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Rain. new orleans averages 62 inches of rain a year. they've already had 65 inches and we're not through august. can they take 15 to 20 inches of rain and can they withstand the flooding that is almost certainly going to occur in the streets? we're just getting to the heavy part of this. again, some areas in downtown new orleans heavily damaged already. >> it looks bad where you are. thank you for the report and thank you for the great work. we'll get back to you as soon as we can. let's go live to baton rouge with a briefing on the storm. >> you should know the entirety of the louisiana natio...

Of rain a year. already 65 inches. so this is going to really add to some of the record totals. we also just found out a short time ago, jim, two sewage pumping stations east and west banks of new orleans have been affected by power outages. so that could lead to some sewage backups. that's another problem they'll have to be dealing with in the coming hours. but they are going to address those sewage backups with a generator at the pumping stations. i'm going to swing down here. you can see again just the violent nature of this wind and rain as this has really picked up in the last hour or so....

Already doing it, like right here. >> that's taken a lot of big fish. there are some deeper holes here that we can work. >> you tell me, i'll follow you. between the 1940s and 2013, the los angeles river was officially not a river but a concrete flood control channel. but thanks to the persistence of environmental activists, it's once again legally a river. this man is famous for fly fishing in it. this is the fly in fly fishing. >> there you go. >> do it again? >> yep. you're a natural. >> this is amazing. this is the first time. another environmental miracle about the l.a. river is that ther...

On a small scale, it's here. >> there's some deeper holes here. >> reporter: you tell me. between the 1940s and 2013, the los angeles worker was fishing. it's once again, into a river. it's famous for fly fishing. straight up and straight back. just like that. >> reporter: this is the fly in fly fishing. ready? here we go. >> there you go. >> reporter: do it again? >> yep. you're a natural. >> reporter: this is amazing. >> first time. >> reporter: another environmental here is the l.a. river, is if there is water in it at all. los angeles averages about 12 inches of rain a year. >> this sectio...

To the north. take a rook at this. last 12 hours it's really fallen apart. the shear, the you were level wind that has been moving through very strongly has ripped this thing apart. that said, there is a ton of moisture in this area. notice it looks like it's moving towards the east. it's not. it's going to move towards the west. a lot of the moisture has moved off towards the east which isn't good news. it settled all that moisture right back over the islands and a lot of it over the big islands that in some spots 40 inches of rain all across the eastern side of the big island. the western si...