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Credit card will save $0.15 per gallon shoppers who use a wal-mart gift card save $0.10 a gallon. >> some parts of louisiana could see up to 2 feet of rain by the end of this week as slow moving isaac continues to drench that region putting much pressure on some of those levees there. specifically this 18 mile long one in plaquemines parish. ken, are you with us? >> i am here. thank you very much for having me this morning. >> this changed a lot over the last 7 years. is that because the storm wasn't as strong or because of the improvements? >> the system is designed to protect against a 100 y...

Hour, the fate of new orleans can rest on the system of levees and flood gates designed to protect the city from the coastal waters in the mississippi river. since hurricane katrina hit 7 years ago, to the day, folks, we are only a couple of hours shy-- the system has been repaired, modernized at a cost of nearly $1 billion tax dollars. it is not sure at this time whether or not the upgraded 24 pump stations will be able to keep up with the heavy rainfall that isaac might drop. it's a slow-moving storm. right now the national hurricane center saying 7 miles per hour, moving north. big. 200 mil...

Are going to be an expectation. >> all right. john young, thank you very much. the president of jefferson parish here in this area. thank you so much. let me go back to craig, one observation i can share here, at least when i've been talking with local authorities, if they are a parish president or someone from the army corps of engineers like ken holder, one of the criticisms was that a lot of local officials at the time, even then president george w. bush, the fema chief at that time, were seen as inept and people reacted after the storm came through. i can certainly say that just about ever...

Drains to remove obstructions. so we're ready. >> reporter: okay. what is this shelter situation in your area? you had the mandatory evacuation, not all communities have had a mandatory evacuation? >> right. well, and again, jefferson par sish a very large parish. just to clarify that, we have only had a mandatory evacuation for those communities outside of the levee protection system you were talking about with ken. that's about 9,000 people. we have grand isle and grand point, those are mandatory evacuations. some people chose to heed that and some chose to stay and hunker down. i think we h...

It makes landfall later tonight as a category 1 hurricane in southeast louisiana. tamron? >> reporter: rafael, thank you so very much. isaac will put new orleans new $15 billion levee system to the test for the first time since katrina. one major problem that we are telling you about, the levee is only eight feet well above the six-foot storm surge expected in some areas. ken holder is with the army corps of engineers. ken, i want to bring you in here, it is interesting, what we experienced, we started the show ten minutes ago with a band of rain that came through. and you say that this break ...