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Kristin: several levees in louisiana overflowing in the wake-up call to storm barry prompting mandatory evacuations and part of the state and joining us now commander of the mississippi valley division of the army corps engineer major general richard kaiser. thank you for taking the time to talk to us. >> thanks for having me on. kristin: my pleasure. major general, reports of levees overflowing, but i went to be clear we have no reports of levees or breach at this point in time; correct? >> let me clarify if i can. you have a couple levees you have river levees and specifically like the missi...

Plaqupmines parish, we're 65 miles long. we have levees that border the mississippi river. we have levees that border the marsh. when this storm or anything occurs, we're always frightened about the back levees. they're smaller than river levees. but because of this high, unprecedented river that's been here nine months and are predicted three to five-foot storm surge, we're very concerned about some of the overtoppings of our river levees. that's got us a little -- sitting on pins and needles right now. >> that water has nowhere to go. i understand your situation. it's almost incorrectable wi...

Sir? >> thank you, chris. thank you for having us. a little background of plaquemines parish, we're 65 miles long. we have levees that border the mississippi river. we have levees that border the marsh. when this storm or anything occurs, we're always frightened about the back levees. they're smaller than river levees. but because of this high, unprecedented river that's been here nine months and are predicted three to five-foot storm surge, we're very concerned about some of the overtoppings of our river levees. that's got us a little -- sitting on pins and needles right now.

We'll show you that moment. also, axios' jonathan swan had an interview with jared kushner. what was said about his middle east peace plan and more. but first bill karins has a look at the forecast. >> good morning to you. over the weekend, numerous river levees failed on the mississippi and also areas from iowa to missouri. let's show you some of the pictures. you just imagine the amount of water. winfield was at risk with that. they had to do evacuations. burlington iowa, some of the downtown areas got flooded. and we want to show you aerial pictures on the arkansas river. we're watching cre...