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Higher ground, but they are waiting to start moving this convoy in to the neighborhood here in leak city. you get a sense of -- how all of this will work and some of the trucks that will be used. these covered trucks. we're in an open-air truck but this one here we've seen over the last couple of days the soldiers transporting evacuees putting them in these types of vehicles, getting them to higher ground here along interstate 45. and generally there have been either a number of buses that have been moving evacuees to shelters or ho tto higher ground they keep going back for more. we've seen t...

Jesse is part of a group of people who tried to rescue those who may be trapped in their homes. what can you tell me right now? >> iage of the got back in my truck and going to take a nice hot shower but the good news is, we saved about, me personally, i've seen about 60 rescues today including about 30 animals. so that's good hsus. so tar, we haven't had any casualties that i know of. >> let me ask you, what made you decide to go out to help. >> i similar between the parishes and i was watching the water all day yesterday and finally when we got the surge at 1:00, 1:30 last night, i sat at th...

Road on the levee and we launched the boat from the surface road. >> and i imagine people were just absolutely beyond relief to see you there to help them out? >> oh, absolutely. we -- after we finished braithwaite park which is the first subdivision on the north side of plaquemines on the east bank, we we were headed down highway 39 and there was a family of five t 5 on a trailer with about one foot left before they would go under. they were screaming away. >> let me ask you, were you in a part of the area that was under the mandatory evacuation? >> yes. yes, ma'am. >> you were? i'm sorry. i ...