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Proactively fortify and expand the levee system. they stabilized barriers, reinforced walls with steel. they overhauled pumping stations to reduce flooding. they built a $1 billion surge wall at a key inflection point that extends more than 2 miles long and more than 26 feet high. to avoid the scenario that unfolded 16 years to the day when storm surges overtook the barrier, and it worked. the system is not perfect. there are many who think the erosion of the swampland is something that has to be demt with as well. civil engineers argue there's more to be done to fortify the city, but we manag...

Was their only option to try to get some fuel. i talked to them, one gentleman told me if i have to drive from here to timbuktu i will just to get that bass and he wants to help other people with it. here's what he told me. >> we're just trying to help our families, friends, neighbors, whoever we can get some gas in the truck so we can find some ice, water, food, suv like that. louisiana strong. louisiana pride, and i was taught by my mother and father to look after one another. the human race is all we have. >> reporter: that's a good message obviously for everybody, andry. entergy engineers ...

We don't use it very often but it has a peak capacity of 19,140 cubic feet per second. you are talking about roughly 8.5 million gallons per minute. what that does is allow us to rapidly remove water from inside the system so that the municipal drainage can keep up with the street drainage. it is a complicated system of checks and balances so to speak. what it does when we have to run it and this is only the second time the flood authority has ever had to run this thing for a storm event, it allows us to get the level of protection that the federal government designed and provided us. >> it is...

Looking around, checking out damage, but it is infrastructure that is the biggest problem. we're talking about power and communications. the at&t mobile network is gone. the verizon network seems to be holding up and that is what we're using right now to broadcast. but currently what is most note able is what is not there. people and vehicular traffic. while i think the physical part of the city was spared, but other major issues, debris, tree, branchs, things like that the infrastructure you don't see, sewage, pumping stations, the electrical grid, that is what is really taking a beating righ...

We're still getting wind gusts and torrential rain for several hours. i want to show you what's some of the wind earlier did, if you look back across where this old oak tree has been ripped and scattered across the french quarter. in across the city right now. they talk about the power outages that will last for up to 72 hours. reeves to been rift off of businesses and homes including the shopping area, a huge portion of that roof's been pulled away. windows are shattered. this city has been battered by ida and again the rain is continuing to fall here. there is been standing water in the high...