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First responders embedded with the local teams here and throughout long island, nassau, rockland counties all of those have suffered some form of loss. we want to make sure ow crews were on the the ground. we also have pumping systems in the case taking care of the subways removing the water physically. and i want to thank everyone involved last night. but our transit workers are heroes. especially all of the bus operation that had to be deployed to take people spr stations to where they needed to go. so then extraordinary rescue operation just a shoe short hours ago. moments ago i was on the ...

And as a result 80% of new orleans flooded as much as 15 feet. it shouldn't have by the dade. and everything that happened after was a result of that. that in turn led to all the human misery and suffering that we saw. and it's a large part of why the aftermath of the storm were so devastating. and after that the state and local government decided to do something about it. every level of government, and ngos and citizens understood, that a failure like that could never be able to happen again. the federal government spent billions of dollars to fortify the levees and barriers. they reinforced ...

Orleans has created a number of things to prevent the flooding we saw 16 years ago. some of them are levies, some are gates, drainage and pumping systems. it's a multifaceted system. some is new, some of it is old. some are dependant on electricity, which is problematic. but here is an interesting thing, joshua. because you protect a certain area, sometimes means that other areas are less protected. so there are some places looking to do some of these upgrades to prevent the flooding. this is a low-lying area, and those things haven't been approved or completed, some won't be done until 2024. ...

Power to get the pumping systems working and the water out, because we are below sea level in a lot of these areas and that is the concern. you look at the satellite imagery and things are weakening, right, and that's a good sign but the damage is already done in some of these areas and that's when the reality is going to set in on the sheer scope of this storm. we're still going to deal with flash flooding in southeastern louisiana, mississippi, alabama, even the florida panhandle. tornadoes will be imminent as well. the storm will left northward so tennessee and kentucky, the mid-atlantic an...

Stayed who have real faith in the walls that are around them in the flood walls and in the levees and the pumping systems. but that doesn't necessarily help rain, correct? when we're talking about in excess of 15 inches of rain, what would you say to those people that stayed? >> yeah, you got to be in a safe place because you think about the storm surge and the evacuations that took place and outside those levee systems, but that is a scary life-threatening amount of rainfall forecast. so you think about this area in red is 10 to 20 inches of rain. so our forecast for the center, you know, you...