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Tested there is confidence with the design and investment into the levees system but all of this water coming in new orleans is below sea level so when it comes in it stays they rely on the pump system to get it out but now they are overwhelmed by the volume of water coming in. they can handle little less than 1 inch per hour what was predicted is 3 inches per hour and we're certainly seeing a great deal of volume coming in and this really seems to be the peak of the intensity of wind and water and the wind gust is picking up right now it's like being sandblasted it's broken up into tiny parti...

As you know new orleans is a bowl, if you will, it is relying on the pump system when water comes street down like this to get water out. the pumps are working. a lot of pumps, some reports that three had failed, that means 96 pumps are still working. those pumps are good to clear less than an inch of water an hour, right now we're averaging about 3 inches of water. that is what was predicted. in terms of places where hurricane came ashore, you have major flooding, grand isle, houma. and we know in grand isle there is flooding because of the storm surge. and houma as well reports about major f...

With that particular wall. cameras looking down the street looking at the damage you have a levee system and the pump system allied of investment and smart people designing this intending to withstand a 100 year storm or a 1 percent chance to be hit with that storm there is a lot of confidence in the levee system from what we heard from public officials. but now it is getting its first major test. jon: teefifteen out there in the thick of it thank you. mississippi is feeling the impact of the storm bracing for potentially catastrophic damage for the latest they are we are live in gulfport. rep...

You can look at some of these traffic lights in the intersection. wow, this is a whopper of a gust coming through. you can see how these traffic lights are getting a workout. the palm trees up and down canal street here, i'd be very surprised if we get through this and don't see some of the palm trees snap off. one of the things my crew and i have been keeping an eye on throughout this process, there's a billboard up over my right shoulder here, and you can see that billboard, it's been rattling around, and now that bill withboard looks like it's ready to -- billboard looks like it's ready to ...

This point. but mostly a lot of water coming in right now. the reports of damage was a membrane of the roof. we know the barge is now drifting up the river on its own, unmanned. and a lot of sporadic damage so with all of this water coming in right now, it stands to reason the pump system will be overwhelmed. you have to imagine there will be significant flooding in the crescent city before this is over. that the life-threatening flooding right now are the areas hit by the storm surge already closer to the coast where we know the storm surge has come in as high as 16 feet. completely burying t...