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Scary. >> is it fair to say they were scoffing at you sort of and making you sound like an alarmist and were you trying to tell them about your own personal history and that they should take heed? >> absolutely. i know from experience that once, even a voluntary evacuation is nothing to play around with. it's just serious. everything happens so fast and people go into panic and then thois of people need to be rescued and they wait days as more people need to be rescued. it's just horrible. >> kate, what does this mean for your life? you have a baby on the way. you have a toddler. you've now lo...

Katrina and for louisiana. it's being marked by more rain and danger. tropical storm harvey is bearing down on that state. eight expected to make landfall tonight. there's already a lot of water on the ground, and the situation is worse than we even knew. joining us is louisiana governor john bell edwards. governor, thank you for joining us. you were telling -- >> thank you and good morning, chris. >> always a pleasure to speak with you, governor. you were telling the producer you had to rescue people in southwest louisiana. what is the situation? >> at about 6:00 last night, local officials t...

After katrina i realized anything can happen. we were in a very low flood zone. we flooded and i lost my house so i wasn't taking any chances. i have an 18-month-old and i'm six months pregnant so i was ready to leave. >> oh my gosh, kate. how is your 18-month-old doing? >> he's doing okay. we've been staying with family so he's good. has no idea thank goodness. >> and so when you decided to evacuate before things got bad what did your neighbors in dickinson, texas, say to you? >> they've never flooded before in the 30 years they've been there, this is just like any other storm, it's just goin...

Who helped rescue the folks in this neighborhood last night and said this is nothing like katrina, nothing like what you're seeing out of texas but this is the first visual example we have of the damage of harvey in lake charles, about 400 to 500 homes flooded behind me as a drainage canal overflowed with all of the rainfall we've seen. the concern is how much more rain will fall? we have a respite from it now but 10 to 15 inches of rain have already fallen in this area in the last two days. we're expecting 6 to 10 inches in other pockets in this area in the next two days. officials are asking...

To dump a lot more rain over houston, and louisiana. cnn meteorologist chad myers has the latest rainfall totals, and forecast. not the news they wanted on the 12-year anniversary of katrina that more rain could be making its way to the gulf. >> more rain will, not maybe, absolute chris. this is just another devastating part of this story. there is the center of harvey right now, moving into the gulf of mexico. it will eventually get up here somewhere around beaumont port arthur. what is that going to do? that may dry out the west side of the eye or the center of the storm, only 45 miles per h...