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Here forward, because it's hard to see any water levels rising in your given neighborhood. we do know there was a flash flood emergency issued for about 20 different areas of new orleans in the south shore area. so people were asked to seek higher ground there very, very late on sunday night. the levees, though, and the floodgates seem to be holding. this was not necessarily an issue of storm surge causing flooding here in the new orleans area. this is just relentless rainfall that's causing flooding in some areas. but the good news is that according to the flood risk and flood management auth...

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...

Little bit into the streets of the french quarter, and we caught up with some of this flooding going on right here. we've also been speaking to the southeast louisiana flood protection agency, and they're telling us that they're very confident, as we get another really intense swipe of wind coming down the street here, so bear with me. they're telling us they are very confident that the system of levees, floodgates, and surge gates is going to work very well, that it's going to withstand this storm because they have spent between the army corps of engineers and other agencies, spent between $1...

Look at all these 2 x 4s. the wood. this is going to be a real danger as the wind keeps coming back. and then we'll show you down this street here. take a look. this street could get flooded soon. just spoke with officials with the southeast louisiana flood protection authority. speaking with them most of the day today. they tell us that, yes, they're concerned about this area. breaking all sorts of records. as far as the storm surge, they think that this system is going to hold because it's a much different system than it was when hurricane katrina came here 16 years ago. they told me that fo...