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In towards the city of new orleans. here is the thing. then everybody starts to wonder how does the storm surge impact the levee. right now this region we're expecting three to five feet of storm surge but as it comes pack over it has the potential to overtop the eastern edge of the levee on the mississippi river and then what happens to the water? it starts to flow backwards toward the city of new orleans. it basically becomes funneled and pushed all the way back. the concern then is if those water levels, jake, could get to 20 feet or higher, the levees will be overtopped and that is when yo...

7:00 a.m. so the coast will be seeing a lot of heavy rain, at least, at times, and then that storm surge will be a big part of this story. no surprise, we're looking hurricane watches and warnings up and down the coast. the storm surge, widespread three to six feet. some areas getting up to nine, 10, maybe 11 feet, gillian. that will be one of the biggest concerns the next few hours. gillian: adam, thanks for that. we'll check back in with you later. eric: president trump has approved a predisaster declaration for 17 louisiana parishes ahead of hurricane nate's landing. officials telling 2000 ...

Water, and then plenty of drinking water. so we are bringing this back on much quicker. if we had waited until the river receded, and waited to go in and look at that -- at that pumping system that is totally under water. it would be day and weeks. so this is brilliant with these engineers. we've had private industry. we've had city employees. they're doing a great job. >> mayor ames, i appreciate that. and i know there are a lot of people that will add your town to their prayer list tonight so that the crest happens quickly and it is lower than had been anticipated. thank you so much. best wi...

Rob schmitt is live in rich mopped where the water is only unfortunately getting higher. good morning, rob. rob: yeah. it could get higher for the next 24 hours. guys, good morning to you. the reservoir the rivers are the story. the skies have cleared out. a lot of houston and areas of southeast texas have really dried out and dried out fast. some areas are still inundated with water and that water will continue to rise. we are talking about beaumont, port arthur. that's the big story today that area. extreme eastern texas right on the louisiana border. the issue there is the naches river runs...

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