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Engineers sealed off two of those canals. giant gates came down. they take nearly an hour just to go all the way down. and molly, the idea there is that, again, if you have this big surgeon at lake pontchartrain, it would push up into the canals and inundate new orleans, the french quarter, all of those areas, so those gates in two of the canals completely closed to keep the storm surge out. that is the idea, molly. molly: and what's the status of the city's pumping stations? are they ready? >> yeah, the mayor says they are ready you know, there are a lot of people here that are really wonderi...

So i'd feel more comfortable if we could create a little wall there. >> oil rigs and oil platforms have been evacuated in the gulf along with residents in low-lying areas mostly south of the city. another big concern are the pumping stations described as tired and underfunded by new orleans mayor. 11 of those 120 pumping stations don't work and the ones that do are as old as calvin coolidge according to the mayor and easily overwhelmed. this city has flooded several times already this year including last week and this storm of course is expected to bring a big surge and a lot of rain. the good...

It is a barrier island. a narrow barrier island south of us. grand isle, louisiana, where storm surge has inundated some residential areas. you can see from the video that those homes are up on still its. they are elevated because the area is so prone to flooding. hopefully not much loss of property there. it was under mandatory evacuation orders. so hopefully most of of the people there heeded those warnings and got out before the surge got too high. but there has been a lot of talk about pumping stations and the different gates that have been put in post katrina to keep this city safe. we wa...

Being 7, 8, 9 feet in some places, have you dozens of communities that line the lake itself. and that is why th live levy. if my photographer continues panning that way. look how close it is to beautiful neighborhoods and businesses. so, that would keep the surge from hopefully innun dating those spots. now, across town, not far from here, we want to show you video of new infrastructure that was put in following hurricane katrina. you have a lot of canals that go right into metro new orleans. and giant gates and pumping stations were put in post katrina. today the army corps of

Before completely empty. officials estimate many home the damaged in the houston area. across the region more than 72,000 people have been rescued. as of right now 47 deaths tied to the storm. in beaumont, the water system is out. floods have disabled the pumping stations and a hospital had had to transfer its patients and shut down. on top of all of that, there is ir ma. a category 3 hurricane churning across the open atlantic getting stronger heading toward, well, no one knows exactly for sure. and that is a serious problem. we are watching all of this but we do have some breaking news this ...