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Landfall yet again. that state is setting up its emergency plans exactly 12 years to the day that hurricane katrina made landfall. let's go to tom in the severe weather center. tom, what should louisiana, and specifically new orleans, expect? >> the job for the state and local services is to start to get ready for areas north of houston and east of houston, including a good portion of southwest louisiana. the color purple or any city in the u.s., if they get 10 inches, they're going to flood. we've seen that in southwestern louisiana. this is the size of the state of kentucky, so when you look...

They're overflowed. the bayous are running like streams and raging rivers, and we're still getting pummeled. so the big worry here is, when is this going to stop so that the bayous can do their jobs and actually drain this water and empty out into the gulf of mexico. fred? >> my goodness. rosa, you are getting hit again with more bands of, you know, another band of rain, we're going to check in with our meteorologist tom sader, we know rain is in the forecast another few days. here's another big problem. so many roads are so impassable that emergency assets can't even get through to try to get...

Es special withly the wands moving from the south. wants to keep the water inland. because it's flat, fans itself out and an issue with stag innocent water but first we're worried what's coming oun. down. making its way towards the coastline back over water and in the next, well, by tomorrow afternoon. >> boy, so many problems resulting from all of this. already thus far something like up to, what, 20 inches of rain that has fallen and up to another 20 more inches before friday. >> yes. >> and even when waters recede, sometime what's it takes with it are portions of roadways. >> absolutely. >...

Through the water. i'm not sure exactly where they're going, but we do know that there are areas in downtown houston that are being used as shelters. so i'm wondering if -- if that's where they're going. but, again, fred, take a look around me. for the people who know houston, have been to houston, been, perhaps, to this spaghetti warehouse. i'm getting tweets about people that have eaten there. take a look at it now. it is literally in the middle of a raging river. unbelievable pictures here, fred, as we continue to cover this story, and also right now we just got a little lull in the rain. w...

Picked up two, two and a half feet of rain. >> extraordinary. in such a short amount of time. even worse, that more is on the way. tom sader, thank you so much. we'll check back. this breaking news out of texas continues. awaiting a live update from the governor out of austin, texas. we'll bring that to you as soon as it happens. we'll be right back. no splashing! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah. it's nice that every bad decision doesn't have to be permenant! ditch verizon. k...