protects it the levee system has been fortified since katrina. the authorities here expresses confidence in the levee system that is now being tested to a great extent. but that levee system is getting tested but you still have rain from the top, they have a pump system to get the ...

Is the damage caused a load imbalance. and that caused a catastrophic failure of the entire power grid for new orleans. what i can tell you from being out here. it was quite an abundance of rain. more than i have seen in other hurricanes covering these things in the past. the wind was stiff, jaw wards of 80 miles per hour. but what was remarkable is sheets and sheets of rain that came through. particularly significant for new orleans, most of new orleans is like a bowl. it's below sea level. they are reliant on the pump system to act like a bilge pump in a boat and get water back out into the ...

-- it was dry, i was wondering now, tobin talked about the fact that pump system in new orleans it can eradicate an inch of water per hour, the rain is coming down faster. you walk around robert, are you seeing localized flooding? what are you seeing water-wise. reporter: 45 minutes ago when we left mississippi river to come here, probably almost a mile we drove back in, i started to see, main drag in downtown was water coming up about 4 inches, here in the quarter, depends on where you are, right now you see puddling and pooling on the side, and debris in the background. stuff ripped apartmen...

Water are key because new orleans is below sea level. the problem with it is we have so much rain with the sheets and sheets of rain that's anticipated that this amount of rain greater than 3 inches an hour is going to overwhelm the pump system. but it stand to reason that you have got significant flooding in new orleans despite the protection from the levee system. unable to stop the rain water from coming in. outside of the levee system we know the flooding has been significant. where the storm surge was driven in by the hurricane in port pushan. ashley: rick reichmuth, what do you have for ...

Gets or the top there is another measure that can stop that water from coming into new orleans. they are confident as far as tidal surges or storm surges. what they are not confident about is the rain, that it's not overloading the pump system. we have -- -- we know two didn't parishes in which the levees were over the top. one is jean lafite. but it's still too rough and too dark. ashley: the people on that boat,