Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161006:17:30:00
>> it was, but in the gulf of mexico, it was a category 5. so when bay st. louis and pass christian and biloxi got blasted with the 25-foot wall of water, that's what all the damage came from. the water came up lake pontchartrain, failed on the levees on the back side, not the river side, on the back side where lake pontchartrain is attached to new orleans and that's where new orleans flooded. so the surge came from the previous strength of the storm when it was in the loop current, before it lowered itself down to category 4. we don't think about katrina as a wind damage storm. there was some...