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Restrictions so they can bring in fuel from out-of-state to some of these gas stations. the power may not be on for all of them until a week or more. so, the scenes that we're seeing here with these long lines will continue. martha: a lot of people want to know where the federal trucks are with gas can be their own pumping stations that we see the military use in many cases. they would like to see some federal help going to these areas. we'll get update on that and see if that kicks in. rick, see you later. bill: you find all these people driving around for hours looking for gas and often time...

And in slidell. increasing water levels are preventing the pumping stations from removing water as quickly as it comes in. coming back to our live shot i'd like to show you the mississippi river just to illustrate the strong storm surge that was associated with isaac before the storm arrived the usgs confirms that the storm surgery versed the flow of the mighty mississippi for almost 24 hours on tuesday. jon, back to you. jon: john a than that serrie. thank you. jenna: just want to go straight to janice dean for a little bit more on what we are expecting over the next several hours. >> reporte...

You to the aftermath of hurricane isaac, and what is going on there. we'll speak with a lot of people on what they're witnessing there. that from mayor landrieu, and the pumping stations, up to 15 inches of water remains there. the deputy mayor joins us to talk about it. good to have you with us here, and i'm glad to have you here. explain to all of us the major concerns in and around new orleans. is it still the surge of water? >> in our area, yes, outside the levee there is still water. the big problem is loss of electricity. we have about 157,000 residents still without power. and that is o...

This, thomas, just pushing water around, holding it in one area, when the wind shifted it would let it go in the other area. that other area happened to include slidell and one of the bayous you see behind me has come into this area. usually there are pumping stations that take this water and put it back out into lake pontchartrain, but those were overwhelmed. we had power outage it's as well. some of those may have failed temporarily with those power outages. we just don't know all that. you can see behind me here, some folks tried to put their cars at the highest point they could to keep the...

In pretty good shape. >> shepard: the pumping stations were below sea level including here. have to get the water out of here and put it somewhere. it has more of a mr. now than it did before. used to drain out now there is a place to go. >> when you get into whether it's a hurricane evacuation or flood fight like we had last spring. it's a team sport. we work very very closely not only with the city of new orleans, the state of louisiana it is in fact a multitiered response when you get into situations like this. so, we co-locate people in pump stations not only from the city of new orleans b...