CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown August 30, 2021 00:06:00
Well. the flooding that you're going to see probably here in the french quarter and elsewhere in new orleans is going to be a rainfall volume type of flooding. it likely will not be because of storm surge because the levee system here has been really heavily fortified since hurricane katrina in 2005. i've been talking with people from the flood protection system authority here in new orleans all day today. they are very confident that the levees, surge gates, floodgates -- those gates are closed by the way now. the levees are much higher than they were before hurricane katrina. let's move over...
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