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If something sits over you at 2 miles an hour, we're ready for it. the impacts have been less than expected, but we're prepared for what's coming our way. >> i'm sure you are. i do understand that the pump systems responsible for keeping new orleans dry, that they have suffered some technical failures this year. is that a concern as the rainfall comes your way? >> well, that's always a concern. but what we have received over the past couple of days, we have been more than capable of handling. of course we have been preparing the entire season for a particular event like this. we feel pretty go...

Isaac came in and kind of --. (inaudible). >> it did not stay very long. it pounded us and pounded us and pounded us but he came through here, and he left. we still got a lot of rain. >>shepard: your cell phone breaking up, mayor, but if viewer whose are not aware you look at the states of mississippi and louisiana, biloxi is on the far eastern side. the folks on the western side, around waveland, the storm sat over them for a while. >>guest: they got it worse than we did. they were on the bad side. we were in the middle of it. we came out pretty good, i think.

so i want people to understand that this is not over. response and recovery efforts will be an ongoing operation. and i urge americans in affected areas to continue to listen for the guidance and direction of their state and local officials. before the storm made landfall, the department of homeland security and fema worked very closely with our state and local partners as well as volunteer organizations to preposition supplies and teams of first responders along the hurricane's projected track. and the american red cross opened shelters in communities across the region. i want to th...

to countless communities where irene, now a tropical storm, is causing catastrophic flooding this is margaretville, a small village in the catskill mountains, about two and a half hours south of the city. within the past hour president obama addressed the government's response to this natural da disaster. >> i do want to underscore that power may be out for some time, perhaps days. i want to make sure dhs, fema and other agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground. >> reporter: irene is now over central vermont and moving north at 25 miles per hour, it's ...