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That's another major story line. then you have the city of the new orleans, which energy, the largest energy provider, has lost all transmission lines. there's no power there. they say without power, they're trying to find a pathway to restore power for using backup generator for everyone that's on. they warned going into the situation it could have been a matter of weeks before they fully restore power. one other point, jacob, i'd like to make, regarding water and sewage. the sewage and water board for new orleans, their pumping stations, many of them may have sustained critical damage. why i...

The stations, but those pumping stations take a lot of power. but prime power from the corp engineers have big generators and should be able to get that back online. >> sense is of how well we'll be able to respond to this emergency. i go et the feeling that from when you had to deal with hurricane katrina, i'm from florida, we had hurricane wilma that year, from then to now we have a different picture of just how important professionalized emergency management really is, and what it's like when you don't have that in place. we can see the difference now. i wonder what your sense is of how wel...

>> it looks like they have that the worry is they said we are very confident in the pumping stations. but what they could not account for was there rainfall directly into the city of new orleans 10 feet above sea level basically it is a bowl shape and that's a problem you can keep the gulf of mexico out with the levees and make hard to train out but the rain that fell hear that pumps are able to handle half an inch per hour we were getting upwards of three or 4 inches throughout the if one —- afternoon and early evening. >> explain where you are right now. are you near any type of flooding o...

Far? >> at this point it looks like the levy is doing a fine job. there are two breaches that are causing problems right now, one in la feet and one in plaqueman's parish. they have water rushing in. there are a couple hundred people who stayed behind they're told to move out because they can't slow the water down there either. the pumping stations that surround the city, move the water from the canals into the mississippi river or lake pontchartrain. there are new pumps in some areas as well and that's keeping the water out of the bowl that is new orleans below sea level. >> jay gray reportin...

If you look back across the jackson square, this old oak tree was ripped apart and scattered across the french quarter. we're seeing trees down across the city right now, you're talking about the power outages, that could last for up to 72 hours. these have been rooftops have been lifted off businesses in. homes cutting a shopping, area a huge portion of baton rouge's been pulled away. windows are shattered. this city, has been battered by ida. again the rain is continuing to fall here. there is been standing water, in the french, quarter which is the highest area in the new orleans. we have s...